IE9 in Windows Phone will be good for cross-platform JavaScript and HTML5 apps
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer, accompanied by Nokia’s Stephen Elop, showed coming updates for Windows Phone 7 at a Mobile World Congress keynote last night. A minor update due in early March will add...
View ArticleNokia’s Elop fears mobile duopoly, but it is already here
It is day two of Mobile World Congress here in Barcelona; and everyone is pondering the implications of Nokia’s Windows Phone partnership with Microsoft. It is a pivotal moment for the industry, but...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8 will run Windows 8, with Silverlight centre stage?
More information on Windows 8 is leaking out now; and it gives some clues about how Microsoft intends to make sense of its two device platforms, Windows tablets and Windows Phone. Microsoft held back...
View ArticleGoogle is now a hardware company as it announces acquisition of Motorola...
Google is to acquire Motorola Mobility, a major manufacturer of Android handsets. Why? I believe this is the key statement: We recently explained how companies including Microsoft and Apple are banding...
View ArticleNokia’s Windows Phone gamble
At Nokia World in London on Wednesday, CEO Stephen Elop presented the new Lumia range of Windows Phones. You can watch the keynote here – I was impressed by Elop’s clarity and conviction, and also by...
View ArticleDeveloping for Windows Phone: what’s new
One thing that is easy to overlook in all the talk about Windows Phone, Nokia, and Microsoft’s prospects against iPhone and Android, is that the Windows Phone developer platform has substantially...
View ArticleITWriting.com awards 2011: ten key happenings, from Nokia’s burning platform...
2011 felt like a pivotal year in technology. What was pivoting? Well, users are pivoting away from networks and PCs and towards cloud and devices. The obvious loser is Microsoft, which owns PCs and...
View ArticleWindows Phone, Windows 8, and Metro Metro Metro feature in Microsoft’s last...
I watched Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer give the last in a long series of Microsoft keynotes at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. There were three themes: Windows Phone, Windows 8, and Xbox...
View ArticleNokia results: hope for Windows Phone?
It is almost one year since Nokia’s dramatic announcement that it would transition its smartphone range to Windows Phone. Today the company released its results for the fourth quarter and for the full...
View ArticleWill Nokia’s Qt come to Windows Phone?
When Nokia acquired Trolltech back in 2008, it made perfect sense as a way of supporting development on Symbian, its smartphone operating system, and nudging the Qt project, which provides a...
View ArticleNokia Lumia strategy needs time, may not have it
A quick comment on Nokia’s dismal results for the first quarter of 2012. Sales are down 26% quarter on quarter; Smartphone sales down 38% despite the introduction of the Lumia Windows Phone in Europe....
View ArticleNokia and Windows Phone 8: more questions than answers
Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop announced the Lumia 820 and 920 yesterday in New York; new versions of its high-end Windows smartphones and the first to run the forthcoming Windows Phone 8 operating system....
View ArticleApps sell better with Live Tiles, says Nokia, with other tips for phone...
I attended an online seminar by Nokia’s Jure Sustersic on Windows Phone 8 development. It was a high level session so not much new, though Sustersic says the 7.8 update for existing 7.x Windows Phones...
View ArticleTrial apps and in-app purchases easy to hack on Windows 8 says Nokia engineer
A principal engineer at Nokia, Justin Angel, has written a piece showing how to hack apps on Windows 8, undermining their potential revenue for the app vendors. “This is an educational article written...
View ArticleWindows Phone 8 enterprise security versus Blackberry 10 Balance and Samsung...
How good is Windows Phone 8 security? Actually, pretty good. The key features are described here [pdf]: Trusted Boot prevents booting to an alternative operating system, using the UEFI secure boot...
View ArticleMicrosoft acquires Nokia’s device business: a risky move for Windows Phone
Microsoft is to acquire Nokia’s device business: Microsoft Corporation and Nokia Corporation today announced that the Boards of Directors for both companies have decided to enter into a transaction...
View ArticleNokia’s puzzling Android announcement: Nokia X
Nokia has announced the X range: Android smartphones connected to Microsoft/Nokia services including Bing search, OneDrive cloud storage, Nokia Here maps, and Nokia Music. The phones, according to...
View ArticleX is for Xamarin: One company that is pleased to see Nokia X
Xamarin, which provides cross-platform development tools for targeting iOS and Android wtih C#, is not exhibiting here at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, but does have a presence for meetings, and...
View ArticleFarewell Nokia X? Not quite, but the signs are clear as Microsoft bets on...
I could never make sense of Nokia X, the Android-with-Microsoft-services device which Nokia announced less than a year ago at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona: If Nokia X is a worse Android than...
View ArticleMicrosoft Financials show cloud growth, Nokia loss
Microsoft has announced its financial results for the quarter ending June 30th 2013. How is it doing? Quarterly revenue is up to $23.38 billion from $20.49 billion year on year, though $1.98 billion of...
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