Nokia Corp. intends to boost its mobile ad business through the acquisition of Enpocket, which provides cell phone marketing technology and services to advertisers, Web publishers and carriers.
Nokia revealed its new online multimedia strategy on Wednesday, and showed mobile users the door. It also unveiled a range of new phones for playing games and music, and demonstrated a new user interface for future multimedia phones.
Nokia has agreed to license Microsoft's new PlayReady digital-rights-management technology, giving the service providers it works with a greater choice of copy protection software.
Nokia Corp. held onto its dominant share of the global mobile phone market during the second quarter as Motorola Inc. tumbled from second to third place despite brisk sales in emerging markets, according to reports released Thursday.
While smartphones have been the craze in China's tech market, feature phones are still helping to drive Internet usage in the country, especially with search. A case in point is Easou, a mobile Internet search company with more than 200 million users in the country, many of whom are using less advanced handsets from Nokia and local Chinese brands.
A flock of major smartphone and tablet announcements are expected over the next week from Nokia and Microsoft, Motorola, Amazon and Apple that will give us a glimpse of how vendors see the future of mobile computing.
A U.K. start-up specializing in offering Internet telephone service via certain Nokia Wi-Fi-enabled cell phones is making few friends with mobile operators, signaling tension ahead in the high-stakes mobile-phone industry.
With three new Wi-Fi technologies set to bolster VoIP quality, Cisco this week will announce partnerships with Nokia to build dual-mode VoIP and cellular handsets, and with Intel to create VoIP-enabled notebook PCs.
Nokia chose Delhi, India, for Thursday's launch of seven mobile phones for emerging markets, including two intended for shared use by families or entire villages.
Mobile bloggers using a new version of Nokia's Lifeblog software can automatically attach location, time and relevant calendar information to photos, videos and audio clips, Nokia said Wednesday. The new software, Lifeblog 2.0, will also allow users to attach audio clips to their blogs.
Nokia Siemens Networks and Ballard Power Systems want methanol-powered fuel cells to keep mobile networks running in the event of an electricity outage and are working with NTT DoCoMo to test the technology.
Nokia has tweaked its mobile gaming strategy, transforming its less-than-successful N-Gage device into a software platform and enlisting the support of several games publishers to deliver popular content.
Just weeks before launching its new Centrino notebook platform, Intel Corp. said Wednesday it had cancelled plans to provide wireless access with an HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) module built by Nokia Corp.
Nokia Corp. is aiming to boost the use of mobile e-mail in the enterprise with a new release of its Intellisync software and several new handsets aimed at business users.