Category: Tech

Before we go any further I would like to underline that this web site is not a rumours site. I see speculation and spreading pointless rumours as two very different things. Lets move on. In part 1 we discussed about the backgrounds and current situation and shed some light on Nokia’s possible options. You can…

Before we go any further I would like to underline that this web site is not a rumours site. I see speculation and spreading pointless rumours as two very different things. Lets move on. In part 1 we discussed about the backgrounds and current situation and shed some light on Nokia’s possible options. You can…

If you follow the mobile industry even a little bit you could not have avoided to hear about Nokia’s Capital Market Day next Friday, February 11. The air is literary thick with different rumours. So-called analysts are giving their views, mostly guesses, on the situation, which major publications are then quoting as “reliable sources”. Pretty…

Nokia Q4 2010 numbers are finally out, and it isn’t pretty. You would think that a growth of 7% in a quarter would be a sign of relatively good performance, at least decent. But when the industry as a whole grows by 25% and some of your closest competitors by 30% or more in a…

The mobile industry as a whole is going through an interesting time of change. It used to be so that in order to make a phone call you needed to purchase a cell phone from one place and to sign up for a contract at another. Nowadays phones are usually sold through carriers, together with…

There is a lot of talk going around Google, Apple and Nokia when it comes to their mobile strategies. As interesting as this all is it does raise a question – what about Microsoft? Microsoft is dominant when it comes to computer operating systems but their mobile OS strategy has always been lacking. Now it…

Nokia, the largest mobile device manufacturer in the world, announced 1 October 2007 that it would acquire the worlds biggest digital map information company Navteq for a purchase price of approximately $8.1 billion (EUR 5.7 billion). This is still the biggest acquisition in the long history of Nokia. Table 1 and figure 1 illustrate the…

Nokia, the largest mobile device manufacturer in the world, announced 1 October 2007 that it would acquire the worlds biggest digital map information company Navteq for a purchase price of approximately $8.1 billion (EUR 5.7 billion). This is still the biggest acquisition in the long history of Nokia. Table 1 and figure 1 illustrate the…

As some of you might remember this isn’t my first blog. The first one was called “Omenafarmi” [Apple Farm] and as the name suggests it was all about Apple: Macs, iPods, OS X and so forth. But surprisingly not so much about the iPhone. Omenafarmi was written entirely in finnish to fulfill the need for…