Apple and Samsung only phone makers to show growth
The S3, more could have been sold if Samsung could have made themIf you are Apple and Samsung you should be reasonably happy – their share of the global phone market rose by 2.3 percentage points and...
View ArticleSony unveils ‘Surface’ lookalike tablet and Samsung announces Windows phone
The new Sony tablet looks very like Microsoft’s Surface Sony’s new tablet bears a striking resemblance to Microsoft’s ‘Surface’ unveiled earlier in the year. The Xperia Tablet S is an upgrade of the...
View ArticleNokia’s and Microsoft’s €18 million Finnish incubator – AppCampus
The AppCampus incubator programme is a joint venture between Nokia, Microsoft and Aalto University in Finland which encourages developers to build apps for Windows Phones. The two tech giants have...
View ArticleCan the Nokia Lumia 920 Windows 8 compete with the iPhone?
The Nokia Lumia 920 Windows 8 phone is seen by many as a last chance for the world’s biggest phone maker to remain in the smartphone race with Apple and Samsung. Well it looks good. It’s very sleek. It...
View ArticleMotorola unveils first Google phones
Motorola’s new Android phones: (left to right) The Motorola Razr M, Motorola Razr HD and the Motorola Razr Maxx HD With the new iPhone due out next Wednesday, all of Apple’s rivals are trying to steal...
View ArticleCould Google and Apple control 98% of the mobile market by the end of 2012?
Android is the world’s most popular mobile platform. Lessons can be learned from how it achieved its statusIt’s often a good way to attract attention – make a bold prediction involving powerful mobile...
View ArticleApple, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and others fund effort to...
Apple, Adobe, Facebook, Google, HP, Microsoft, Mozilla, Nokia, and Opera have joined the W3C to fund and launch a new site called ‘Web Platform’ – an open platform for developers to create the...
View ArticleMicrosoft launches Windows Phone 8 as hurricane Sandy spoils Google Nexus event
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer (centre) with Joe Belfiore manager of thew Windows phone program and actress Jessica Alba at the Windows Phone 8 launch in San Francisco Google’s attempt to steal some...
View ArticleNokia maps beats Google maps to iOS6
Nokia’s HERE maps is now available for Apple devices including the iPhone 5 Just as Google Maps is finally about to arrive on the iPhone 5, Nokia has gotten a head start by releasing HERE maps for iOS...
View ArticleBendy phones expected in 2013
The Samsung Skin concept phone Top of the range touchscreen handsets like the iPhone 5 or Samsung Galaxy SIII could soon be looking out-dated and old fashioned as mobiles with flexible, bendable and...
View ArticleApple and Samsung now tops for mobile web use
Samsung climbed ahead of Nokia to take second place behind Apple on a worldwide basisApple dislodged Nokia in January for the first time as the most popular mobile vendor in terms of global Internet...
View ArticleData from connected cars could aid driver safety
Floris van de Klashorst is Vice President Connected Car at Nokia’s Location & Commerce Business Unit, in Berlin, Germany. He was in Dublin recently to speak about connected cars, the driver of the...
View ArticleBye bye Blackberry hello Nokia (again)?
Smartphones that run on the Windows platform have overtaken sales of Blackberry’s smartphones. While Android and iOS remain the top operating systems for smartphones, Windows phones (Nokia Lumia...
View ArticleFinally, Nokia launches an Android smartphone
Nokia, the once dominant global mobile phone maker, has finally come to its senses and launched an Android phone. The Nokia X comes three years after Nokia first rejected the Android platform and went...
View ArticleSeedcamp 2014 seeks start-ups for €50k investments
Calling all start-ups. Seedcamp is coming to Dublin from April 30 – May 1. Seedcamp is a two day event that aims to connect “the 20 best web-tech, mobile and software talent with some of the leading...
View ArticleWhat next for Nokia?
Do you remember your first Nokia? Not too long ago Nokia strode the mobile planet as a colossus, the giant Finnish handset maker knew no bounds, it ruled the world. Today, five years after the arrival...
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