In four months, CEO Stephen Elop has slashed its workforce and turned the company in a new direction. On Friday, he launched his gutsiest strategy yet -- dumping Nokia's ailing Symbian mobile operating system and betting the house on Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS.
When Nokia's CEO presents the company's strategy to investors in London on Friday, it could announce plans to use an outside operating system -- namely, Microsoft's , Google's or both, The Wall Street Journal reported Thursday.
Handsets based on Google's Android mobile operating system accounted for 32.9% of worldwide smartphone shipments in the fourth quarter, compared with Symbian's 30.6% market share, according to a new report from market researcher Canalys. Apple's iOS was a distant third, with 16%.
A broad array of technology news helped define 2010, from the launch of Apple's iPad to the arrival of the app to a supernova of Internet stock gains. Here's a look back at those major stories -- and a glimpse of some highlights you can expect next year.
Nokia Siemens's planned acquisition of the bulk of Motorola's wireless-network business likely won't happen this year. Chinese regulators are still reviewing the deal, and Nokia Siemens now expects approval -- and the completion of the purchase -- will have to wait until the first quarter of 2011.
Nokia has announced that its high-end flagship E7 smartphone will miss the 2010 holiday season. Without explaining what the exact problem was, a spokesperson says Nokia wants to "allow the best possible user experience." Making sure the phone works is a good start.
Apple's iPhone operating system software stumbled in the third quarter, losing year-over-year quarterly market share for the first time, as Google's Android mobile operating system pulled further ahead, according to a Gartner Research report released Wednesday.
Nokia released its long-awaited and previously delayed flagship N8 smartphone on Thursday. With the ability to run multiple applications at once and a 12 megapixel camera that shoots HD-quality videos, the device is intended to by Nokia's answer to Apple's iPhone.
Interbrands' latest annual ranking of brand value once again has Coca-Cola as No. 1. But rising three spots within the Top 10 is Google. Now in the fourth spot, the search giant trails archrival Microsoft by only one rung on the brand-value ladder.
When Nokia announced last week that its new CEO would be Stephen Elop, longtime Chairman Jorma Ollila, who led the company into the mobile phone business, was deliberately hazy about his own plans. Now we know: Ollila will remain on board through spring 2012 to help with the transition.
Nokia's Symbian platform and Google's Android system will be racing at a dead heat in 2014, according to a Gartner report. The research firm forecasts that those systems will each have double the users of Apple's iOS operating system by then.
On the eve of Nokia World, the world's largest mobile phone provider the resignation of Anssi Vanjoki, the head of its smartphone operations. This comes within days of Nokia naming of a new CEO, in a move to reignite the struggling handset maker.
Nokia has chosen Stephen Elop to become its next CEO. But Nokia has seen its market share fall in the past three years, and Elop takes the job with virtually no experience in handsets, turnarounds, or meaningful innovation.
Google's Android mobile operating system continues to make major inroads in the cell phone market, and will shoot from a mere 3.9% global market share in 2009 to an estimated 17.7% this year, ahead of RIMM and Apple, according to a new report from research firm Gartner.
Nokia unveiled its type-and-touch X3 Tuesday, a device designed to appeal to consumers looking for an inexpensive smartphone. An alternative is Research In Motion's BlackBerry Torch, which just had its price slashed by 50%.
Smartphone shipments and phones based on the Android operating system posted double-digit second-quarter gains despite a still-weak economy, according to a report released today.
Samsung provided the missing piece to its tablet computer puzzle on Friday, announcing the soon-to-be-released Galaxy Tab will run on Google's Android operating system, just like its Galaxy smartphones.
It's been a rough year for those in the branding business at big corporations. SEC probes, massive product recalls and one monstrous oil spill have taken a toll on the reputations -- and stock prices -- of some major companies. Here are 10 of the biggest losers so far.
Research In Motion wasn't thrilled when Apple CEO Steve Jobs claimed the iPhone 4's antenna problem is common throughout the industry, including on BlackBerrys, and called Apple's actions "unacceptable." Nokia and HTC aren't amused either.
With a global reach that other phone makers can only envy -- 44% market share -- and the brand recognition that goes with it, Nokia's still having a hard time transitioning to smartphones. It needs a plan, fast, that involves innovation, and lots of it.
Nokia, which lowered its second-quarter guidance on Wednesday, is facing problems that are all its own. Research In Motion, Motorola and Samsung aren't about to follow in the Finnish company's troubled footsteps.
Nokia lowered its second-quarter guidance Wednesday, citing greater competition in the high-end smartphone market and a shift in its product mix toward lower priced phones.
Microsoft will change management at its device division. The actions are, according to early speculation, a reaction to the rise of Apple and Google in the consumer electronics sector. But the trouble goes deeper than that.
Microsoft jumped into the mobile unified communications business Wednesday with the launch of its Communicator Mobile application for Nokia smartphones, software which aims to help people connect across platforms, informing callers how best to reach each other via IM, email, text or voice.
