Today brings news of yet another round of capital-intensive cost-cutting for the challenged mobile phone maker Nokia: the company today announced that it would be transferring smartphone assembly from factories in Hungary, Finland and Mexico, and putting the operation in Asia.
Chrome, Meet Android: Google Releases Beta Version Of Chrome For Mobile OS
For years, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) watchers have wondered why the company has used a completely separate browser on its Android software while maintaining a separate browser project in Chrome. Those days are over: Google has released a beta version of Chrome for Android, uniting two very important projects and raising questions about the...
ITC Said To Favor Barnes & Noble In Patent Dispute With Microsoft
For the most part, Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) has found the mobile industry willing to bow to its patent-licensing strategy. Barnes & Noble (NYSE: BKS) decided to dig in and fight and it could be poised to score a point.
Was Google’s Disastrous January A Passing Storm Or Sign Of Things To Come?
It’s a little stunning to contemplate how wrong things have gone for Google (NSDQ: GOOG) in just the first month of 2012, as the company hopes to put a disastrous January in the rear-view mirror with perhaps another tear-jerking Super Bowl ad this Sunday. Larry Page and Sergey Brin haven’t turned into Jim...
Canalys: Worldwide Smartphone Shipments Overtake PC/Tablet Market
Even if you throw the exploding tablet market in with the staid PC market, shipments of smartphones surpassed those of “client PCs” in 2011, a milestone for the computer industry.
U.S. Government Developing Android Phones, Promises Quick Software Updates
The U.S. government likes to do things its own way. Along those lines, it has decided to embrace Android as a smartphone platform for soldiers and other government employees because of the control it can exert over the software, which in turn underscores how much control Android partners have over the software.
Google TV goes Android 3.2, next up Ice Cream Sandwich
Google TV devices from Sony received an update based on Android Honeycomb 3.2 this week, and Logitech's Revue will be updated in the near future. This is the last major update for the platform before Ice Cream sandwich, which is rumored to come before year's end.
Living In A Smartphone World: Apple Number-Three Among ALL Mobile Players
It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position in mobile sales. After all, Apple was only making smartphones and Nokia was still leading in that still-niche category, as well...
More Android Forking? Disney Teams Up With Japan’s Docomo For 2 New Phones
Disney (NYSE: DIS) Mobile, the short-lived U.S. MVNO that found a new lease of life in Japan through a Softbank JV in 2008, has now launched two new Android handsets in partnership with NTT Docomo, the country’s biggest carrier.
BuzzFeed Bulks Up Again, With a Tech Section Run by Gizmodo’s Matt Buchanan
Another well-known writer for a site that used to specialize in other people's writing. This one says he'll write about "tech for humans."
Samsung: Smartphones Up 30 Percent But You Have To Guess How Many We Sold
Samsung may be king of the Android smartphone world, but it’s playing hard to get. The company declined to release smartphone sales figures late Thursday in reporting record earnings, but it is clearly faring better than some Android competitors against Apple’s iPhone juggernaut.
Tablets: Apple’s Lead Narrows Among Widening Field Of Android Makers
With the tablet market now overtaking PC sales, all eyes are on which platform will dominate this next generation of computing devices. A report out today from Strategy Analytics said that for Q4 it was Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), the company that effectively created the market for tablets two years...
