Nokia and Google: Too much emphasis on the mobile OS?
With Nokia’s acquisition of Symbian, it is going head-to-head with Google Android and Windows Mobile to make a run at building the top software platform for mobile phones. The problem is that all three of them could be making some bad assumptions about the way the mobile phone market — particularly the smartphone market — [...]
Nokia to acquire Symbian: make it open source
GLOBAL – Nokia today announced a plan to acquire the 52 per cent of Symbian it doesn’t already own and set up the Symbian Foundation, making the platform open source in the process. The ambition is to create “the most attractive platform for mobile innovation and drive the development of new and compelling web-enabled applications” [...]
Will Android have a tougher time than expected?
Access Co has been developing its own Linux ecosystem for years, and when it purchased Palm Source in 2005 it was expected that mobile Linux would go mainstream. Unfortunately little has happened and at this year’s Wireless Developers Forum, Access had great ideas but little to show. So Android should have a clear run. However [...]
Adobe Finally Takes On Apple, Google In Mobile
Today Adobe announced a new hugely important strategic initiative regarding the Flash Player called the Open Screen Project. The upshot: It’s finally ready to start competing with Google and Apple for mobile platform developers. There are three keys to the announcement. First Adobe (ADBE) is removing all licensing restrictions and fees for the Flash Player [...]
Nokia ties up with Google
World’s largest cellphone maker Nokia has tied up with Google to facilitate web search on its products, even as it launched models offering new services, moves that could consolidate its leadership position. The integration will begin in select markets on Nokia N96, Nokia N78, Nokia 6210 Navigator and Nokia 6220 classic. Google search will be [...]
Vodafone warns of threat from Google and Apple
Vodafone chief executive Arun Sarin has warned the industry to get creative about mobile services or risk becoming marginalised by the arrival of new kids on the block such as Apple and Google. In his keynote speech at the Mobile World Congress trade show in Barcelona on Tuesday, Sarin said: “We must, as an industry, [...]
AOL Announces Open Mobile Platform
AOL today announced the Open Mobile Platform, which the company plans to release to developers this summer. AOL says the software development platform will help developers create applications across major mobile device operating systems including BREW, Java, Linux, RIM, Symbian, and Windows Mobile. The platform will consist of three parts: an XML-based scripting language, a [...]
GPhone Prototype Expected at Mobile World Congress
It’s a big week coming up in the Mobile Web world. The annual Mobile World Congress is being held in Barcelona, 11-14 February. The early buzz is around Google’s much (and oft) rumored GPhone. According to the Times Online, Google “is expected to produce a prototype mobile handset” at the show. Even if Google itself [...]
First Google Android phone may debut next week
The first mobile phone to incorporate Google’s open-source Android platform will debut at next week’s Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, a source close to British chipmaker ARM Holdings has told Reuters. According to the source, ARM, a U.K.-based company that makes embedded and graphics processors, as well as processors for mobile devices such as cell [...]
Google to Launch a Search Engine for Ringtones
The Wall Street Journal reports that Google works on a search engine for mobile media content that will include ringtones and games. “With the new system, users would search for a piece of content — such as ringtones — and would get back a list of companies that provide it, with links letting them easily [...]
