Entries tagged with “operationg systems” from WIRELESS AND MOBILE NEWS

pen Source Operating System Research from Juniper Research found that operating systems and applications are playing an increasingly important role in the differentiation of new smartphones and a key factor in the choice of which handset choice by users.  They predict Smartphones shipped with open source operating systems (OS) will increase from 106 million this year to 223 million by 2014

The last three years has seen a revolution in the OS market with market leader Symbian moving to open source and Apple leading the way in the distribution of applications through their innovative, but now widely copied, AppStore approach. The move to open-source OS has also encouraged developers to design new and attractive applications and with over 60% of the OS market is now based on open-source, and a sizeable pool of software design talent out there, there is a massive opportunity for innovation.

However, the real key is not whether the OS is open-source but whether it's easy for a developer to design an application and make money from that effort. The combined changes of Apple's open route to the market and LiMo, OHA and Symbian's open-source OS approach have generated a tidal wave-like effect which even the economic downturn has been unable to reverse.

Nokia and NAVTEQ today announced that Nokia will acquire NAVTEQ, aChicago-based digitalmapping company that licenses  content to global positioning systems and Web sites.

"With NAVTEQ, Nokia will further strengthen its location based services(LBS) offering and bringtomarket the most innovative, context aware Nokia Internet services with accelerated time to market,"states Nokia's announcement.

GPS is important to mobile handsets The Gartner Group forecasts that GPS handsets will represent around 40% of sales in 2011, up from 13% in 2007.

Nokia has been offering more Internet devices and recently acquired mobile ad company EnPocket.