Court papers are stating that Nokia has paid Qualcomm around $1 billion over the last 15 years for full access to the chip maker’s early mobile technology patents. Tweet
Nokia and Free The Children are working together on a joint initiative called “Directors of Change”, a program that aims to create a generation of socially engaged and globally aware Canadian youth. Tweet
Fido launched the exclusive Nokia 6555 mobile phone. This is a basic phone with a low cost of $75 on a 3-year contract and includes a 1G Memory Card. Some highlights of the phone are that you can easily browse, download, share and stream videos. It has a colourful 2.0″ display, 1.3 megapixel camera and [...]
As part of Nokia’s ongoing work looking at how it can help people make more sustainable choices, they have released an online video for the “Remade” mobile phone concept. The idea is focussed on how recycled materials could be used to make mobile phones in the future. The video below shows s concept phone that [...]
At the World Mobile Congress Nokia announced a beta version of Nokia Map 2.0 that is available now for downloading at the Nokia Beta Labs web site. The update to the software is a feature called “Walk” – this is a pedestrian-focused navigation for those walking around city streets and provides visual turn-by-turn directions information [...]
Nokia, the largest cell phone maker in the work is being sued for almost $18 billion by Munich-based IP-Com for using patents for “mobile communications technology”. IP-Com decided to sue Nokia after the mobile-phone maker refused to pay and demands that Nokia stop using the patents IP-Com owns. Christoph Schoeller, managing director of IP-Com [...]
Today Nokia announced an intent to purchase Oslo-based mobile software provider Trolltech – the make the Linux powered Qtopia platform as well as the Qt product that is used in products such as Google Earth and the Opera web browser. The cost is estimated to be around $155 million. Nokia says that the acquisition will [...]
Finland-based Nokia said fourth-quarter net profit surged 44 percent to $2.6 billion and that they reached its long-term goal of 40 percent market share in handset sales Sales in October through December grew 34 percent to 15.7 billion euros ($22.9 billion), this accounts for more than 133 million handsets — up 27 percent from the [...]
Nokia is working on a major deal with Facebook by offering a “placement” button on the main screen their phones, mainly the iPhone. The deal is much bigger than just a placement though as there is speculation that the early discussions have involved Nokia purchasing a stake in Facebook. The possible deal would give Facebook [...]
Code name “Chinook’”, the Nokia N810 is the latest addition to Nokia’s Internet and is now available in Canada at the Nokia website. This Features a large 4.1″ touchscreen with 800×480 pixel resolution and is based on Maemo (a Linux based user interface), a slide QWERTY keyboard, built-in GPS receiver, 2GB of built-in memory with [...]