More than 200m Nokia smartphone users worldwide can now use voice-over-Internet Protocol calling software Skype on their handsets, potentially causing a headache for mobile operators everywhere
It’s hard to believe that it’s been only 30 months since Taiwan’s Asus invented the netbook market with its Eee PC.
The power and design of the latest generation of netbooks make the original Eee PC look like it belongs in prehistory.
Netbooks, of course, are the low-cost — and typically low-powered — laptop computers that have [...]
When Nokia introduced its now iconic E71 smartphone in July 2008, it represented a huge leap over its predecessor, the E61i. Nokia’s answer to Research In Motion’s BlackBerry range, the E71 was slimmed down, with a much faster processor, and refined software.
It’s not a stretch to suggest that the E71, which is now used by [...]
Operating systems were all the talk last week at Mobile World Congress, the cellphone industry’s annual confab in Barcelona. Apple, Microsoft, Google, Nokia and others are engaged in a battle over whose software will run the next generation of smartphones
Mobile World Congress, the cellphone industry’s annual confab in Barcelona, Spain, kicked off on Monday. We’ll be bringing you the highlights of the event each day this week, including the important product launches and other announcements
Nokia and Intel have announced that they will merge the best elements of their Maemo and Moblin Linux-based mobile operating systems to create the new MeeGo platform. Here, executives from both companies talk about the project.
This week, security expert Dominic White makes his debut on the show. He joins Brett Haggard, Duncan McLeod and Simon Dingle to discuss the ongoing Google-China debacle, free Nokia maps, Telkom’s Sat-3 problems, and much more
[Best of the Web -- Monday, 18 January 2010]
Nokia, Apple step up war of words: The fight between Nokia and Apple is getting ugly. Apple at the weekend began legal proceedings to prevent the Finnish handset manufacturer from importing its products into the US. Nokia has accused Apple of violating its patents in the iPhone. [...]
Madhava Enros, user experience lead for Firefox for Mobile, provides a demonstration of the popular Web browser running on a Nokia N900 device with the Linux-based Maemo 5 operating system.
Nokia isn’t launching the N900, its first Linux phone, in SA. Which is a pity, because I think this device could find a ready market among the tech set. [Update: Nokia has decided to introduce the product in SA after all. It will go on sale in the second quarter of 2010.]
The N900 represents Nokia’s [...]
