Nokia Microsoft’s Latest Aquisition

Microsoft has purchased the mobile phone arm of Nokia, bringing production of the handsets which carry the Windows 8 OS in house. The £4.6billion acquisition was confirmed in the early days of September, with Microsoft’s aim obvious , catch up with Apple and Google, the new tech giants. Is Nokia Microsoft’s latest tool to play…

BlackBerry Crumble

It was only in January that BlackBerry announced the latest incarnation of their software, BB10, which was meant to reignite the declining platform’s success. With new hardware to go along with the new OS, it was the moment chief executive Thorsten Heins hoped would be a turnaround for the company’s fortunes, but things have seemingly…

What is NFC To Do Without Apple?

Just over three weeks ago, when Apple unveiled iOS7   and revealed that the “biggest change” the iPhone had ever gone through would not include the addition of near field communication (NFC), Matt Witheilder of Flybridge Capital Partners wrote a blog on how Apple’s decision may have killed NFC. He wrote “I’m finally calling this…