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Nokia just posted their Q1 2012 financial results [PDF document], and they’re about the most depressing figures we’ve ever covered for the Finnish handset maker. The company made 7.4 billion Euros ($9.7 billion) in net sales, which is exactly 3 billion Euros ($3.9 billion) less than they made during the same quarter a year ago.…
Getting a virus on your computer is bad enough, but getting one on your phone is a whole other story. All your personal information leaks, and sometimes that includes the login credentials for many of the services you use. But how big of a problem is mobile malware? Goode Intelligence has had a go at…
Qualcomm just issued their Q2 2012 financial results; they use a fiscal calendar, hence the Q2 and not Q1. How did they do? Consider this: They had a record quarter in Q1 2012, a record that that they just broke today. We’re talking $4.94 billion in revenues, up 28% year over year; $1.51 billion in…
Gavin Kim is a man who gets around. According to his LinkedIn profile, he worked at Motorola between November 2003 and January 2007 where his main role there was to interface with Sprint. Over a year, in July 2008, he began working at Samsung, where he was tasked with “leading development of Samsung Mobile’s software…
Finland’s national news agency, YLE, has cited a Bloomberg report that says Rovio, the makers of Angry Birds, have turned down a $2 billion offer from Zynga, who recently purchased Draw Something for $200 million. Rovio refused to comment on the story, which pains us, since we’re pretty sure that Angry Birds is a one…
Nokia’s Lumia 900, which AT&T launched on Easter Monday (April 9th), may or may not be selling well depending on who you ask. There’s an easy way to get it into the hands of more customers though, and that’s by simply by letting more operators have a go at offering the device to their customers.…
Less than 3% of all the Android devices on the market run Ice Cream Sandwich. Those few and privileged people have access to what is perhaps the best Android app currently out there: Chrome. That’s right, Google ported their Chrome web browser to Android, but instead of building it into the OS, they made it…
For years, Intel has been saying that they’ll one day enter the smartphone market. And for good reason too. During the fourth quarter of last year, for the first time in recorded history, smartphone sales eclipsed PC sales. At the 2012 Consumer Electronics Show show in Las Vegas, the chip company showed off a reference…
Last Wednesday we filed a report that said Google was interested in selling Motorla Mobility to the Chinese handset and infrastructure company Huawei. Today there’s a new story that says Google’s plans are completely different. That instead of selling Motorola, Google will rebuild the company using the formula Apple has used over the past few…
There’s a video that’s circulating around the internet staring Nuno Silva, Developer Evangelist at Microsoft Portugal, where he “confirms” that today’s Windows Phones will be getting an update to the next major version of the OS. We’re of course talking about Windows Phone 8, codename Apollo. Is he telling the truth? We don’t think so.…