We knew it would get worse before it starts to get better, but the first-quarter results that deluged the industry this week pretty much confirmed earlier warnings from industry-leaders such as Nokia and Samsung that the handset market could contract by 10% or more this year. The worst of the pain should already be over, though, with [...]
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Nokia’s CEO claims that the company is ‘actively looking’ to get into the computer market, possibly through creating its own family of mobile computers. On the face of it, and given the success Nokia has been enjoying in the smartphones and mobile Internet services markets, this seems to be a canny move. It would also underline Nokia’s vision of [...]
I have to admit to being slightly bemused by Microsoft‘s announcement yesterday that it’s planning to set up its own retail stores business. The company has done exceedingly well in getting its software and solutions preloaded onto many device manufacturers’ products, from computers to games consoles, and by making the best use of alternative distribution [...]
If reports from the blogosphere are to be believed, Nokia is about to enter the application store marketplace, as it seeks to replicate the success rivals such as Apple and RIM have had in getting new mobile handset applications to market and on devices in record time and in huge numbers. The Finnish vendor has [...]
Rumours continue to fly thick and fast that Microsoft is poised to launch its own range of mobile handsets, based on its own Windows Mobile OS platform. However, executives continue to deny outright that any such plans are in hand. Given that such a strategy would, at best, annoy many of the handset vendors that partner with [...]
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