The federal government is expected to rule any day now on whether Google’s acquisition of AdMob should be approved. The concern is that the two companies will create a monopoly in the space before it even gets off the ground. We’ve made the case before on why the FTC should…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has filed another lawsuit against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), this time alleging that the iPhone and the iPad 3G infringe on five of its most important patents. The suit, filed in Federal District Court in the Western District of Wisconsin, is just the latest legal battle between the…

The global smartphone market saw its best quarter for the first time in almost three years, according to Strategy Analytics, a research firm. It found that global smartphone shipments jumped by a gigantic 50 percent to 54 million in Q1 from 36 million in the year-ago period. Smartphones accounted for…

The biggest takeaway from a report published by Millennial Media today is that smartphone users are consuming more content—and therefore more ads—on nearly every smartphone and connected device available in the market. —Android ad requests grew 72 percent in March month over month.—iPad impressions increased 713 percent in the first…

First Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), then HP… is Nokia now planning its own tablet computer? Yes, according to Rodman and Renshaw analyst Ashok Kumar… “Right now, the supply chain is being primed up for a fall release,” Kumar says (via Reuters). “It has to be on the shelf by September-October to…

U.S. consumers are not only buying phones with touchscreens, but they are tending to be more satisfied with the experience than people who bought phones with physical keyboards, according to a J.D. Power and Associates’ wireless satisfaction survey released today. It found that more than half of the respondents said…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has improved the way it measures the global device market, including coming up with a better way to calculate the number of unlicensed and counterfeit products being sold in the market. Given that, Nokia went back and recalculated the industry’s overall performance last year and how it…

It’s long been known that Nokia’s had a hard time selling its popular devices in the U.S. But its latest smartphones coming have a series of enhancements that it hopes will make it more competitive. The phones will run the latest version of the open source operating system, “Symbian^3,” which…

The International Trade Commission will have first dibs on deciding whether Nokia (NYSE: NOK) or Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) are infringing on each others’ patents, a federal judge has decided. Yesterday, a Judge in Delaware agreed to put the patent claims between Apple and Nokia on hold, pending a resolution before…

This is one slugfest sure to carry on into 2010. Nokia yesterday requested an investigation against Apple with U.S. regulator the International Trade Commission. This is the biggest complaint yet in a legal dispute between the two companies, which started when the two failed to reach agreement in mobile licensing…

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is countersuing Nokia (NYSE: NOK), charging the Finnish cell phone maker with infringing on 13 iPhone-related patents. About two months ago, Nokia sued Apple, accusing it of illegally using 10 Nokia-patented technology standards in the iPhone since its 2007 launch, including wireless data, speech coding, security and…

You might call it a case of: “if you can’t beat ‘em, sue ‘em”. Finnish mobile giant Nokia (NYSE: NOK) filed a lawsuit against Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) on Thursday on grounds that the iPhone maker has used Nokia’s mobile technology without permission. The case is filed in the Federal District…

Free unlimited music for more than a year seemed like a good proposition, but, nine months after its launch, Nokia’s Comes With Music bundle is not proving particularly popular with consumers. In July, the scheme had just 107,227 users across the nine countries in which it’s launched, according to figures…

Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) has secured relationships will Research In Motion, Windows Mobile, Palm (NSDQ: PALM) and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) to roll out full Flash capabilities to the various smartphone platforms. With such a complete line-up, the only obvious phone remaining is Apple’s iPhone. At the company’s worldwide developer conference in…

After nearly a week of radio silence since the first rumour of the deal, Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has now confirmed it’s acquiring Dopplr, the two-year-old social network for international travellers. Neither terms nor price were announced. And that also goes for detail on exactly why Nokia is doing the deal.…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have added another location service to its collection. TechCrunch is reporting that the handset company has acquired Dopplr, the social travel network, for $15-20 million. Nokia, already in the news for a rumor that it’s interested in buying Palm (NSDQ: PALM), has the usual no comment…

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has purchased Plum, a platform used to create private social networks. In a brief statement, the mobile giant said little about its plans for the startup, noting only that the company would “complement Nokia’s Social Location services.” But Nokia said just last week that it was looking…

On the final day of Nokia’s own Nokia (NYSE: NOK) World event in Stuttgart, Germany, the handset maker announced it was making its maps available to developers so that they could integrate directions into their applications and mobile internet services. Nokia executives also answered journalists’ questions about the company’s struggling…

The iPhone may have all the buzz, but BlackBerry-maker Research In Motion is growing at a much faster clip. In fact, RIM’s growth rates are the fastest of any U.S.-listed company according to Fortune Magazine. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is well down the list, at No. 39. The magazine ranked companies…