News Results For Motorola And Other Cellphone Company Plans

1. Nokia plans to take over Symbian (Seattle Times)
   Wed, 25 Jun 2008 07:12:27 GMT Nokia is buying the consortium that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, in hopes...



2. Sony Ericsson warns on profit as demand suffers (The Globe and Mail)
   Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:39:59 GMT Swedish mobile phone company posts weak performance in higher-end products; shares drop 11 per cent



3. Cellphone maker Nokia to buy rest of Symbian, free its software (The Canadian Press via Yahoo! Canada News)
   Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:34:00 GMT NEW YORK - Nokia Corp. is buying the consortium that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, in hopes of blunting the influence of competing software providers.



4. Nokia to Open Access to Mobile Software (NYTimes.com via Yahoo! Finance)
   Thu, 26 Jun 2008 01:36:17 GMT Nokia said that it would make the software that runs its phones available to outside developers, as the company tries to head off competition and stimulate the use of mobile music, video and e-mail.



5. Nokia deal aimed at opening up mobile software (International Herald Tribune)
   Tue, 24 Jun 2008 18:43:35 GMT By acquiring the part of Symbian it does not already own, Nokia is hoping to counter inroads into cellphone software made by Google, Microsoft and Apple.



6. Handy new tricks with that old cellphone (Seattle Times)
   Sat, 21 Jun 2008 07:11:58 GMT A few months back, there was a flurry of interest in a widely circulated e-mail that suggested a half-dozen unusual tricks for cellphones...



7. Struggling Motorola to halve research labs (Independent Online)
   Mon, 16 Jun 2008 08:16:03 GMT Motorola is to roughly halve the size of its research labs to about 300 people as it plans to halt some projects and move at least 180 people to other units.



8. Bloomberg says China's Huawei Technologies to sell majority stake in mobile devices unit - Update (Nasdaq)
   Thu, 19 Jun 2008 03:41:32 GMT (RTTNews) - Late Thursday, China-based privately-held Huawei Technologies Co. is reportedly mulling disposing a majority stake in its mobile devices unit, which is valued at about $4 billion, to a foreign investor.



9. Mobile Start-up Goldrush! (Forbes)
   Mon, 16 Jun 2008 22:12:06 GMT It's not just Apple and Google. PC makers, entrepreneurs and tinkerers are all launching their own phones.



10. Here’s What’s Going To Happen To Apple’s Rivals (TechCrunch)
    Mon, 16 Jun 2008 10:19:26 GMT Business Week investigates what the iPhone’s impact is going to be on rival high-end phone makers like RIM, Palm, Nokia, etc. I’ll save you the read - the answer is summed up in the image to the right. It’s true, Apple only sold 6 million iPhones in its first year, out of a billion or so [...]