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Research in Motion, reeling as its BlackBerry takes a beating from the Apple iPhone and assorted Android smartphones , is expected to lay off anywhere from 2,000 to 6,000 employees to cut costs and turn around its financial fortunes .

May 28, 2012 -- Last February, Nokia and Microsoft forged a game changing partnership to collaborate on the Windows Phone platform.

"The popularity of Android and iOS stems from a combination of factors that the competition has struggled to keep up with," says IDC's Mobile Phone Technology and Trends program senior research analyst Ramon Llamas.

Smartphones powered by the Android and iOS mobile operating systems accounted for more than eight out of ten smartphones shipped in the first quarter of 2012 .

Nokia have released a new video documenting the creation of the Nokia Pureview 808 from concept all the way to final production.

When you're under pressure to produce a well designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there's no time to reinvent the wheel.

I win the popular vote, but can't seem to win the argument as I continue to support the Windows Phone platform in ZDNet Great Debates.

Barcode scanning specialist, ScanLife , has just released its latest [Q1 2012] report on mobile barcode trends.

Samsung has become the clear leader in sales of Android smartphones as Gartner today reported that it accounted for 40% of worldwide Android sales in the first quarter of 2012.

Google's Android OS saw substantial growth year over year, from 36.4 percent to 56.1 percent, while Apple's iOS also grew from 16.9 percent to 22.9 percent, according to Gartner.

Android continued its relentless march on the mobile market in the first quarter of 2012, making up 56% of world smartphone shipments as that sector grew by 44.7% to 144.4m, even while the overall world market for mobile phones shrank by 2% year-on-year to 419m, according to new data from research company Gartner.

Override User Agent is a Firefox user agent switcher that lives on your add-on bar.

With Nokia's Lumia 900 launch well underway, I have gotten a lot of questions from the press about Nokia, Microsoft, Nokia's marketing strategy, Microsoft's marketing strategy, and its chances of success.

You all know I'm a fan of the Web doing the job of an application - remember ' There's a bookmark for that ', from 2010? Over the last couple of years I've dipped into YouTube's mobile-optimised web site, m.youtube.com , watching it get better and better.

A new Visual Studio plug in SeeTest for mobile testing. You can use Visual Studio to test real physical phones including iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile and Symbian.

Much of the talk this week at CTIA has centered around the best and brightest mobile handsets poised to hit the market.

During CTIA, Nokia USA President Chris Weber confirmed that the struggling mobile phone manufacturer and previous world #1 in terms of devices shipped would indeed sell the company's latest and possibly last Symbian flagship device in the 808 PureView after its debut during Mobile World Congress earlier this year was met with more questions than ... (more)

Never mind the variety of Twitter clients for Symbian, it seems that all you really need is the Web browser on Symbian phones these days.

With a history going back many years , the Carnival of the Mobilists has always been a good source of mobile-related reading and this week the blog article roundup includes two of our own features, happily.

When you're under pressure to produce a well designed, easy-to-navigate mobile app, there's no time to reinvent the wheel.