Nokia escapes flames, now swimming to leaky life raft

The official Nokia blog says it is now official – Nokia is getting hitched to Microsoft! You have to love the joint announcement so soon after the so-called ‘leaked memo’ from Nokia CEO, and supposedly ex-Microsoft man, Stephen Elop. The rhetoric is pure...

Knock-knock Nokia, anybody home?

Nokia has been hitting the headlines in the past week, but not always for the right reasons. Firstly, speculation in the NewYork Times about an enhanced alliance with Microsoft (the first was announced back in 2009 but little came of it except that the Microsoft...

World's most useless app?

EyeCall, running on Nokia 3G handsets, would have to be up there as one of the most useless apps ever developed for a mobile device.  Even the name has nothing to do with what it does. The application enables the user to silence an incoming call and send a auto-text...

Whither Nokia Now?

As Nokia opens its Ovi download store, the former darling of the handset industry and the once doyen of network infrastructure, seems to be trapped somewhere between a rock and a hard place. News that is has trimmed its workforce by another thousand and is cutting...