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Spotify launches application for Nokia phones

A Nokia smartphone. Swedish streaming software Spotify has announced the launch of a music application for the Symbian platform, used by the world's biggest mobile phone maker Nokia and other smartphones.
AFP - 2 hours 50 minutes ago

Swedish streaming software Spotify announced on Monday the launch of a music application for the Symbian platform, used by the world's biggest mobile phone maker Nokia and other smartphones. More »

  • A notebook, number 2 pencils, and the newest essential school supply in Uruguay: a laptop. The South American nation is the first and only country to guarantee every elementary school student attending government schools a portable computer. Duration: 01:56

    Laptop becomes reality for Uruguay's schoolchildren

    AFP - Monday, November 23

    A laptop is now finding its place alongside a notebook and pen in schoolbags in Uruguay, the first and only country to offer an Internet-connected computers to all public primary school students.

  • A sign hangs in the window of the AT&T Corporate Center, seen here in 2008, in Chicago, Illinois. South Korea's Samsung and Taiwan's Acer are teaming up with US telecom giant AT&T to introduce low-priced netbook computers for the holiday shopping season.

    Samsung, Acer team up with AT&T on netbooks

    AFP - Tuesday, November 17

    South Korea's Samsung and Taiwan's Acer are teaming up with US telecom giant AT&T to introduce low-priced netbook computers for the holiday shopping season.

  • A woman walks past an advertising poster hung up outside a mobile phone shop in downtown Hanoi in April 2009. Global sales of mobile phones reversed a slide that began late last year and turned positive in third quarter 2009, a trend expected to accelerate thanks to smartphones, a study disclosed Thursday.

    Mobile phone sales rise in 3rd quarter: study

    AFP - Friday, November 13

    Global sales of mobile phones reversed a slide that began late last year and turned positive in third quarter 2009, a trend expected to accelerate thanks to smartphones, a study disclosed Thursday.

  • The headquarters of Nokia in Espoo, Finland, seen in January 2008. Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, issued on Monday a global recall for 14 million chargers made this year because some of them could be faulty.

    Nokia recalls 14m potentially dangerous chargers

    AFP - Tuesday, November 10

    Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, issued on Monday a global recall for 14 million chargers made this year because some of them could be faulty.

  • The Nokia headquarters in Espoo, Finland. Nokia -- the world's biggest mobile phone maker -- has issued a global recall for 14 million faulty chargers made by a subcontractor.

    Nokia recalls millions of dangerous chargers

    AFP - Tuesday, November 10

    Nokia, the world's biggest mobile phone maker, issued on Monday a global recall for 14 million faulty chargers made by a subcontractor this year.

  • Droid joins 'Google phone' army in smart phone war

    AFP - Friday, November 6

    A Motorola Droid smart phone goes on sale Friday, joining the growing ranks of smart phones on the open-source operating system backed by Google.