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Nokia goes after iPhone, Android in ads

by Kelly Hodgkins (Apr 2nd, 2012)

Nokia is ramping up for the launch of its flagship Lumia 900 on April 8. As part of an advertising push, the Finnish company released a series of YouTube videos that target the iPhone and Android. The ads take on the "fragile" glass design of the iPhone, the iPhone's "death grip" antenna ...

Nano-SIM standard vote postponed, RIM accuses Apple of cheating

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 30th, 2012)

RIM sent a scathing letter to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) accusing Apple of unfairly trying to sway the upcoming standards vote so its nano-SIM proposal gets approved. The letter, obtained by CNET, claims Apple is having its representatives change their ...

Apple offers royalty-free license to nano-SIM patents

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 26th, 2012)

FOSS Patents obtained a letter that Apple's legal team sent to the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) about its nano-SIM patents. The letter said that Apple will grant royalty-free licenses to any essential nano-SIM patent as long as its nano-SIM proposal is approved and ...

Nokia formally rejects Apple's nano-SIM proposal

by Steven Sande (Mar 22nd, 2012)

Apple is trying to get a new nano-SIM (a really small version of the Subscriber Identity Module chip used in mobile phones) standard approved by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) rather than having that standards organization select a competitive proposal by Nokia, ...

Apple's nano-SIM proposal has Motorola, Nokia, RIM unhappy

by Kelly Hodgkins (Mar 21st, 2012)

The nano-SIM is about to be approved by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI), but this simple vote on a telecommunications standard won't be all that simple. According to a report from The Financial Times, the technical details behind this next-generation SIM is turning into ...

DigiTimes: Apple likely to lead 2011 smartphone shipments

by Victor Agreda, Jr. (Sep 6th, 2011)

Who doesn't love estimates and projections? Digitimes Research projects Apple will surpass Nokia in terms of shipment volume in 2011, although total smartphone shipments overall are unsurprisingly projected to go up overall from 2010's totals. Unfortunately for Nokia, Digitimes predicts its ...

Apple passes Nokia on its way to the top of the smartphone market

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 21st, 2011)

Nokia is on a downward slide. The Finnish handset maker announced its quarterly earnings today and confirmed it shipped 16.7 million smartphones in the most recent quarter. This drop now puts Nokia in third place behind Apple and Samsung. Apple has risen to the top of the smartphone market ...

Apple edges out Nokia in European ad impressions

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 18th, 2011)

Apple may be slowly releasing the stranglehold Nokia has on the European market. According to ad network inMobi, the Q2 2011 results show Apple has edged out Nokia in terms of ad impressions. Both Apple and Nokia logged over 2 billion ad impressions in the quarter, but Apple snagged 90 million ...

Study reveals Apple surpasses RIM in US smartphone share

by Kelly Hodgkins (Jul 6th, 2011)

Apple is now the #2 mobile platform in the US with 26.6% market share. Apple rose 1.4 percentage points and inched past RIM which now holds 24.7% of the US market. Similar to Apple, Android also gained market share grabbing another 5.1 percentage points to climb to 38.1% market share. Rim took ...

Nokia enters patent license agreement with Apple

by Megan Lavey-Heaton (Jun 14th, 2011)

Nokia issued a press release this morning stating that it has reached an agreement with Apple that includes the settlement of all patent litigation between the companies. This includes a one-time payment from Apple and ongoing royalties. The specific contract terms are confidential. Apple had ...

Research suggests Apple, Samsung to overtake Nokia this quarter

by Mel Martin (Jun 13th, 2011)

According to Boy Genius Report, a report from Nomura Research predicts that Nokia will lose its lead in smartphone unit sales for the first time this quarter, being surpassed by Apple and Samsung. Nokia has held the top spot in smartphone unit sales for the last 15 years. Dropping from first to ...

Nokia CEO: Apple "created the conditions necessary to create Android."

by Michael Grothaus (Jun 9th, 2011)

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop told those attending the Open Mobile Summit in London today that Apple was more or less directly responsible for creating Android. Elop used the opening remarks of his keynote to specifically address Apple's power over the smartphone market. "Apple in 2007 introduced a ...

Microsoft hopes to invalidate Apple's "App Store" trademark in Europe too

by Michael Grothaus (May 12th, 2011)

Microsoft has filed a formal application for declaration of invalidity with the European Union's Community Trade Mark office over Apple's "App Store" trademark. The European declaration is a continuance of the Redmond company's campaign begun in the US in January. "App Store" is perhaps one of ...

iSuppli: Apple bucks decline in smartphone market, edges closer to Nokia

by Kelly Hodgkins (May 10th, 2011)

Apple is edging closer to Nokia and poised to assume the leadership position in the smartphone market, according to IHS iSuppli. In the first three months of 2011, Apple shipped 18.6 million iPhones globally, a 14.9 percent jump from the previous quarter. While Apple showed impressive gains, ...

Apple closing in on Nokia as world's top smartphone vendor

by Michael Grothaus (May 5th, 2011)

Research firm IDC has published the results from its most recent survey on smartphone shipments in the first quarter of 2011. There are lots of interesting insights from the data, but most interesting of all is that Apple appears to be in the last leg of its runup to overtake Nokia as the ...