News

• Nokia files cases against HTC One in the US

  Nokia is targeting HTC's latest slate of smartphones, including the HTC One, with new legal action in the U.S. that demands the Taiwanese company cease the alleged patent infringement.

• The iPhone's big lead in customer satisfaction is gone

  Apple's dominance in smartphone customer satisfaction faded last year, with rivals like Samsung and Motorola dramatically closing the gap, a national survey said today.

• Nokia's Lumia 925 will use aluminium frame as antenna, go on sale in June

  Nokia's new Lumia 925 phone has an aluminium frame that functions as an antenna, and is lighter and thinner than the Lumia 920, but otherwise offers similar performance to its predecessor.

• Nokia's Lumia 928 to sell via Verizon on May 16

  Nokia has announced the long-rumored Lumia 928, which will be an exclusive to Verizon Wireless when it goes on sale next week.

• Nokia hopes new interface on Asha 501 will prop up phone business

  Nokia has expanded its line of phones with the Asha 501, which comes with an improved touch user interface to help keep low-cost Android-based products at bay.

• Nokia takes on Apple and Samsung with clip of Lumia 928's low-light video capabilities

  Nokia has posted a video comparing the camera on the Lumia 928 with the Galaxy S III and the iPhone 5, as it gets ready to launch the phone.

• Nokia teases Lumia 928 but still mum on launch date

  Nokia has confirmed the upcoming launch of the long-rumored Lumia 928, with a website that hints at advanced camera features.

• SAP launches ride-sharing app TwoGo

  SAP has expanded its foray into corporate sustainability with the release of a carpooling application called TwoGo.

• For first time, smartphone sales top other mobile phones in first quarter

  Six years after the sale of the first iPhone and 14 years after the first BlackBerry email pager was unveiled, smartphone shipments have outnumbered sales of other types of mobile phones.

• Nokia banks on social integration to help boost mobile phone sales

  Nokia's latest advanced feature phone, the Asha 210, comes with a physical key to access WhatsApp messaging, as well as software clients for Twitter and Facebook.

• Nokia set to unveil new smartphone with QWERTY keyboard

  Nokia is planning to unveil a new smartphone with a physical, QWERTY keyboard, it has been revealed.

• Nokia wins injunction blocking sales of microphones for HTC One

  Nokia has accused supplier STMicroelectronics of selling microphones Nokia says it developed to rival HTC, and on Monday won an injunction in the Amsterdam District Court preventing their sale.

• Nokia sees improving Windows Phone sales and shrinking loss in Q1

  Nokia's sales of smartphones running Windows Phone continued to grow in the first quarter, and its net loss shrank year on year, even as overall revenue declined.

• Nokia launches budget Lumia 520

  Nokia's low cost Lumia 520 Windows Phone will be available in Australia this month, the company announced today.

• Rackspace challenges lawsuit-happy patent holder

  Cloud hosting provider Rackspace Hosting is striking back against patent holder Rotatable Technologies, a Texas company that has filed patent infringement cases against more than a dozen companies in the past year.