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Two of the biggest mobile phone firms foolish enough not to have invented the iPhone have delivered very bad news this morning, with both Nokia and Sony Ericsson suffering declines in sales and revenues. Nokia has posted revenues of €9.9 billion for Q2’09, down 25 per cent year-on-year, but up …
Read More »Nokia closes N-Gage studio
Nokia has shut down its Vancouver-based game studio, affecting some 100 jobs in the process, Develop understands. Nokia’s N-Gage Design Studio in Vancouver had developed a significant number of titles for the first and second generation N-Gage systems, as well as for mobile phones. The group worked on franchises such …
Read More »Nokia closes Canadian studio
Company axes its N-Gage development outfit, affecting some 100 jobs
Read More »Nokia opens Ovi content portal
Nokia has opened the doors to its much-anticipated Ovi Store, which it hopes will steal some of the mobile app initiative back from Apple. Customers can update their devices with the Ovi Store mobile app (Nokia says it is compatible with more than 50 million S60 and S40 handsets globally) …
Read More »Further job losses at troubled Nokia
Nokia has announced that a further 490 employees will be joining the 3,500 who have already lost their jobs as the telephony behemoth attempts to head off an anticipated decline in the mobile market. Reuters reports that 170 positions are to be lost in logistics, production management and production support …
Read More »Is this the end for Nokia N-Gage?
Nokia’s previous claims that its N-Gage game platform would not be merged with its growing Ovi app store have been cast into doubt following the announcement of new plans to ‘create a better user experience in the Nokia ecosystem’. As part of the announced changes, all mobile games will now …
Read More »Nokia profits plunge 90%
2009 has proved to be a testing time for Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia, with the telecoms specialist reporting a 90 per cent fall in profits for Q1 2009. Net profits reached €122m, heavily down on the €1.2bn in the same period in 2008. Sales were also down, dropping 27 …
Read More »GameHorizon Conference confirms new speakers
One day left for 'super' early bird tickets
Read More »‘Your platforms are not working,’ Young tells Sony and Nokia
GDC 09: SCEA, Facebook, MySpace, Apple and N-Gage format holders lock horns
Read More »Motion control gaming heading to N-Gage
Perhaps its a case of ‘if you can’t beat ’em join ’em’ – Nokia has taken a leaf out of Nintendo’s book for a new strategy of motion controlled games on N-Gage. The first game to take advantage of the new functions is an upgraded version 3D game Bounce Boing …
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