Nokia News

A Nokia-backed study reports that smartphone users cluster into distinct categories according the apps they use, with implications for both social science and profile-driven marketing.

A growing crop of security apps are helping to protect smartphones from cyber-criminal threats, as popularity of mobile devices now outsell PCs.

Revenue from mobile apps will more than triple this year, with growth surging more than 1,000 percent between 2010 and 2014, according to research firm Gartner.

Apple more than doubled the amount of apps of its nearest rival to about 300,000 programs, but competitors like Google, Research in Motion and Nokia showed faster growth, according to research firm Distimo.

Nokia is working on a series of new applications that "transform" phones based on various situations users are in.

Nokia has been aggressively courting application developers, in a move to reinvigorate the company's presence in the smartphone market.

Nokia and Intel today said they are teaming up to create 3D applications for smartphones running their MeeGo software, as the companies hope to leverage holograms to bolster sales of their products.