If you want to find a Symbian owner in Australia, the best place to look might be in line at the Apple Store. Apple is now Australia’s No. 1 mobile phone vendor as Symbian maker Nokia lost nearly half of its market share during the...Apple iPhone Now Tops Down-Under as Nokia Hit With ‘Double Whammy’
If you want to find a Symbian owner in Australia, the best place to look might be in line at the Apple Store. Apple is now Australia’s No. 1 mobile phone vendor as Symbian maker Nokia lost nearly half of its market share during the...Report: Apple is building two (!) iPhones for September release
An analyst expects Apple to launch both an iPhone 5 and a mid-range iPhone 4S
Click to enlarge. Source: Deutsche Bank
For much of the spring, the reporters who cover Apple (AAPL) have been arguing among themselves about what to call the new iPhone they expect the company to introduce in September.
Some call it the iPhone 5,...
Nokia’s new MeeGo-based N9 is set up for failure
Nokia has finally announced the long-anticipated N9 handset, the culmination of Nokia's five-step plan to deliver a mainstream Linux-based smartphone. The N9 is an impressively engineered device that is matched with a sophisticat...
Nokia releases doomed Meego-based N9, borrows liberally from Apple
Nokia introduced its MeegoOS-powered N9 today. Nokia, of course, dropped Meego earlier this year for Windows Phone 7 but decided to release this thing anyway. Truth be told, it does look nice, if not familiar… The intro is a copy of Apple’s (See if you can pick the lines lifted from the video below) and the...
Report: Apple, too, has its eye on Nortel’s patent portfolio
Said to join Google, Intel, Ericcson and RPX in a bid for 6,000 telephony patents
This was the week we found out how valuable telecommunications patents can be.
On Tuesday, Apple (AAPL) settled its long-running patent dispute with Nokia (NOK) for what analysts estimate could be as much as $1 billion in licensing fees.
On Friday, the Wall...
Asymco: Apple could buy the mobile phone industry
It could, in theory, acquire every cellphone vendor except Samsung with cash alone
Click to enlarge. Source: Asymco
Asymco's Horace Dediu has been tracking Apple's (AAPL) growing liquid assets and the shrinking valuations of its mobile competitors, and he estimates that they soon will cross.
Apple's third fiscal quarter closes next week, and when it does, Dediu is...
Asymco: Apple could buy the mobile phone industry
It could, in theory, acquire every cellphone vendor except Samsung with cash alone
Click to enlarge. Source: Asymco
Asymco's Horace Dediu has been tracking Apple's (AAPL) growing liquid assets and the shrinking valuations of its mobile competitors, and he estimates that they soon will cross.
Apple's third fiscal quarter closes next week, and when it does, Dediu is...
Apple Loses in Nokia Patent Dispute, But Do They Win Overall?
In late 2009, cell phone manufacturer Nokia filed a claim against Apple claiming that the iPhone infringed on ten of Nokia’s patents. Over time, countersuits between the two companies expanded the disputed claims to 75 different patents in multiple c...
Why The iPad Made Me Ditch My iPhone For A Nokia Dumbphone [Opinion]
Two weeks ago Sunday, my iPhone 3GS slid from my pocket and nuzzled itself amongst the fossilized bubble gum, mottled receipts and other sticky detritus that lays thick between the seats of the 7:20pm MBTA train to Forest Hill on the Orange Line. Doubtless someone...OWC Radio #56 – Better Is In The “i” Of The Beholder
Mixed reactions from our panel on the announcements made by Apple at WWDC last week, from excitement to disappointment, fuel the discussions on this month’s episode. Topics include iCloud, iOS5, OS X Lion, iTunes Match, Mac Defender, AT&TR...
Nokia buries patent hatchet with Apple to help fund WP7 switch
Nokia and Apple have settled their differences over patent licensing, which had broiled into several lawsuits in the US and Europe. Nokia announced on Tuesday that Apple agreed to license its patents for an undisclosed...
Apple Settles With Nokia Over Patent Dispute
Nokia today announced that they have reached a settlement with Apple over a complex web of patent disputes between the companies that have been keeping both companies (and the courts) busy since 2009. The settlement involves a one-time payment as well as on-going royalties to be paid to Nokia by Apple – the size of...
