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Nokia Siemens Networks acquires contract for maintenance of Shanghai Unicom networks.

Nokia Siemens Networks acquires contract for maintenance of Shanghai Unicom networks.

| May 10, 2011 | 1 Reply

Advertisements As the title suggest, Nokia-Siemens Networks seems to be making some headway into acquiring network build-out/maintenance contracts across the world. Not only are they significantly involved in the LTE build out being performed by LightSquared but they’ve just announced their involvement in maintaining the second-largest mobile operator in China. Hopefully they’ll become profitable in […]

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Qt app LinkedIn for Nokia Available at Ovi Store

Qt app LinkedIn for Nokia Available at Ovi Store

| May 10, 2011 | 15 Replies

Fahoum and S.A. have tipped us that LinkedIn for Nokia (made in Qt) is now available at Ovi Store. http://store.ovi.com/content/121603 Fahoum says, “it is amazingly fast and responsive”.   Advertisements

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Microsoft Close to Buying Skype? Deep integration into Windows, Windows Phone, XBox and Kinect?

Microsoft Close to Buying Skype? Deep integration into Windows, Windows Phone, XBox and Kinect?

| May 10, 2011 | 20 Replies

Bloomberg is reporting that Microsoft are looking to buy the internet calling company, Skype for a reported sum of over 7 Billion Dollars (initially expected around 8.5 Billion). This would make it the biggest acquisition after advertising company aQuantivefor 6 Billion in 2007 (though would have paled in comparison had they bought Yahoo! in 2008 […]

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Microsoft buys Skype, what does it mean for your upcoming Nokia WP7 device

Microsoft buys Skype, what does it mean for your upcoming Nokia WP7 device

| May 10, 2011 | 59 Replies

Wow!! whomever it was that stated you couldn’t bully your way into relevance with enough money was clearly wrong. Kara Swisher from AllThingsD has confirmed that Microsoft is on the brink of completing what would be nigh-on the most significant coup in recent history (Just above RIM’s ascquisition of TAT). It seems that tomorrow is […]

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Nokia Event: Athens, May 17th; Microsoft WP7.5/Mango Preview, May 24th

Nokia Event: Athens, May 17th; Microsoft WP7.5/Mango Preview, May 24th

| May 9, 2011 | 63 Replies

A couple of dates I thought you might want to put down your diary. The first one (seen above) shows that Nokia maybe holding supposed event maybe in Athens on May 17th. But at 8PM? That makes it 6PM GMT which isn’t all that bad if you consider this is usually the time that we […]

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Qt 5.0 in the pipeline- Symbian not mentioned anywhere

Qt 5.0 in the pipeline- Symbian not mentioned anywhere

| May 9, 2011 | 79 Replies

Lars Knoll over at Qt labs has just put up a post discussing the upcoming developments surrounding Qt. Seems that there’s a new, massive version of Qt on the way! While the technical information will probably be lost on many of us anyway, the most important takeaway is that there will be no legacy support […]

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RUMOURS: Turn by Turn Voice Navigation for Windows Phone 7.5/Mango and more!

RUMOURS: Turn by Turn Voice Navigation for Windows Phone 7.5/Mango and more!

| May 9, 2011 | 35 Replies

The Windows Phone blogs (ah yes there are some) are bubbling with the news of MORE Windows Phone 7.5/Mango features coming other than what was already made official. As Mango ripens, more capabilities might be added. These were revealled in an hour-long podcast from WPDevpodcast, featuring Director of Developer Experience, Microsoft’s Brandon Watson. http://wpdevpodcast.com/2011/05/08/episode-015-winning-with-watson/ Let’s […]

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Nokia losing smartphone homeground to Apple, potentially even more

Nokia losing smartphone homeground to Apple, potentially even more

| May 8, 2011 | 49 Replies

Following up on our recent IDC related articles, here is another one. One that is somewhat troubling to read for Nokia fans. Nokia lost it’s number one position as smartphone vendor in Europe, traditionally one of the strongest markets for Nokia. What do the figures say then? Let’s start with some history and the numbers […]

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Free Form Widgets – another photoshop fail? Or sneak peek into PR3.0/Belle?

Free Form Widgets – another photoshop fail? Or sneak peek into PR3.0/Belle?

| May 8, 2011 | 30 Replies

As a follow up to the Symbian Free Form Widgets (that we thought were going to be a part of Symbian^3’s PR3.0/Belle/UI overhaul update. From the tiny little images, we now have them in full size. http://www.nokia-smartphone.de/n8/ Apart from the clock working, the “widgets” are really just link placements. I don’t know why they would […]

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