Jan 31

ARM Holdings reports 45% increase in Q4 profits

ARM Q4 profits

The British chip designer, ARM Holdings, reported a record breaking Q4 pre-tax profits with “increase in pre-tax profit for the fourth quarter to 49.67 million pounds from 34.92 million pounds a year ago.” ARM also reported increase in revenues during … Continue reading

Jan 29

Report: NOKIA handset shipments top the charts in 2011 and Apple has strong Q4

Global Shipments

New report from Strategy Analytics shed some light on the global handset market in 2011.  According to the report, comparing the smartphone sales in Q4 2011, Apple came out with a strong Q4 2011 with 37 million iPhones shipped with … Continue reading

Jan 16

Microsoft profits from 70% of Android Devices with the latest LG deal, Pantech next?

Microsoft LG Deal

Microsoft already has licensing agreements with HTC, Samsung, Acer, and with the addition of LG, the Redmond giant now covers 70% of all Android devices sold in the US. In the past, HTC has been rumoured to pay $5 per Android … Continue reading

Jan 11

Best of CES, Smartphone: Nokia Lumia 900

Nokia Lumia 900 US

Nokia announced their North American version of Lumia 800 during CES 2012.  The Nokia device running Windows Phone OS will be called Lumia 900.  Nokia also announced Lumia 710 for T-Mobile, which will also be available in Canada with Lumia … Continue reading

Jan 11

Best of CES, Software: BlueStacks brings 400,000 Android apps to Windows 8

BlueStacks

BlueStacks announced its app player for bringing the Android Apps to Windows based computing devices.  These devices include the windows PCs, tablets, and desktops.  Yesterday, the company unveiled its plans of providing a compatible version of the app player for … Continue reading

Jan 06

Microsoft XBOX Live App coming to Android?

Xbox Live on Android

A new job posting from the Xbox Live Mobile team stated that, IEB is looking for developers “to bring the latest and greatest gaming and entertainment experience to mobile platforms including Windows Phone, iOS and other mobile platforms”.  The job … Continue reading

Jan 06

Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Hybrid

thinkpad

The Consumer Electronics Show is always an exciting time of year for tech geeks. New products from well-known veterans of the electronics world are announced with fanfare and spectacle, and innovations from smaller startup companies sneak their way into the … Continue reading

Jan 04

Nokia Ace for AT&T coming with $200 Million Windows Phone Marketing Plan

Nokia Ace

Nokia is expected introduce their windows phone devices in the US during 2012. One of the Nokia windows phone devices is Nokia Ace a.k.a Lumia 900.  According to Paul Thurrott, Microsoft and Nokia are planning to “Convince consumers to purchase … Continue reading

Dec 28

Leak: Windows Phone Roadmap, Tango and Apollo in 2012

WindowsPhoneRoadmap

Microsoft’s roadmap for Windows Phone has been leaked, it shows the plans for Windows Phone OS upgrade schedule. The Windows Phone 7 was launched in Q4 of 2010, one year later Microsoft provided the Mango update in Q4 of 2011. … Continue reading

Dec 28

Windows Phone Marketplace reaches to 50,000 apps

marketplace-concept-hub

More than 50000 apps have been submitted to the Windows Phone Marketplace. The news provides great outlook for Windows Phone fans in 2012 as more and more apps are being submitted to the windows phone marketplace. The chart below shows … Continue reading