Welcome to your weekly hack update, in which a major company admits its perimeter was breached and someone made off with piles of sensitive data. In this installment: Nokia, the Finland-headquartered mobile device manufacturer, and their online development community.
Yep, that community was reportedly infiltrated by ne’er-do-wells who …
It wasn’t enough to surpass the U.S. government with a whopping $76 billion in cash reserves, now Apple’s been declared the world’s largest smartphone manufacturer as well. It must have something to do with that mobile phone they make. What’s it called again? The i-Something?
Yep, that. And according to Strategy Analytics, it pushed …
Nokia has erased any doubt that it’ll launch its first Windows Phone in 2011.
This is My Next confirmed the news with Nokia spokesman Ray Haddow, which is good, because you might not get the message from CEO Stephen Elop’s corporatespeak: “Step by step, beginning this year, we plan to have a sequence of concentrated product launches …
The Nokia N9 might’ve been the smartphone you dreamed of in a parallel universe, where Android and the iPhone hadn’t already gobbled up the market and where third-party app developers didn’t make or break platforms. It’s a slick-looking phone with slick-looking software, but the tragedy is that none of it really matters.
Nokia’s fighting back in the smartphone wars with something really special: a gold-plated handset.
Take that, Apple. Ha!
The Nokia Oro is plated in 18-carat gold, has a sapphire crystal on the Home button, and comes lovingly wrapped in leather from “one of Scotland’s finest Caledonian herds”.
Inside, it’s basically a C7, runs …
The Internet rumor mill is buzzing and has churned out a slightly farfetched idea: Nokia may be selling its phone business to Microsoft.
This is total speculation, of course, but Russian blogger Eldar Murtazin, who scooped word of the deal first, has proven to have some foresight when it comes to Nokia. Last December when nobody …
Nokia today announced the end of its Ovi mobile services brand, starting today and slowly phasing out over the coming year.
All Ovi‘s products – including maps, email, music, an app store, and more – will continue to operate, but now simply under the Nokia brand name.
In an official announcement, Nokia’s head of marketing Jerri
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Nokia is building a tablet, which shouldn’t surprise anyone. But don’t expect this tablet to be another me-too tablet. It’ll be different!
That’s what they all say, right?
When asked about his company’s tablet plans on a Finnish news show, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop said the following:
“We have a number of options in the tablet
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Nokia just announced huge job cuts – 7,000 jobs in total, right across its internal divisions and spread all over the world. It’s the biggest single jobs layoff in the company’s history.
Offices will be closed (including one in the UK that was only recently refurbished at a cost of £8 million) and three thousand jobs connected with …
For Angry Birds aficionados, there’s some good and some bad news.
The good: You’ll soon have a new opportunity to fling our feathered friends at piles of smirking pigs courtesy a new edition of the game dubbed “Angry Birds Magic.”
And the bad: It’s only available for Nokia’s C7 Smartphone, which employs near field …
Have you seen these new 3D city maps from Nokia’s Ovi Maps service? They’re pretty amazing.
20 global cities have been recreated in astonishing photorealistic 3D. These are not satellite images, nor are they traditional maps. They’re something different.
Nokia didn’t do all the work in-house. They bought the technology from Swedish …
Whoa, Microsoft! Big spender! Nice cufflinks! And are you wearing $108 sweatpants from Lululemon? You must be doing really well for yourself.
The backstory: Microsoft and Nokia struck a partnership wherein Microsoft’s new Windows Phone 7 mobile platform will be used on Nokia’s many, many smartphone handsets that ship all over the …
