Nokia has chosen Stephen Elop to become its next CEO. But Nokia has seen its market share fall in the past three years, and Elop takes the job with virtually no experience in handsets, turnarounds, or meaningful innovation.
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JPMorgan Chase may allow employees to use the Apple iPhone for work email, making the smartphone an alternative to the BlackBerry. JPMorgan is testing the iPhone as well as smartphones that use Google’s Android software.
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Americans’ thirst for applications for hand-held devices will overcome any resistance they have to mobile advertisements, creating a profit opportunity for both applications publishers and operating-system owners.
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After much criticism about its capriciousness, Apple has published new guidelines to help developers know what sort of apps are likely to get approved or rejected. Sounds good. But if anything, they only add to the confusion.
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About one-sixth of the world’s population will have subscriptions to mobile-broadband service in five years as Internet-surfing smartphone owners will be joined by more people looking for portable broadband Internet service thr…