Nokia

I have been saying for two years now that Nokia is toast because it has hitched its wagon to an also-ran in the smartphone race. The only out for the company is a takeover by Microsoft and now this is done. Will it work though?

The mobile emphasis is insidious because I almost don't notice that mobile is an angle n nearly every story I see. And when I write mobile, I don't mean smartphones - or 'handheld computers - as Newt Gingrich calls them in the hilarious…

I have a few threads on tech that I am going to breakup into multiple posts here. The first two threads are on Adobe's move into a cloud computing-only based software model and on Nokia's dogged pursuit of the windows mobile platform, now…

In the tech world the big news is Microsoft's unveiling of the Surface Tablet and Windows Phone 8 on back to back days. There is a lot of positive buzz around these two initiatives. The question, of course, is whether it will vault…

Reports of a cool new product out of Nokia give investors some hope that the company's product palette can keep the loss-making company alive as its cash resources dwindle. My understanding is that the latest cuts at Nokia will include the…

Daily commentary Nokia is finished in my view. It was clear before they switched to the Windows Mobile platform that their existing platform was not going to survive the onslaught from smart phones with Apple iOS and Android operating…

Mashable says the Nokia Lumia 800 could be the best Windows Phone yet. The Wall Street Journal is a little more sceptical of Nokia’s Windows Mobile phone launch though. Take a look.

Android’s adoption is all about upgrades and not about switching. I see this as a land grab right now. The operating systems that can grab as much share as possible while people are upgrading from cheapie phones to inexpensive Smartphones…

Here’s an interesting conversation about social media and Internet and technology companies' adjustment to it.

If you saw the last round of data for the burgeoning mobile market, you would understand exactly why Nokia and Microsoft are banding together. These two companies are also rans in a market that has shifted away from voice communication to…