Nokia has earned in the fourth quarter of fiscal 2010, a lower profit than in the comparable period last year. Between October and December, it shrank by 21 percent to 745 million euros. Already in the third fiscal quarter the company had reported a decline. Sales rose in the fourth quarter, however, by 6 percent [...]

Apple last night released a second update for iTunes 10.1. Version 10.1.2 provides the release notes that “several key improvements in stability and performance.” What this is accurate, Apple is silent, however. Only thing is that iTunes 10.1.2 supports the CDMA variant of the iPhone 4, which will distribute the U.S. mobile operator Verizon in [...]

The OpenOffice offshoot LibreOffice is now also available as a portable version available. It is a full-featured office suite that can be run from removable media, or from the cloud. LibreOffice Portable contains all the features of last week released version 3.3 of the free office software. With the help of technology from PortableApps.com allows [...]

O2 offers from 1 February, a new mobile data plan for business customers. For € 14.28 you can use the “laptop Flat S” go for one month unlimited online via a laptop. The minimum contract term is two years. From a consumption of 1.2 GB, the bandwidth is reduced until the end of the billing [...]

Daniel Domscheit-Berg Wikileaks OpenLeaks alternative is entering a phase of alpha participate in his own words of a handful of media organizations and nonprofit organizations. The website is now online. The beta phase will start in the second half of 2011. Just yesterday, unveiling the platform Cryptome.org a PDF online has been showing a part [...]

According to the latest figures from Canalys, the computer industry in the fourth quarter of 2010, 105.8 million computers sold. This represents an increase of 19 percent. With 241 percent certified by the company Apple’s biggest growth. However, relate to market researchers alongside a notebook, Tablet, which they call themselves “pads”, in their analysis. “Pads [...]

Software AG increased its net profit in the fourth quarter of 2010 increased compared to the same period last year by 35 percent to 64.7 million euros. The earnings per share improved by 38 percent to 2.28 euros. Both are historical highs, as is evident from the balance sheet released today by the Darmstadt-based software [...]

Gartner expects that this year 17.7 billion users in mobile applications from online marketplaces like Apple’s App Store or Google’s Android Market download. This represents an increase of 117 percent over the previous year. 2010 Gartner estimates the number of App Downloads to 8.2 billion. The sector’s turnover this year will exceed $ 15.1 billion [...]

Google’s Android development team has released a preview version of the software development kit (SDK) for the upcoming Android mobile operating system 3.0, code-named “Honeycomb” (honeycomb). Some details in the announcement to give the impression that the Google developers split off from the existing honeycomb want to Android development. Experts speak of a “fork” (fork). [...]

Nintendo President Satoru Iwata (Photo: News.com) With declining sales of Wii and DS is Nintendo’s financial results also declined drastically. In a report today (PDF), the company reported for the nine month period to 31 December 2010 sales of almost 808 billion yen (7 billion €), 31.7 percent less than in the previous year (1.18 [...]

IBM has expanded its partnership with Ariba. In addition, another agreement was signed with SugarCRM, a commercially distributed open source customer relationship management. The next step on this basis, Ariba Discovery is to be integrated into LotusLive, IBM’s Web-based collaboration platform. Paying subscribers of LotusLive thus get access to 325,000 vendors in the business-to-business segment. [...]

The New York Times (NYT) is 31 January its first e-book publishing. The title: “Open Secrets: AMD, American diplomacy and war.” This is characterized by the NYT claims to be the “definitive chronicle of the publication of the Wikileaks documents” for – “and the controversy it has sparked.” The e-book contains, among other things, large [...]

Mobility Motorola has delivered its first figures as a separate company. The former mobile phone division, Motorola has earned in the fourth quarter 2010 sales of $ 3.4 billion (2.5 billion euros), 21 percent more than the same period last year. The profit is 80 million dollars (58 million euros). In the last quarter of [...]

ABI Research has produced an estimate that in 2011 approximately two billion controller chips have been sold for wireless technologies. That would mean an increase of 22 percent compared to the year 2009 and was primarily attributable to Netbooks and tablets, according to the study. Bluetooth makes for 60 percent of the market. Analyst Celia [...]

O2 is from 1 February to offer a new mobile data plan, with unlimited clients go with the laptop online. The “Internet-Pack-Special” is priced at six-month minimum term 15 € per month. From a consumption of 1 GB of bandwidth is reduced until the end of the billing period of 2 Mbit / s (UMTS) [...]