Tag: nokia
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Warner slaps Nokia for Web 2.0 swap site
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Andrew Orlowski
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Nokia’s Music Store went live last week – but look in vain for anything by Led Zepp, John Coltrane, or Smokey Robinson. That’s because Warner Music Group (WMG) is refusing to license its catalogues to the phone giant, in protest at its Web 2.0 file swapping site, Mosh. WMG says Mosh is a hotbed of…
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How the ‘Jesus Phone’ was really John The Baptist
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Andrew Orlowski
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So was nine months of relentless iPhone hype and froth just a distraction? Not quite, but you could be forgiven for thinking so. I believe Apple’s most important product of 2007 was actually announced this week, and its significance has been slow to sink in. It might be one of the cleverest moves Apple’s ever…
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Nokia: Don’t bet the house on content
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Andrew Orlowski
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At times you can feel sorry for Nokia. The company is damned when it dares to plan for the future, and it’s damned if it doesn’t. But that illustrates the depth of its dilemma. Today, Nokia is phenomenally successful in one business – handsets – which generates £27bn ($54bn) a year, with a margin of…
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Widget-fiddling at Nokia
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Andrew Orlowski
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When one looks at the prime assets of the Nokia of five years ago, it’s alarming to see how many have been discarded. At the turn of the decade, the Finnish giant boasted a formidable reputation for reliability, security and ease of use. Now it’s thrown all three out of the window, with security being…
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What sealed Palm’s software fate?
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Andrew Orlowski
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So, PalmOS ends up in the hands of an Japanese mobile browser company that almost no one has ever heard of. It’s a sad sign that expectations for PalmOS software have been so low, for so long, that PalmSource stock leapt 70 per cent on the news. The origins of this decline have been well…
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Nokia enters the data dispenser biz
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Andrew Orlowski
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Every bar has a condom dispenser. Why doesn’t every store have a data dispenser? Because you don’t want to shag a computer, of course. But this is an idea that remains largely unexplored. At 3GSM last week, Nokia tiptoed into a market that one day might be enormous: the “proximity server”. If you’ve attended a…