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HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia launched a new patent broadside against Apple, escalating a battle for control of the smartphone market that has already led to a flurry of lawsuits. Nokia filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) on Tuesday alleging that Apple infringes Nokia patents in "virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, and computers" sold. The seven patents at issue relate to Nokia technology being used by Apple to create features in user interface, camera, antenna and power management technologies, it said in a statement. A Nokia spokesman...

Apple Says Nokia Missed The Boat And “Chose To Copy The iPhone” Instead by Erick Schonfeld on December 11, 2009 Now that Apple has responded to Nokia’s patent lawsuit filed last October with its own countersuit today, we have a clearer picture of what the dispute is all about. As suspected, it is about money, specifically the patent licensing fees Nokia is trying to get out of Apple for wireless patents it holds and it alleges are infringed by the iPhone. But more broadly, it is about Nokia missing the boat on the shift from conventional phones to mobile computers...

Iranian consumers boycott Nokia for 'collaboration' Saeed Kamali Dehghan guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 14 July 2009 21.22 BST The mobile phone company Nokia is being hit by a growing economic boycott in Iran as consumers sympathetic to the post-election protest movement begin targeting a string of companies deemed to be collaborating with the regime. Wholesale vendors in the capital report that demand for Nokia handsets has fallen by as much as half in the wake of calls to boycott Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) for selling communications monitoring systems to Iran. There are signs that the boycott is spreading: consumers are shunning SMS...

The Iranian regime has developed, with the assistance of European telecommunications companies, one of the world's most sophisticated mechanisms for controlling and censoring the Internet, allowing it to examine the content of individual online communications on a massive scale. Interviews with technology experts in Iran and outside the country say Iranian efforts at monitoring Internet information go well beyond blocking access to Web sites or severing Internet connections. Instead, in confronting the political turmoil that has consumed the country this past week, the Iranian government appears to be engaging in a practice often called deep packet inspection, which enables authorities...

The role of the internet in Iran's recent unrest has been stunning; so too have been the regime's efforts to minimize it. Luckily for the government, Iran's networks are rigged for suppression, courtesy of Nokia and Siemens.The core of the regime's online efforts is a process called deep packet inspection, which essentially scans nearly all internet traffic for offending material and can give authorities the ability to block the offending communications or, more importantly, identify where they came from. As you can imagine, this is quite a terrifying prospect for protesters, journalists and dissidents. Here's how it happened: In...

Two European companies — a major contractor to the U.S. government and a top cell-phone equipment maker — last year installed an electronic surveillance system for Iran that human rights advocates and intelligence experts say can help Iran target dissidents. Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), a joint venture between the Finnish cell-phone giant Nokia and German powerhouse Siemens, delivered what is known as a monitoring center to Irantelecom, Iran's state-owned telephone company.

Pardon the cliche, but it's one of the holiest of Holy Grails of technology: Wireless power. And while early lab experiments have been able to "beam" electricity a few feet to power a light bulb, the day when our laptops and cell phones can charge without having to plug them in to a wall socket still seems decades in the future. Nokia, however, has taken another baby step in that direction with the invention of a cell phone that recharges itself using a unique system: It harvests ambient radio waves from the air, and turns that energy into usable power....

German politicians ditch their Nokias By Hugh Williamson in Berlin Published: January 18 2008 21:09 | Last updated: January 18 2008 21:09 German politicians on Friday declared that they were ditching their Nokia mobile phones as anger grew over the Finnish company’s decision to move a factory from Germany to Romania at the cost of 2,000 jobs. Peer Steinbrück, finance minister, accused Nokia, the world’s largest mobile phone maker, of “caravan capitalism” while a spokesman for Angela Merkel, the chancellor, said that she was expecting “more information” on Nokia’s motives. Many Germans appeared shocked at Nokia’s announcement earlier this week...

Anti-Nokia opinions gathering momentum in Germany Public exhorted to avoid buying Nokia handsets in the wake of Bochum closure decision Mobile phone manufacturer Nokia is running into heavy weather in Germany, as a veritable national movement is beginning to rise against the decision earlier this week to close the Nokia handset assembly plant in Bochum on the Ruhr. An anti-Nokia campaign is being put together with considerable alacrity. The decision to shut down the plant and move production to Romania threatens directly to put more than 2,000 people out of work, with a further two thousand jobs in jeopardy as...

A city in Finland best known as the namesake to mobile phone giant Nokia is floundering in filthy drinking water after a municipal employee sent thousands of gallons of sewage into the water supply. Thousands have fallen ill -- and the water is still dirty. The 30,000 residents of the small Finnish city of Nokia have long lived according to what city leaders describe as a "principle" etched in stone. "We walk in Nokia boots, we use Nokia toilet paper and we talk using Nokia phones," the saying goes. Indeed, for close to 150 years the city's fortunes have been...

(New Delhi) - Nokia, the world’s largest maker of mobile handsets, on Monday blamed fake batteries and tampered cell phones for explosion in its mobiles, while advising customers to use original components. “Our investigation shows that either the batteries were fake or tampered with,” D Shivakumar, managing director, Nokia India, said, while addressing a press conference in the National Capital. The Finnish company also mustered support from the Cellular Operators Association (COAI) and Indian Cellular Association (ICA). According to ICA President Anand Mahendroo, there is a large market of counterfeit batteries in India, all imported mostly from China. “Seventy to...

BEIJING: Mobile phone batteries that exploded in flames during tests by officials in southern China were counterfeit, spokeswomen for Nokia and Motorola said Saturday. The Guangdong Industrial and Commercial Administration's Web site said four batteries exploded while being recharged during quality tests, which flunked 40 percent of mobile phone batteries and 80 percent of chargers. The tests also found that of 40 locally purchased batteries, 15 had a smaller capacity that labeled, sometimes by as much as half. Motorola spokeswoman Mary Lamb told The Associated Press that Motorola immediately sent a team to Guangdong province and found that the tests...

Pak says no to Nokia phones made in Chennai April 19, 2007 18:21 IST Stretching its reservations on imports from India to multinational companies, Pakistan is understood to have informed mobile handset maker Nokia not to sell phones made in India in the Islamic nation. The reservations of Pakistan in receiving such mobile phones apparently were conveyed to Nokia through authorised cell phone distributors, who have asked the company not to ship Indian made handsets into Pakistan on the ground that consumers may not like it. The company, which has a facility near Chennai in south India, has accepted the...

Around 1:00am August 11th three men purchased cell phones from the Wal-Mart store on M-81 near the corner of M-24 in Caro. Wal-Mart places a limit on the number of cell phones that can be purchased at once, that number is three. The three men allegedly bought 80 by purchasing them three at time so that an alert wouldn't be triggered by the cash register. They also paid cash. An alert clerk grew suspicious and called Tuscola County central dispatch. The Caro Police Department sent a unit and stopped the rented van on M-81 just east of Caro. The suspects...

www.motorola.com and www.nokia.com are going head-to-head in the southern city of Madras, India. But, Nokia is throwing the bigger punches. Nokia announced plans to build a $150-million plant near Madras. Motorola countered with a plan to invest $100 million in a plant of its own. Where do these companies get all of this money? $150 mill, $100 mil, and yesterday Yahoo put up $60 mil to invest in South Korea. Could someone please drop a million near me, or invest in me? India is one of the fastest growing handset markets. Gee, I wonder what country is number one. Nokia...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Mobile handset giant Nokia (NOK1V.HE) sees the United States market as having importance out of proportion to its size in setting industry trends, its incoming chief executive said in remarks published on Friday. Success in the United States is more important than just the resulting revenues, said Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, who takes over from CEO Jorma Ollila in June, in an interview with Finnish weekly magazine Suomen Kuvalehti."The United States is especially important, because world trends originate there," he said."Many things spread elsewhere from there, rarely the other way round. If something succeeds in the United States, it...

Nokia has begun shipping its Linux-based Nokia 770, the so-called "Internet tablet", according to the Finnish giant's direct-sales website. The device lacks the usual Nokia mobile phone technology, relying instead on Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth to connect it to a broadband connectivity host. The 770 is pitched at consumers who want to access the Internet for emailing and web browsing anywhere in their home.

Biting the hand that feeds IT The Register » Mobile » Mobile Data » Original URL: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/08/31/nokia_mobile_tv/Nokia makes the case for mobile TV By Faultline (peter at rethinkresearch.biz) Published Wednesday 31st August 2005 12:39 GMT Nokia says that data from one of the world's first commercial mobile TV pilots in Helsinki, Finland shows that 41 per cent of pilot participants would be willing to purchase mobile TV services, and that a monthly fee of €10 ($12) is a reasonable price to pay.Over half (58 per cent) said that they believed broadcast mobile TV services would be popular. The trial was...

HELSINKI, Finland (AP) -- Nokia Corp. shares rose Monday after a report that Cisco Systems Inc. was interested in an acquisition in the wireless market and the Finnish mobile phone maker might be a target. Nokia shares were up 1.9 percent at 13.17 euros ($16.31) in early afternoon trading on the Helsinki exchange. The gains came after The Business newspaper in Britain reported Sunday that San Jose, Calif.-based Cisco is considering buying a wireless company, and that Nokia had been identified as the most likely target. The newspaper did not identify its sources, and Nokia declined to comment to The...

LONDON (Reuters) - Cisco Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:CSCO - news) is considering buying the world's top mobile handset maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE) in a bid to gain its wireless infrastructure technology, the Business newspaper reported on Sunday. The paper, which did not reveal the source of its information, said U.S.-based Cisco had traditionally concentrated on acquisitions of niche technology players, but its Chief Executive John Chambers is believed to be interested in merging with a wireless infrastructure company. "Nokia has been identified as the most likely target," the paper said. Cisco, the largest maker of Internet equipment, is worth around $123 billion,...