(Computerworld) – Smartphone shipments were up 4.2% globally in the third quarter and reached a record total for a quarter despite the poor economy, market research firm IDC said today.
Smartphone vendors shipped 43.3 million smartphones, such as the iPhone, in the third quarter, up 4.2% over the 41.5 million shipped in third quarter of [...]

A LITTLE BACKGROUND
Think of the about-to-be-released N900 as atonement for past sins committed by Nokia. The disaster that is Symbian, the anemic-ness of the Ovi store, the conspicuous lack of CDMA devices all seem, well, not so horrible after playing with this Linux based, open source, unlocked internet tablet. Nokia recently gave us a not-so-finished [...]

Top cellphone maker Nokia said on Friday its flagship N900 Linux phone will start selling in November, a month later than originally scheduled, as the company awaits feedback from developers….