Mobile Wars! Apple vs. Google vs. Those Other Guys

Release Date 17 Feb, 2011 in BusinessWeek

 
   
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Mobile Wars! Apple vs. Google vs. Those Other Guys

BusinessWeek - Alex Eben Meyer - 17 Feb, 2011
By Peter Burrows It's been a big couple of weeks in mobile. Verizon Wireless finally got the iPhone. Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) unveiled the first fruits of its Palm purchase last year. Nokia (NOK), the world's biggest handset maker, abandoned its ...

Expect Nokia Windows phones in 2012: chairman

Reuters - Terhi Kinnunen - 17 Feb, 2011
Nokia President and CEO Stephen Elop delivers a speech at the GSMA Mobile World Congress in Barcelona February 16, 2011. HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia board chairman said on Wednesday Nokia Windows phones will be on the markets from 2012 on and noted that ...

Verizon and Motorola put the smack down on Windows Phone 7

ZDNet (blog) - James Kendrick - 17 Feb, 2011
Talking smack about a platform that competes with your own company's offerings is nothing new, but the bluntness of recent comments by executives of Motorola and Verizon about Windows Phone 7 was ...

Nokia shareholder revolt on Windows Phone 7 was a hoax

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 17 Feb, 2011
Hoax of the week: A group of nine Nokia shareholders have, after one day, abandoned their effort to oust new CEO Stephen Elop and minimize a new partnership with Microsoft to make Windows Phone 7 the main platform for Nokia smart phones. ...

Digesting MWC: The device is no longer the star

ZDNet UK (blog) - David Meyer - 17 Feb, 2011
Mobile World Congress is pretty much done and dusted, and this year's show has been both interesting and dull. Dull because all the tablets look alike, and all the phones look alike, and there's not ...

Microsoft Phone Sees App Activity Rise on Nokia Deal

Bloomberg - Dina Bass - 17 Feb, 2011
Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone 7 operating system has lured an increasing number of application developers since the software maker announced a partnership with Nokia Oyj last week, according to analytics ...

Windows Phone 7: What Microsoft Needs Next

PCWorld - Jared Newman - 17 Feb, 2011
I don't think the smartphone race is over. Microsoft still has time to transform Windows Phone 7 from an also-ran into a genuine threat to Android and the iPhone. But the last week of announcements won't be ...

Verizon and Motorola execs give thumbs-down to Windows Phone 7

Computerworld (blog) - 17 Feb, 2011
Two of the most important players in the mobile industry, Verizon and Motorola, have essentially called Windows Phone 7 a failure, with a Verizon exec going so far as saying that the Nokia deal won't help the struggling smartphone platform. ...

Microsoft talks about Nokia and enterprise

ZDNet UK - David Meyer - 17 Feb, 2011
Casey McGee, a senior marketing manager at Microsoft, explained the implications of the partnership for Windows Phone and Symbian developers and spoke about the future of the surviving ...

No Windows Phone 7 for Nokia ... no, really ...

ZDNet (blog) - Adrian Kingsley-Hughes - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
Yes, you read that right. Nokia won't be implementing Microsoft Windows Phone 7 platform on handsets. Adrian Kingsley-Hughes is an internationally published technology author who has devoted ...

MS: Nokia Can Make $ Off Others' Windows Phones, New Browser Smokes Safari

PC Magazine - Sascha Segan - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
In a round table, Microsoft executives gave more details on the future of Windows Phone. By Sascha Segan BARCELONAâ€"In an afternoon round table here at Mobile World Congress, Microsoft executives said that richer multi-tasking will be coming to Windows ...

Microsoft Announces Future Windows Phone 7 Enhancements

InformationWeek (blog) - Ed Hansberry - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
Speaking of that first big update, Steve Ballmer confirmed today that it will be released in the first two weeks of March. Copy and Paste is the headliner of that update and CDMA support is close behind. We should see phones from CMDA carriers Sprint ...

Nokia to delay Microsoft Windows Phone beyond October

The Guardian - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
Nokia is not adopting Microsoft's current Windows Phone 7 platform â€" which means that there is no chance of any handsets running Microsoft's software before the end of October. It is likely to be a lot later. Rather than using the current version of ...

Analyst: Nokia-MS alliance bodes ill for phone giant

GMANews.TV - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Nokia's agreement with Microsoft Corp. to make Windows Phone 7 its principal operating system is likely to have a negative near-term impact on the mobile handset leader's smart phone shipments, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. ...

Nokia's Elop confident Microsoft deal will succeed

Seattle Times - Sharon Pian Chan - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Mobile World Congress: Q&A | Since the announcement Friday that Nokia would partner with Microsoft, the mobile industry has been in an uproar over the decision of the world's largest phone maker to go with Windows Phone software on its smartphones. ...

Windows Phone Reloaded: Can We Trust Ballmer's Promises?

PCWorld - Galen Gruman - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
For a couple years now, Microsoft's CEO has been making bold promises about the company making a serious effort to be a player in mobile. He criticized the failed Windows Mobile 6.5 effort and promoted Windows Phone 7 as a ...

Windows Phone 7 Upgrade, Online Video Viewing and Jeopardy Challenge

ABC News - Brett Levy, Tina Trinh - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Microsoft is looking to turn smartphones into video game remotes. Microsoft says it hopes to connect phones running on its Windows Phone 7 software to the Xbox. The company showed a video of one player using the Xbox Kinect ...

Microsoft and Nokia Need Lady Gaga

PC Magazine - John C. Dvorak - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Instead of giving Nokia billions of dollars, Microsoft should hire Lady Gaga. Both Nokia and Microsoft could use her marketing skills. By John C. Dvorak I'll explain the Lady Gaga angle in a minute, but first I'll why she is needed. ...

Nokia Shareholders Slam Windows Phone 7 Plan

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Dissident group wants the company to reject Microsoft alliance and instead focus on in-house research and innovation. By Paul McDougall , InformationWeek A group of Nokia shareholders have established a Web site to rail against the company's decision ...

Nokia-Microsoft deal seen as little threat to Apple, Google

CTV.ca - Michael Babad - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
These are stories Report on Business is following today. Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. UBS AG believes a new strategy launched last week by Nokia Corp. won't be any ...

Verizon CTO: We Don't Need Nokia-Microsoft (VZ, NOK, MSFT)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Verizon chief technical officer Tony Melone had harsh words for the recent deal between Microsoft and Nokia. That's bad news for Nokia and Microsoft, who desperately need carrier support to compete in the US market. In an interview with News.com, ...

Samsung Reiterates Support For Windows Phone 7 But Is Waiting On New Handsets

Forbes (blog) - Elizabeth Woyke - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
It was probably inevitable that Nokia's decision to partner with Microsoft on smartphones and other mobile devices would cast Microsoft's other mobile partnerships into doubt. After all, Nokia, which is still the world's largest ...

Nokia's Elop Only Put Microsoft Plan for Board Vote

Bloomberg - Diana ben-Aaron - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Bob Rice, managing partner at Tangent Capital Partners LLC, talks about the outlook for Facebook Inc. Rice, speaking with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack," ...

Microsoft's ecosystem is a tough sell to Verizon

CNET (blog) - Marguerite Reardon - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
BARCELONA, Spain--Verizon Communications Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone would love to see a third player in the mobile OS market, but Microsoft's Windows Phone platform may not be it. Melone said during an interview ...

Nokia reveals pictures of its Windows Phone handset concepts

Inquirer - Rob Coppinger - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has revealed its artist concepts for its Windows Phone handsets that it hopes will replace the 200 million Symbian^3 phones that currently populate the world. Showing different screens that are known to come ...

Nokia's "Plan B" proposal is a recipe for disaster

Computerworld (blog) - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
A group of Nokia stockholders have posted a public letter with a suggested "Plan B" for the company that would do away with the Microsoft deal, fire CEO Stephen Elop, and essentially commit the company to a go-it-alone strategy. ...

Motorola Exec: Windows Phone Was Too Late, Too Little

PCWorld - Nancy Gohring - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Motorola appears to have firmly shut the door on the possibility of using Windows Phone software. "I don't envision us using Microsoft. I would never say never but it's not something we're entertaining now," said Christy ...

Nokia CEO: First Windows Phone to Arrive in 2011

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Nokia's first Windows Phone will arrive by the end of 2011. We also take a look at what happened with Symbian and MeeGo. As soon as it became clear that Nokia had made Windows Phone its primary platform, ...

HTC Says Nokia's Move to Microsoft Is Good for All

ABC News - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
AP HTC, which has made Windows-powered smart phones for nine years, says that the decision by Nokia, the world's largest maker of phones, to adopt Microsoft software is good news for them. HTC's chief marketing officer John Wang told The Associated ...

Letter promises Nokia shareholder challenge

Reuters - Georgina Prodhan, Dan Lalor - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
BARCELONA, Spain (Reuters) - An open letter from a group describing itself as nine young Nokia shareholders promised a challenge to the Finnish cellphone maker's new strategic partnership with Microsoft. The authors did not identify themselves and ...

 

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