By now, you have probably heard the news: In an effort to turn around
its decline, Nokia will partner with Microsoft and mostly go Windows
Phone 7 (WP7) in the future. This post contains my thoughts on this.
8 replies - 5987 views - 02/14/11 by Axel Rauschmayer in News
Although worldwide mobile phone sales had about a one-percent decline in 2009 according to Gartner, the year ended on a positive note with an 8.3% increase compared to Q4 of 2008. A survey of the worldwide mobile OS market share shows Symbian maintaining...
0 replies - 7446 views - 02/23/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Symbian Needs Volunteers
0 replies - 12617 views - 02/20/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
The world's most widely used smartphone operating system, Symbian, is now completely open source. The Symbian Foundation made the announcement this morning that the entire Symbian 3 platform's source code, which is the result of more than ten years of...
0 replies - 4129 views - 02/04/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Oracle to Cut 50% of Sun Workforce? Sun Says NoLast week, USB analyst Brent Thill predicted that Oracle would cut some 13,800 jobs at Sun if the merger is completed. Thill said the cuts would be necessary for Oracle to have $1.5 billion in non-GAAP...
4 replies - 13354 views - 01/18/10 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Software Patents Get Strict
1 replies - 11704 views - 12/31/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in Daily Dose
Leaders on both sides of the Oracle-Sun deal have been recruiting people to send email petitions to the EU. Just before the hearings this weekend, Oracle persuaded its customers, including Vodafone, the Spanish Bank BBVA, and the National Health Service, to...
0 replies - 11074 views - 12/14/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
It
seemed like Apple was ready to annihilate Psystar's business a few weeks ago. The Mac Clone maker has been bankrupt for some time and
last month a judge ruled in favor of Apple's copyright infringement
case. In a surprise move, Apple recently called for a...
0 replies - 12016 views - 12/02/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
According to Amazon,
the world's biggest software company has also racked up the largest
number of pre-orders of any product, EVER! That's right, Amazon says
Microsoft's Windows 7 release is the most pre-ordered product in the
e-tailer's history (yes,...
0 replies - 7928 views - 10/22/09 by Mitchell Pronsc... in News
Speaking at a recent conference, Forum Nokia VP Tom Libretto, confirmed that the Finnish telecom giant has a new touchscreen device in the pipeline, tentatively called "Tube" (details and pics at symbian-freak.com.) In marked contrast to Apple, it...
5 replies - 7998 views - 04/10/08 by Rick Ross in News
It's so easy to get up and running with your first Windows Phone app! Just pick up the 
