It was five years ago that Nokia (NYSE: NOK) executives brushed off the idea of Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) as “not a threat” to Nokia’s top position in mobile sales. After all, Apple was only making smartphones and Nokia was still leading in that still-niche category, as well as mobiles overall… Tweet This Post

A Parisian commercial court has upheld a lower court’s ruling against Google France, ordering the company to pay a fine of €500,000 for giving away its maps services. The plaintiff, Bottin Cartographes, claims that Google leveraged the market share of its Maps platform — and the fact that it’s free — to undercut and stifle [...]

Google doesn’t want you to believe everything Microsoft is writing about its privacy policies — especially not in the ads for alternative Microsoft products set to appear in major newspapers… Tweet This Post

Need to sign a contract, like, now? There’s an app for that. Several actually, but the folks who create EasySignMobile have gone and made their service a bit more accessible to the unwashed masses with an updated version that supports Facebook authentication… Tweet This Post

The rush of content announcements from video companies in recent days, from players like YouTube (NSDQ: GOOG) and Hulu, has caused a number of people to suggest that internet video has reached a new tipping point with consumer and advertiser adoption… Tweet This Post

Popular social networking management service HootSuite announced Wednesday it has added support for more social apps and opened its Engagement API. Digg, Trendspottr, and InboxQ have joined the HootSuite App Directory; a collection of apps and social media sites that you can manage with HootSuite… Tweet This Post

Each day, Mashable highlights one noteworthy YouTube video. Check out all our viral video picks. Cute alert: U.S. President Barack Obama has met Internet celebrity Keyboard Cat in a Google+ Hangout. We wish this adorable encounter were true, but it’s only a segment from Conan… Tweet This Post

Facebook who? On the same day the tech world awaits the social network’s IPO filing, fledgling rival Google+ is set to break 100 million users, according to one analyst. Paul Allen, a Google+ watcher, says the network will hit 100… Tweet This Post

Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) has accused Samsung of “slavishly copying” its hardware designs; but whether or not that is true, one area where Samsung is taking a note from Apple is in how it debuts its big products… Tweet This Post

Some phones are just too big for Mobile World Congress. That’s Samsung’s thinking, given the triumphant launch of its Galaxy S II — in all its guises. While specifications for Sammy’s next flagship are spinning rumor windmills across the web, there’s nothing particularly concrete on what we’ll be seeing just yet… Tweet This Post

Disney (NYSE: DIS) Mobile, the short-lived U.S. MVNO that found a new lease of life in Japan through a Softbank JV in 2008, has now launched two new Android handsets in partnership with NTT Docomo, the country’s biggest carrier… Tweet This Post

Many Japanese thumbs still love that classic ten-button keypad, so they should feel right at home on the newest model in KDDI’s designer INFOBAR range. The 3.2-inch, 854 x 480 touchscreen shows off the same tile-based custom UI as last year’s A01, once again running on top of Gingerbread and a single-core 1… Tweet This [...]