Apple regained some popularity in the mobile sector

Between last November and January, Apple returned to take the place of the number one manufacturer of mobile phones for the U.S.. The market share of the company on the block marked by 37.8% according to data collected by comScore MobiLens. Samsung once again stood in the second place, increasing its share to 21.4%, a slight improvement when compared with the previous two quarters.
The two giants of the market for mobile phones managed to improve their marks at the expense of HTC and Motorola, who fell by 1.7% and 1.4% respectively. LG managed to slightly improve its share, which rose by just 0.3 %.
In terms of operating systems, Android is still obviously winning platform with a share of 52.3%, but that means it has had a slight decrease compared to the previous room. IOS has improved slightly, increasing by 3 percentage , 5%. In fact, iOS was the only platform which improved its share, for the rest, that is Windows Phone, BlackBerry and Symbian, suffered losses.
It is expected that this new room BlackBerry able to improve its brand with the launch of BlackBerry 10.

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Nokia starts to see progress

 

It seems that all the hard work Nokia has finally begun to bear fruit. The company has released its financial report for 2012 and the fourth quarter of that year. In his report, says Nokia has sold 4.4 million units of smartphones Lumia, 9.3 million units of smartphones Asha and 2.2 million mobile units that run on Symbian. Overall, the benefits reaped by the company sales are located in the $ 580 million approximately.

Something that has contributed much to the recovery of Nokia is Nokia Siemens Networks infrastructure which has provided more than $ 330 million in profits.

The company's CEO, Stephen Elop, said that all the hard work is aimed to improve the financial situation as possible.

How do you think Nokia will fare in this new year we are starting?

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Google removes 5 ​​of their services

 

As usual Google every so decide to eliminate some services that have not been well accepted by the public, and this time through his blog has announced it will eliminate five services, Google Mini, Google Talk Chatback, the search application in Symbian , iGoogle and Google Video.
 

iGoogle was launched in 2005 and worked by way of personalized website, where users were free to set up a scheme where they can place news, videos and social networking content to not miss a single detail.

Google Video, a service will also be sent to oblivion by Google in the coming months, although since 2009 it began to show signs of its demise, when Google removed the ability to upload new videos to this system.

And if you're a user of Google Video, the company gives you the option to move your videos to YouTube, where your settings will be placed in private by default. Also, if you're interested to be part of YouTube, you can download your videos or eliminate them altogether.

Google Mini, a search service for businesses, will stop working on 31 July. There, businesses that use it can replace or Commerce Site Search Search. The company has pledged to provide technical assistance to the end of contracts.

Chatback Google Talk will also be deleted. The service allowed to insert a Google Talk widget site to get live feedback from visitors of the portal. Instead, Google recommends using the Meebo bar (a service you just bought).

Finally, the company will kill the search application in Symbian mobile operating system owned by Nokia. Users can use the search engine and other Google services directly entering the site from the browser software

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A spin of Nokia smartphones will bring Meego

 

HELSINKI (Reuters) - A new Finnish company formed by former employees from Nokia and discarded technology used by mobile phone maker, plans to launch its first smartphone later this year, thus entering a market already saturated.
The 'startup', Jolla, Meegan will use the software, developed by Nokia and Intel between 2010 and 2011, for their products.
Based on the Linux operating system, Meegan has found use in netbooks and infotainment systems in cars, but so far only been installed on a smartphone model, the Nokia N9.
Finland's Nokia last year changed its own software platform, MeeGo and Symbian, Windows Phone from Microsoft, still unproven, a move that affected their sales and brought down the price of its shares. Yet to disclose sales figures N9.
"The team Jolla consists of managers and professionals of the organization, Nokia Meego, along with some of the improvements Meego minds working in the communities," said the new company in a statement.
Jolla said he would focus on the design, development and sales of new smartphones based on software Meego and submit its first model later this year, along with private international investors and partners.
Analysts said the new company would have trouble getting a smartphone market highly competitive, which is dominated by Google and Apple.
"Art is not to create a cool phone, the challenge is to create a sustainable business. And when you have everything in place, is when it takes the product to market," said John Strand, founder of the Danish telecoms consultancy Strand Consult.

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