Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: March 23, 2009
IF THE father of electromagnetism, Michael Faraday, could be transported into the 21st century, he would no doubt be awestruck by the iPhone. After five hours of tapping its touch-screen to browse the internet, make calls, play games and determine his location via satellite-positioning, he might also find himself a little puzzled. Why, with all [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: March 12, 2009
MIT engineers have created a kind of beltway that allows for the rapid transit of electrical energy through a well-known battery material, an advance that could usher in smaller, lighter batteries – for cell phones and other devices – that could recharge in seconds rather than hours. The work could also allow for the quick [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: March 1, 2009
The newly open source OS plans to distribute its new code to developers in April. The Symbian Foundation said one of its core tasks in future will be to enable operators to integrate their own “app stores” in order to drive multiple “store fronts” onto the mass market. According to Lee Williams, the former head [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 10, 2009
Microsoft (MSFT) executives have long spun visions of a world where computer users can seamlessly share information between a PC, the Web, and a cell phone. But the company has made little progress in making that vision a reality—at least until now. On Feb. 16, Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer will take the stage at the [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: February 4, 2009
Motorola lost its position in Mobile handset market to Samsung and LG within the last 2 years. This article of Business Week tries to find why. Motorola’s stunning quarterly loss is just the latest development in the company’s long, inexorable decline from the very apex of the cell-phone market. Motorola (MOT), which effectively defined “Cell [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: January 26, 2009
Nokia saw its fourth quarter net profit drop 69 percent. The Finnish firm’s quarterly results were weakened by a drop in sales. The world’s largest handset maker reported a net profit of $746.3 million, down from $2.38 billion in the fourth quarter of 2007. The company reported sales of $16.4 billion in the quarter, down [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: January 5, 2009
Nokia has vowed to become the world’s biggest touchscreen maker and increase its handset market share in 2009. Nokia, the world’s largest phone-maker, lost market share in the smartphone segment in Q3 last year under the onslaught of Apple’s iPhone, largely because of its lack of touchscreen devices. Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo admits the company [...]
Posted by: Hadi uz Zaman on: October 11, 2008
Nokia faces a new fight as counterfeit manufacturers up the quality of their replica devices in time for the launch of the manufacturer’s most expensive phones. Distributors and dealers who have seen the latest fakes have raised their concerns about the difficulty of telling them apart from the originals. The most recent fakes to surface [...]
