Adobe Systems is working with several digital ad companies to create a new format for mobile ads that can tap into Flash or HTML5. EyeWonder ad Adobe Announced today at the Adobe Max developers conference, the collaboration will define two full-screen ad formats in a bid to create a new industry standard for mobile device …

Nokia’s earnings returned to the black in the third quarter thanks to smartphone sales, but it also announced 1,800 layoffs. The Finnish mobile phone maker said today that it took home a profit of 529 million euros ($741 million) in the third quarter compared with a loss of 559 million euros in the year-ago quarter. Revenue rose almost 5 percent …

Nokia is making Qt its sole application development framework and is supporting HTML5–both of which the company says are designed to benefit mobile app developers and customers. Nokia The mobile phone maker said today its Qt decision means that mobile apps will be compatible with future versions of Symbian and MeeGo. Previously, developers could write directly for Symbian or MeeGo, …

TomTom and HTC are teaming up in a bid to offer quicker and more accurate maps and directions for HTC mobile phone customers. HTC Locations HTC The two companies announced today that HTC Locations, the smartphone maker’s new mapping and navigation service, will come preloaded with TomTom’s “location-rich” maps. The service will initially appear on the Android-based HTC Desire and …

“Honey, I’m going to the office,” is a remark we may not hear as much if more people have their way. Three out of five workers around the world said they don’t need to be in the office to be productive, according to a study out yesterday from Cisco. The “Cisco Connected World Report” collected the results of two surveys …

Revenue from mobile ads for Android outstripped that for the iPhone for the first time on Millennial Mobile’s ad network in September. For its September Mobile Mix report, the mobile ad network, which hosts ads on the popular smartphone platforms, found that ad requests (the number of times a mobile ad is clicked on) on Android phones rose 26 percent …

Apple’s iPad will help sales of media tablets around the world hit 19.5 million units this year, according to a Gartner forecast out this week. Hot consumer demand will also prompt tablet sales to jump 181 percent to 54.8 million units next year, followed by 208 million units by 2014, projects Gartner. Gartner North American consumers will account for 61 …

Nokia’s C7 smartphone Nokia Nokia today began shipping its new C7 smartphone around the world. The follow-up to the recently launched N8 smartphone, the C7 is Nokia’s second phone powered by its new Symbian 3 mobile operating system. The 3.5-inch glass touch-screen is an active-matrix OLED that offers 640×360 pixel resolution. The C7 offers an 8-megapixel camera that can shoot …

Android continues to gobble up more smartphone customers, according to the new stats from market researcher ComScore. Looking at the three months ending August, Android’s market share rose to 19.6 percent in the U.S.–a gain of 6.6 points from the prior three months. Though Google’s smartphone platform is still third among the top five, it was the only one to …

Nokia’s Ovi Store hits 2.3 million daily downloads. Nokia After almost a year and a half, Nokia’s Ovi Store has built up enough momentum to hit 2.3 million daily downloads, the company announced today. With the number of active Nokia phone customers at 140 million around the world, 200,000 users are now signing up at the Ovi Store on a …