API 5G SA enhancements from Nokia and Telefonica
Wednesday, August 14, 2024 by Brittany Hainzinger
Telefonica and Nokia announced an agreement to jointly explore new opportunities leveraging 5G Standalone (SA) capabilities for network APIs to support developers in creating new use cases for consumer, enterprise, and industrial customers.
Through this agreement, Telefonica will harness Nokia's NEF for various purposes that enable developers to access the operat...
Network as Code platform launched by Nokia
Wednesday, June 26, 2024 by Richard Harris
Nokia announced that it is expanding its collaboration with Google Cloud to give developers around the world the network software tools they need to create innovative new 5G enterprise and consumer applications faster for their customers.
Now, Nokia’s Network as Code platform with a developer portal will run on Google Cloud, enriching the developer experience v...
Network exposure platform from Nokia
Tuesday, June 18, 2024 by Freeman Lightner
Nokia announced Network Exposure Platform, a new software offering that will expand and simplify the number of APIs available to operators, their partners, and customer channels to enable the creation of network powered applications for consumer, enterprise, and industrial customers.
Nokia Network Exposure Platform (NEP) is the first implementation of the&...
Nokia selected by NASA to build cellular network on the Moon
Tuesday, October 20, 2020 by Brittany Hainzinger
Nokia Bell Labs’ pioneering innovations will be used to build and deploy the first ultra-compact, low-power, space-hardened, end-to-end LTE solution on the lunar surface in late 2022. Nokia is partnering with Intuitive Machines for this mission to integrate this groundbreaking network into their lunar lander and deliver it to the lunar surface. The network will se...
Nokia Unveils First Ever N1 Tablet After Speculations Of A Sequel To Its TV Streaming Product Release
Wednesday, November 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Nokia's new N1 Tablet is the company's first-ever Android tablet. The N1 Tablet was released just days following speculations that an additional TV streaming product release would be launched. N1 delivers simplicity, clean design and a personalized experience which is a competitive offering compared to uniform complex devices. The company’s tablet was released...
Vserv.mobi and Microsoft Woo App Developers on Nokia X
Tuesday, June 17, 2014 by Richard Harris
Vserv.mobi and the Nokia X Developer Relations team at Microsoft UK have announced a new competition as part of their ongoing global DVLUP collaboration, to boost the efforts of the Nokia X developer community in Europe.The competition is designed to help and encourage app developers expand their Nokia X development efforts and maximize their monetization opportuni...
Android Market Too Big to Ignore so Nokia Debuts Nokia X Android Platform
Tuesday, February 25, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Microsoft might own Nokia, but Android rules for mobile apps (sorry Apple) and thus Nokia has debuted new smartphones running the Nokia X software platform based on the Android Open Source Project.Nokia’s recent announcement included a number of new details, which made it somewhat confusing unless you paid close attention, which we did. The Android OS is obvio...
Nokia DVLUP Program Offers Window’s App Developers Chance to Win Swag
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Weird name, cool prizes. If you developing for Windows Phone you might as well get as much swag as possible and you might just do so with new announcements from DVLUP, the developer loyalty program from Nokia.
DVLUP uses a gamification model to create a competitive environment to build Windows Phone apps. Developers can earn badges and experience points (known as “XP”)...
Watch Out! Windows and Nokia Phones Making Serious Inroads in Europe
Monday, November 4, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
If you like competition, this news has made things a lot more interesting in the smartphone trenches! According to the latest data form Kantar Worldpanel ComTech from July – September 2013, Windows and Nokia now represent one out of every ten sales in UK, Germany, France, Italy and Spain.
Even more amazing, the company reports that Windows has overtaken iOS in Italy. A...
New Nokia Phones and Tablet Take Advantage of Windows 8.1 HD
Thursday, October 24, 2013 by Richard Harris
On the heals of Microsoft’s announcement of its available 1080p resolution made available to developers through the Windows Phone 8 Update 3, Nokia goes HD in a big way with the Lumina 1520 and 1320 phones with 6-inch full HD 1080p HD screens.
The new HD display offers a new opportunity to super size the Windows phone start screen with room for three large or six small...
Weekly Roundup: New iPhone Arrives, Lagoa and 3DTin, Vision Mobile Report, Nokia Create Contest, and Jolla Sailfish
Saturday, September 21, 2013 by Richard Harris
Top Stories for the week of 9/21/2013Assets for App Creation: Leveraging Visual and Audio Resources for App DevelopersWhen it comes to software development, there are two sides of the creative coin, artistic creativity and technical creativity. Visual design and in some cases audio expertise dominate one side of the coin with skilled graphic designers and artists who de...
Microsoft Buys Nokia What Does it Mean for App Developers
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
By now you’ve probably heard that Microsoft has purchased Nokia’s mobile phone business. Simple numbers show the deal makes sense with 86% of the Windows 8 phone market owned by Nokia.
So our question for app developers is, what does it mean for Microsoft’s mobile efforts and how does it affect the app development community/mobile marketplace?
At quick g...
Delta Outfits Flight Attendants with 19,000 Nokia Lumia 820 Smartphones
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 by Richard Harris
Nokia, Microsoft and AT&T have scored a big enterprise mobile win and the friendly skies just got a lot more mobile as over 19,000 Nokia Lumia 820 smartphones were put in Delta flight attendant’s hands to facilitate on board purchases.
Passengers can purchase food and drinks, in-flight upgrades and more with a swipe of a credit card with the phone’s external reader...
Nokia Dominates 86 percent of Windows 8 Phone Market According to AdDuplex
Tuesday, September 3, 2013 by Richard Harris
AdDuplex, a cross-promotion network for Windows Phone and Windows 8 apps, has released its August installment of its Windows Phone statistics report which shows that Nokia is the undisputed king of Windows 8 Phones with an 86% market share.
The report is based on data collected from 1,009 Windows Phone apps running AdDuplex SDK v.2. In the report the Nokia Lumia 520 i...
Nokia Launches Cloud Powered App Enabled In Dash Navigation System
Friday, August 30, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
Nokia has announced HERE Auto, an embedded in-dash navigation system and the HERE Auto Companion app powered by the Cloud.
The system will provide the standard expectations of a embedded system including offers voice guided turn-by-turn navigation, places search and collections, different map views, 3D landmarks, speed limit and speed camera warnings and even traffic ...
Nokia Releases Asha SDK 1.0 for Java App Developers
Friday, August 16, 2013 by Stuart Parkerson
The Nokia Asha SDK 1.0 has been released from beta and is now available for Java developers who want to launches apps for the Nokia Asha 501. Support is accessible for 47 languages and the Tantalum library, along with the latest versions of the LWUIT and HERE Maps APIs.
The new SDK emulator provides full UI interaction, user apps, messaging, and network...
Nokia Promotes Windows Phone App Development in China
Friday, July 26, 2013 by Richard Harris
Nokia has announced that it is partnering with China Mobile to host a contest for app developers in China to encourage Windows app development.
According to a report by China Tech News, the contest has a goal of encouraging the launch of 1,000 apps in the Windows App Store....
New Nokia Imaging SDK for Lumia 1020
Thursday, July 25, 2013 by Richard Harris
In conjunction with the announcement of the new Lumia 1020, Nokia has introduced a new Imaging SDK to encourage developers take advantage of Nokia's newest imaging technology.
Built on the foundation of Windows Phone 8, the new SDK is a native Windows Phone 8 library developers can use in any of their new or existing Windows Phone 8 projects. ...
Telerik and Nokia to Host First Annual Boston Hackathon
Sunday, April 7, 2013 by Richard Harris
Close to 300 developers will gather to learn about the latest in Windows Phone application developmentWaltham, MA – April 3, 2013 – Telerik, the end-to-end provider of software development, lifecycle and content management tools and solutions, is announcing today the first-annual Boston Hackathon, taking place April 13-14, held by Telerik and sponsored by Noki...
MWC 2013 Nokia highlights and awards
Friday, March 1, 2013 by Richard Harris
If MWC were the Oscars, no doubt Nokia would be one of the most talked about winners of the night! They had many new announcements at the show, and walked away with several awards. Here are the highlights.AnnouncementsOn Monday they introduced the Nokia Lumia 520, the Nokia Lumia 720, the Nokia 301 and the Nokia 105. They also announced the HERE suite (HERE Maps, H...
Nokia helps Windows Phone grow to over 16 percent marketshare in Poland
Thursday, February 28, 2013 by Richard Harris
Marc Toumelin, who is head of the regional department of Windows Phone at Microsoft announced at The Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this year, that Poland has one of the highest Windows Phone market shares in the world, at 16.3%. That is double that of Central and Eastern Europe, which already has a pretty good Windows Phone market share of 7.8%...
