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• Apple's grandiose plans for the iPhone

  Posted Jul 10 2008, 06:27 AM by Douglas McIntyre
  Filed under: Google, Microsoft, Apple, Nokia
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  Steve Jobs sees that smartphones -- especially the Apple iPhone -- are the future of computing.  Who needs a PC when a handset will do?

  To get to Jobs' goals, Apple "will open its App Store, an online bazaar that will attempt to do for mobile applications like games, reference guides and other software what Apple's iTunes Store has done for music," according to The Wall Street Journal. Jobs calls his new phone a "computing platform."

  Apple may have gone a bridge too far.   Read More...

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• Nokia takes on Google with Symbian buy

  Posted Jun 24 2008, 06:41 AM by Kim Peterson
  Filed under: Google, Apple, Nokia, Research in Motion, wireless
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  Nokia is buying Symbian, a company that makes operating systems for mobile phones. Nokia already uses Symbian software in its smartphones, so the move isn't a huge surprise. But in an unexpected twist, Nokia is going to make Symbian open and royalty-free for software developers. In doing so the company is clearly going after Google for the future of mobile phone systems.

  Nokia was already paying Symbian some $250 million a year to use Symbian's software in phones, analysts say. So buying Symbian outright for $410 million is smart business. Nokia shares were up slightly in morning trading to $24.48, and Google shares are down just slightly to $543.36.   Read More...

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