Tuesday, May 31, 2011

Apple leads tech gains; Nokia slides on warning

By Rex Crum, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Apple Inc. led strong gains across tech stocks Tuesday while rival wireless device maker Nokia slumped after warning of lower-than-expected sales for the second quarter. Also, video game publisher ...

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Nokia, Ashland, DreamWorks are big movers

NEW YORK (AP) — Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday on the New York Stock Exchange and Nasdaq Stock Market: NYSE Nokia Corp., down $1.18 at $7.02 The mobile phone maker said its second-quarter earnings will be worse than expected ...

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Nokia warning compounds Bank of Ireland bond move

By Neil Dennis A profit warning from Nokia, the Finnish mobile phone maker, and news that Bank of Ireland would ask junior bondholders to take large losses, took the shine off gains on European equity markets. Nokia warned that sales and earnings ...

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RIM: RBC Sees Risk, Opportunity In Nokia Fall

By Tiernan Ray RBC Capital's Mike Abramsky, who has a Sector Perform rating on shares of Research in Motion (RIMM), and a $53.45 price target, writes that the deterioration of Nokia's (NOK) business, expressed in Nokia's financial update this morning, ...

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Nokia lowers outlook, share price plummets

The world's top mobile phone maker Nokia downgraded its second quarter outlook, saying sales would be far lower than expected and it could no longer give a full-year forecast. "Nokia now expects Devices and Services net sales to be substantially below ...

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Monday, May 30, 2011

Nokia wins partial review of patent case it lost to Apple - AfterDawn

Nokia has won a partial review of the patent case it lost to Apple in March, with the six-member ITC reviewing 2 of the 6 patent claims that were thrown out by an ITC judge ...

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Nokia to Launch Many Windows Phones This Year

By Michael Nokia is planning to unveil several Nokia smartphones that run on Windows Phone software this year, and will be releasing more of them at a frequent pace after that. Nokia's newly appointed head of Nokia Smart Devices, Jo Harlow told Forbes ...

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Nokia troubles cause financial problems for several Finnish municipalities

The reason is Nokia, whose success had brought millions of euros of tax revenue each year to the city. Now things are different. In the past two years, Nokia has been cutting jobs, depriving Oulu of municipal income tax revenue of hundreds of Nokia ...

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12MP Windows Phone Mango handset from HTC shows up

By Florin on 30 May 11 The first Windows Phone handset to feature a 12MP camera may not come from Nokia, but from HTC. Mobile-review's Eldar Murtazin has showed off an unannounced HTC device that runs the brand new Windows Phone Mango, and has a camera ...

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Nokia Boss Pledges Symbian Support Until 2016

Nokia has given its clearest indication yet over the future of Symbian, after CEO Stephen Elop used an interview to confirm that Symbian support will continue to until at least 2016. Elop made the commitment during a video interview (in English) on ...

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Sunday, May 29, 2011

Nokia innovation for Zimbabwe NGOs

BY JENNIFER DUBE A non-governmental organisation working with the media and humanitarian organisations last week launched the Nokia Data Gathering (NDG) tool with the aim of encouraging fast dissemination of humanitarian information. ...

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Nokia's CEO: We'll Stick To Symbian Through 2016

It seems to be the case these days, as Nokia's long-lived operating system may not be completely paralyzed just yet. In a very interesting twist and turn of events, newly instated CEO Stephen Elop has come out and proclaimed that Nokia will continue to ...

Hot Hardware

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Valid - and invalid - criticisms of the Nokia E7

Tomi Ahonen, like me, has been a heavy Nokia Communicator user over the years. And so our opinions on the Nokia E7 should be pretty similar. He has just published his long term critique of the device and, in typical Tomi style, there's no holding back ...

All About Symbian

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Smartphones Rule in Mobile Market

Nokia remains a market leader with sales of 107.6 million mobile devices. However, its market share declined by 5.5 percentage points YOY. Samsung was one of the top winners in the first quarter with Gartner noting its "strongest best quarter ever. ...

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The Script At Club Nokia

Opening for The Script on Friday, May 27th at Club Nokia was Andrew Allen, who came to Los Angeles to perform from Vernon, British Columbia, Canada. The popular question of the night as we were making our way into the venue was "who is he" and "do you ...

Neon Tommy

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Saturday, May 28, 2011

Nokia E6 now available on pre-order

... a number of tweaks including a faster browser and a split-screen view (be interesting to see how that performs on a small display such as the E6′s). While pre-ordering is live now, the release of the Nokia E6 isn't expected until the end of next ...

Techwatch

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CNN and Nokia team up for news and maps on the move

CNN's collaboration with Nokia's 3D maps for the recent royal wedding kept users glued to their handsets. Along the same lines, Nokia and CNN have now announced plans for rich mapping services to the network. Lately mobile handsets have become a ...

Mobiletor.com

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Updated Nokia Ovi Store on its way for Symbian^3 Nokia users

The Ovi Store is used daily by millions of satisfied Nokia users around the globe, and Nokia has just made the experience even better by rolling out an update to the online store for Symbian^3 users, such as the Nokia N8, Nokia E7, Nokia C7 and Nokia ...

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YouTube - Stephen Elop interviewed by Nokia Conversations - China

During Stephen Elop's recent visit to Nokia's facilities in China, he took time out to answer some questions from Nokia Conversations.

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Nokia plunges into emerging markets with Series 40 platform

Cue Nokia's Series 40 Web App platform, the company's bid to nail down emerging markets early in the game, while extending news, entertainment and information services to millions of new mobile users. Series 40 phones may look outmoded in Silicon ...

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Friday, May 27, 2011

ITC Grants Nokia Partial Review Of Patents In Apple Case

By Shara Tibken, Of DOW JONES NEWSWIRES NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- The US International Trade Commission has granted Nokia Corp. (NOK) a partial review of its patent claims against Apple Inc. ( APPL), extending the litigation between the two technology ...

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Nokia plans to pick up the pace with WP7 devices

By MARK JONES It has been a slow year for Nokia as it makes the transition to its Windows Phone 7 handsets but in an interview with PCMag Nokia's executive vice president Jo Harlow has revealed that when it does release the devices it will be doing so ...

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Carrie Underwood: American Idol 2011 Finale Dress

Hot and sexy Carrie Underwood stepped out for attending Fox's "American Idol" season 10 finale results show held at Nokia Theatre LA Live on May 25, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. 28-year-old Hollywood star donned an eye-catching short and sexy ...

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Nokia Windows Phone 7 Mango release date this year?

Nokia is scheduled to release "tons" of Windows Phone devices, based on the statement made by the company's SVP for Smartphones, Jo Harlow. According to Harlow, Nokia will use Windows Phone more often, and the platform's fans can expect a new Nokia ...

PopHerald.com

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Nokia – AllThingsD

Looks like Nokia is on track to meet the unofficial mandate give by its new Chief Executive, Stephen Elop, earlier this year: Deliver a Nokia Windows Phone ...

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Thursday, May 26, 2011

Hot Spot of the Day: Nokia Theater, Los Angeles

Singer/actress Jennifer Lopez arrives at Fox's "American Idol" season 10 finale results show held at Nokia Theatre LA Live on May 25, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (May 24, 2011 - Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images North America) From Lil Jon to ...

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YouTube - A Closer Look at Nokia Oro

In this video, Alessandro Lamanna, Vice President, Marketing at Nokia talks about Nokia Oro http://nokia.ly/jicrTq a stunning new smartphone that ...

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Nokia Announces Gold-Plated Phone

By Kat Asharya | Thu May 26, 2011 3:02 pm Nokia has created an 18-carat gold-plated phone, one of its rare diversions in the luxury handset niche as it begins to claw its way back into the larger smartphone market. The Finnish phone maker's new handset ...

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Nokia's Elop to speak at Qualcomm conference

Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop leads a list that includes HTC head Peter Chou and Jon Rubinstein, former Palm chief executive who now runs the mobile business for Hewlett-Packard. HP acquired Palm last year. Qualcomm Chief Executive Paul Jacobs ...

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LA'S HIT BOXING SERIES RETURNS TO CLUB NOKIA AT LA LIVE

LOS ANGELES, May 26 - On Thursday, June 23, Los Angeles' hit boxing series "Fight Night Club," returns with another night of exciting boxing action at LA LIVE's Club Nokia as local favorites Ramon Valadez and Jamie Kavanagh compete in separate featured ...

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Nokia VP reveals more details on Windows Phone handsets

Since February's announcement that Nokia would partner with Microsoft on Windows Phone 7 smartphones, the mobile community has been eager for more details. Jo Harlow, Nokia's Executive Vice President of Smart Devices, dished a few more tidbits to ...

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Mobile Lowdown 5-25-11: 4G; Cox; Nokia / ZTE; Sony; Instagram; AdSense

A look at some of the big stories in mobile today: Cox drops 3G; UK gears up for first LTE trial; Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and ZTE scramble to put out the first Mango handsets; more security breach woes for Sony (NYSE: SNE)—this time around Sony Ericsson; ...

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Nokia Oro - a premium smartphone

Nokia today announced the Nokia Oro, a premium Symbian^3 smartphone. Material used in Oro, which is based on the Nokia C7, include 18 carat gold plating around the edges, high quality Scottish leather on the back and a single sapphire for the home key. ...

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Windows Phone 7.1: 500 Upgrades, but Only Nokia and Skype Matter

That makes Nokia, and to a lesser extent Skype, Microsoft's WMDs in the coming fight. Apple is going to be very tough to beat, but Google appears to be a relatively easy target. This is because Google's model does not return much revenue to the ...

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PHOTOS: Idol Contestants at the Finale

Season 10 contestant Paul McDonald outside the Nokia Theatre in LA after the first night of the American Idol finale on Tuesday, May 24, 2011 (photo by Emily Stone/myfoxatlanta). Season 10 contestant Paul McDonald outside the Nokia Theatre in LA after ...

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Tuesday, May 24, 2011

Nokia To Install Qualcom Chipset

The leading mobile phone maker in the world, Nokia Corp. (NOK - Analyst Report) is all set to build their first Windows Phone 7-based smartphones using Qualcomm Inc's (QCOM - Analyst Report) chipset. Nokia, in order to increase their chipset supplier ...

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Yahoo Mail Revamp Rolling Out for Nokia, Verizon

While Yahoo Mail is targeted for consumers, the company said the service will also be available to its global business partners, including Nokia, Verizon, Rogers Telecommunications, and other device manufacturers and broadband service providers. ...

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Microsoft's phone update leaves critics bemuse

The new software is the first glimpse of what Nokia/Microsoft smartphones might look like when they are launched at the end of this year. It is the first chance to judge whether Microsoft – which has just 3.6 per cent of the market for smartphone ...

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Nokia's Smartphone Chief On Microsoft Alliance, Future Windows Devices

As Nokia's recently-appointed head of Smart Devices, Harlow is tasked with overseeing the Finnish giant's transition from its homegrown Symbian platform to Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system. Since its February announcement, the Nokia-Microsoft ...

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Moto Droid 3 reportedly sporting dual-core processor; Sony Ericsson nabs Nokia ...

Article > Nokia continues to push for dual-SIM phones. Post > Siano Mobile Silicon said it raised $20 million in venture funding. Release > SkyCross said it raised $11 million in venture funding. Release > Apple said its iOS app developers are ...

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Monday, May 23, 2011

Nokia to use Qualcomm chips in first Windows Phone 7 devices ...

A couple of days ago, we reported that Nokia's upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices would be making use of ST-Ericsson chips. It seems that they were.

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Microsoft Plans Major Windows Phone 7 Upgrade

Microsoft's new BFF, Nokia, will likely take center stage through the presence of its CEO, Stephan Elop. Nokia announced in February its plans to drop its home-brewed Symbian smartphone platform and instead adopt Microsoft's WP7 platform. ...

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Impact of Apple's Platform Licensing on the future of Electronic Products

Recently, big in the news, Apple's iPhone sales blew past the undisputed leader Nokia with $11.9 billion (with a "B") in iPhone sales as compared to $9.4 billion in Nokia sales. As of 4/26/2011, the average sale per device works out to about $660 for ...

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Gartner: Android Soars Past Symbian in Q1 2011

Looking at the device manufacturers, Nokia was still on top in Q1, with 108 million units sold for 25 percent of the market, down from last year's 31 percent mark and its lowest share since 1997. Rounding out the top five were Samsung (16 percent), ...

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Here's Everything You Need To Know About Microsoft's Big Windows Phone 7 Event ...

We're also likely to hear more about Microsoft and Nokia's new business together, which might actually go a long way towards boosting Windows Phone 7 sales. Buying Nokia could give Microsoft a second chance at getting back in the phone hardware ...

The Business Insider

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Sunday, May 22, 2011

Nokia Siemens Networks to establish a joint-venture in KSA

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; 22 May, 2011: Nokia Siemens NetworksNokia Siemens Networks, a leading global enabler of telecommunications services, announced today that it has signed a strategic partnership agreement with Al Sarya Telecommunications Company and ...

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CNN launches international news app for Nokia smartphones on Ovi Store

CNN and Nokia have launched an international news app for Nokia E7 smarpthones, available on the Ovi Store at http://store.ovi.com/content/121610. Free of charge to users globally at launch, the CNN App for Nokia is purpose-built and designed to ...

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Vodafone launches the Nokia E7 onto the local market

Vodafone Malta has announced that it has launched the Nokia E7 onto the local market. Available from all Vodafone concept stores the Nokia E7 comes at the price of €659 when purchased alone and for the minimal price of €229 on the Vodafone plan ...

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Nokia's best-ever business device

WHAT if the Nokia E7 phone had been launched two years earlier and not two months ago? I guess today's smartphone market would've been different. People would probably still be hooked to Symbian-powered Nokia devices instead of Apple's iPhone and the ...

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Nokia to use Qualcomm chips in first Windows Phone 7 devices

By George Wong - 05/22/2011 12:24 PDT A couple of days ago, we reported that Nokia's upcoming Windows Phone 7 devices would be making use of ST-Ericsson chips. It seems that they were referring to their second (or later) generation of WP7 phones – on ...

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Saturday, May 21, 2011

Does Microsoft Want to Take Over Nokia's Smartphone Division ...

Last December when nobody believed that Nokia could give up using the Symbian OS , Eldar made an incredible statement saying that Microsoft and Nokia were discussing about using Windows Phone as OS in Nokia smartphones. ...

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Nokia WP To Feature A Dual Core 1.2Ghz Processor

Speaking to Forbes, Chief Executive of European semiconductor maker STMicroelectronics, Carlo Bozotti revealed that at least some of Nokia's upcoming Microsoft Windows Phone (WP) based smartphones will be powered by silicon sourced from ST-Ericsson - a ...

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Young Hollywood Awards: Grey's Anatomy, Pretty Little Liars, Friday Night ...

by Louis Virtel Last night's Young Hollywood Awards ceremony at LA's Club Nokia — airing May 26 on ION Television (9/8c) — featured not only youthful stars (including Oscar nominee Hailee Steinfeld and august Super 8 star Elle Fanning), but also ...

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Nokia N8 Smartphone Price Drops To £240

The Nokia N8 has been discounted to a mere £240 by Orange, nearly half the £400 it originally cost when it was launched nearly one year ago. As for the other deal highlighted earlier today, this one is served by Dialaphone and is on the barebone ...

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Eva Mendes is Beautiful in Brown at Young Hollywood Awards (Pictures)

Actress Eva Mendes arrives at the 13th Annual Young Hollywood Awards at Club Nokia on May 20, 2011 in Los Angeles, California. (Getty Images)more pics » Eva Mendes (Getty Images) Eva Mendes represented the over 30 set at the Young Hollywood Awards last ...

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Friday, May 20, 2011

Nokia Conversations

GLOBAL - As the possessor of massive hands with fingers like bananas, SMS messaging has never had quite the appeal for me that it does for most people. I can.

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Nokia chooses Qualcom to power its first Windows Phone devices

By Lawrence Latif JUST HOURS after chip designer ST-Ericsson said it would supply chips to 12 of Nokia's upcoming Windows Phone devices, the Finnish phone maker declared that it had picked Qualcomm. Qualcomm is a natural choice as all current Windows ...

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Can Apple stop the Android Army's advances?

Microsoft's Windows Phone distribution deal with Nokia is another up-and-coming competitive concern. There may be another reason. The iPhone 3GS could be selling so well that it's impacting iPhone's ASP. During fiscal 2011 first quarter, iPhone average ...

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Nokia: Troubles Deepen; N8 Phone Losing European Carrier Support

By ERIC SAVITZ MKM Partners analyst Tero Kuittinen asserts in a research note Friday that sales of Nokia's N8 smart phone are "eroding rapidly." He note that leading carriers are offering "steeply discounted deals" on the phone, which was launched in ...

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Gartner: Android is Bulldozing Competition, Picks up Third of Market in Q1

Nokia Symbian OS (and by proxy, Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, which will replace it) appear the only major competitors to Android's dominance. However, Nokia has bled over half its smart phone market share away in the last year. ...

DailyTech

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Thursday, May 19, 2011

'Invent With Nokia' Initiative Invites Creative Folks to Submit Ideas

Nokia knows that good ideas are slipping through the cracks the world over, and so it offers "Invent With Nokia" — a secure way for people to submit ideas Nokia will consider. An evolving Nokia knows that the world is full of creative people with ...

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Gartner: Nokia, RIM Sink, Android Soars, Windows Phone Has Weak Debut

By Gabriel Perna | May 19, 2011 12:49 PM EDT Nokia is down. RIM is down. Android is up. Apple is up. Windows Phone 7 did not have an impressive debut. And of course, everyone in the world is starting to own a smartphone. "Smartphones accounted for 23.6 ...

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Bill Gates Insists Microsoft Is Still in the Mobile Race

By Kendra Srivastava | Thu May 19, 2011 1:25 pm Bill Gates says Microsoft has not been left behind in the mobile revolution, a stance that seems at odds with the current market, but could be validated once its partnership with Nokia bears fruit later ...

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Ex-Nokia CFO joins Rearden Commerce

Rick Simonson, who was Nokia Corp.'s chief financial officer, has joined Foster City-based Rearden Commerce as CFO and president of business operations. Started in 2000 by Chairman and CEO Patrick Grady, Rearden Commerce is a 370-person company that ...

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Smartphone Sales Grow Faster Than Handsets Overall

While Nokia took second place, Gartner called the gain for Apple's higher-priced iPhone "remarkable." Android-powered smartphones remained the top choice worldwide as the smartphone portion of global handset sales jumped in the first quarter. ...

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Wednesday, May 18, 2011

Former Nokia CFO Rick Simonson lands at Rearden Commerce

E-commerce platform company Rearden Commerce has appointed former Nokia CFO Rick Simonson as its new chief financial officer and president of business operations . ...

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Nokia Doing Away With Ovi Branding As WP7 Transition Continues ...

The times are a-changing, and so is Nokia. Nokia isn't and never will be the company we've grown to know and love. With the Windows Phone 7 link, the company is remarking itself day by day, and one of the ways it's doing just that is by ...

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Reuters Summit - Telmap says weathered Google-Nokia storm

O) and then Nokia(NOK1V.HE) launched free services. Telmap, which offers location-based services to provide details on traffic data, speed cameras and local offerings, said the industry had been rocked when the two technology giants launched free ...

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Mobile hacking sets off security gold rush

That's creating a big business opportunity for everyone from traditional antivirus players like Intel's McAfee to mobile operators like France Telecom and handset makers like Nokia. Market research firm Infonetics forecasts sales of mobile security ...

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Why a Microsoft Takeover of Nokia Could Pay Off

18, 2011, 12:00pm PT No Comments Microsoft has been on quite a spending spree of late, acquiring Skype and agreeing to spend about a billion dollars to place its Windows Phone platform on most new Nokia handsets. And recent reports have Microsoft ...

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Tuesday, May 17, 2011

Nokia N9 gets teaser video, Rick Springfield soundtrack (video ...

Sure, we've known of the Nokia N9's existence for some time now, a fact made all the more real by the handset's recent FCC appearance,

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Rumor: Microsoft to buy Nokia – Cell Phones & Mobile Device ...

May. 17, 2011 - Microsoft has been busy buying companies lately, but this purchase would blow all of their previous ones out of the water. According to a post on Twitter by.

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Nokia Squashes Murtazin Rumor, No Handset Takeover For Microsoft

Eldar Murtazin isn't often wrong, but his latest rumor concerning negotiations between Nokia and Microsoft on the acquisition of the former's handset business ...

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Nokia N9 Teaser Ad & Screenshots

Nokia hasn't officially announced the Nokia N9 yet, but PocketNow scooped up the teaser video already. At quick glance, it looks a lot like Symbian. The video.

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Nokia N9 MeeGo teaser video released | Ubergizmo

Nokia may be onboard the Windows Phone 7 train, but they've still got one non- WP7 device that everybody has been [...]

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Monday, May 16, 2011

Rumour mill: Microsoft buying Nokia?

Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop greets Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer when the deal to use Windows Phone was announced. Are they going to do it again? Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty Images A notable rumour going around: Microsoft is going to bid for ...

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Nokia X7 and E6 hop an early flight to Germany for pre-order ...

If Nokia's X7 entertainment handset overwhelms you with a fluttery sensation, then you may consider grabbing one on pre-order, where it retails in.

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Microsoft and Nokia to discuss sale of Nokia's mobile unit next ...

Do you know what could easily overshadow the $8.5 billion acquisition of Skype by Microsoft? A multi-billion acquisition of none other than the biggest ...

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Here's Why Microsoft Buying Nokia Might Actually Make Sense (MSFT, NOK, RIMM)

The deal would be huge -- Nokia's market cap is $32 billion -- and it would be a big shift in Microsoft's focus. So it's easy to laugh this off as a big, silly rumor. But there's one reason why Microsoft potentially buying Nokia actually makes sense. ...

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After Skype, Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) To Acquire Nokia (NYSE:NOK)?

When Stephen Elop was handed over the reins of Nokia (NOK) in September 2010, it was discussed in hush-hush tones that Elop is a Trojan horse left by Microsoft (MSFT) in the perimeter of Nokia. The ultimate goal was of course to acquire the Finnish ...

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Sunday, May 15, 2011

Nokia N8 goes pretty in pink

Nokia has unveiled the limited edition N8 in pink which features a sleek, aluminum casing and an elegant design, coupled with high-power multi-media capabilities. MANILA, Philippines - Nokia Philippines marries fashion and function in one amazing ...

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Bing Maps To Be Powered (Replaced) By Nokia?

I had a chance lunch with a person with close connections to Nokia about a week ago. Naturally we began talking about the outlook for the Microsoft-Nokia Windows Phone deal. He was hopeful but mindful of the risks for both companies. ...

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Everybody Wants A Bite Of Apple

But according to Amazon, Microsoft, HTC, Nokia, and Sony-Ericson, the term is too generic to be trademarked and credited to just Apple. In terms of Microsoft, they should not fret too much, they have brought us a variety of terms that symbolizes and ...

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Leaked Symbian^3 Belle Update on Nokia E7 Abandons Soft Keys for Navigation Bar

Leaked screenshots of the Symbian^3 Belle operating system firmware update, the one to follow Symbian Anna, reveals that soft keys are finally being abandoned on the Nokia E7 hardware that it was loaded on. In the picture above with the list icons, ...

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Still remember these guys?

Combined together, the two ladies have more than 56 years experience in Nokia's communications department. I took a peek into the archives with them and asked them to share their memories of Nokia's old devices throughout the years. ...

Nokia Conversations

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Saturday, May 14, 2011

Coheed and Cambria at Club Nokia

An interesting note about all of Coheed and Cambria's albums is they are all part of science fiction storyline called The Amory Wars, a story written by lead singer Claudio Sanchez. The Amory Wars has also been transcribed into a series of comic books ...

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Review: Favourite Apps

One of the most popular widgets for the homescreens of Nokia's Symbian phones is the shortcut widget. It provides quick access to up to four applications, games or web bookmarks. However, using multiple instances of this widget can fill up valuable ...

All About Symbian

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Microsoft, Skype Deal Could Exploit Synergies with Nokia, Enterprise

"Microsoft's plan to acquire Skype fits in perfectly with its recent partnership with Nokia because both offer incredible reach." In other words, Skype could allow Microsoft to boost its competitiveness in the mobile realm against both Apple's iPhone ...

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Screen Grabs: futuristic Nokia smartphone answers the product ...

Screen Grabs chronicles the uses (and misuses) of real-world gadgets in today's movies and TV. Send in your sightings (with screen grab!) to screeng.

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Nokia E6 and X7 go on pre-order in Germany, seem pricey

When announced a month ago, the Nokia duo E6 and X7 caused a good deal of excitement. Packing the latest Symbian update, called Anna, the two smartphones proved that the OS is not yet ready to head into oblivion. Now, the two headsets are available for ...

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Friday, May 13, 2011

Still remember these guys? | Nokia Conversations - The official ...

ESPOO, Finland – Annamari Qvist and Åsa Tötterman have black belts in launching mobile phones. Combined together, the two ladies have more than 56 years.

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Nokia Update On Qt 5 Provides Open Assurances

13, 2011Comments (0) From the time Nokia announced that it is tying its smartphone fortunes to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 platform, expressions of shock have abounded, and we have written about why there may be problems with this hookup, especially as ...

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Nokia Top Handset Maker For Q1 2011

Nokia is still at the top with 32.7% of the market. Even though Symbian is falling out of favor, Nokia still showed growth versus the same quarter last year, selling 108.5 million devices against 107.8 million in Q1 2010. It will be interesting to see ...

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Nokia Introduces Store-in-Store Concept, Announces Co-Branded App Store

Finnish mobile phone maker Nokia has introduced a Store-in-Store concept that will allow operators to offer their own branded mobile applications on the Ovi Store platform. The company said that operators will be able to leverage the wide user base of ...

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Sega presenting public demo of Sonic Generations at Club Nokia

Sega is planning a huge get-together at the Club Nokia theater in Los Angeles that gives the public a chance to try out a demo of Sonic Generations. The June 8 event is free to attend though you'll need to reserve a spot to get in. As of this posting, ...

Neoseeker

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Thursday, May 12, 2011

Nokia Astound Review

The Nokia Astound is the T-Mobile USA version of Nokia's C7 touchscreen-based smartphone. Antoine Wright brings us a review of this Symbian model, which is packing a good range of features for very low price.

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MeeGo-Powered Nokia N9 to Be Called Nokia N950

According to a film company, which tweeted that it is working on a film promo with Nokia on a MeeGo-powered N950, the oft-rumored Nokia N9 may be launched as the Nokia N950 smartphone this summer.

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Nokia MeeGo Developer Device to be Announced June 2011

We just got tipped by someone who has been right in the past that a Nokia MeeGo device for developers will be announced in June. Nokia will let the devs know.

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Coheed and Cambria end tour at Club Nokia with electric and acoustic magic

Club Nokia hosted the ten-year celebration for Coheed, allowing them the time and space to play a three-hour set consisting of a 45-minute acoustic opening, followed by the entirety of their debut album Second Stage Turbine Blade, and a six song encore ...

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Nokia X7 will be available from Three UK in June

By Vlad Bobleanta on 12 May 11 After having contributed one of the many leaks of the Nokia X7 that we saw before the handset was finally officially introduced by Nokia, Three UK is getting ready to stock the smartphone. ...

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Wednesday, May 11, 2011

Nokia details what location data its smartphones collect - finally

A London street map on the Nokia N97 smartphone: you know your location. And so does it, for a while. Photograph: Ray Tang / Rex Features Nokia has - at long last - revealed the location data that its Symbian smartphones collect while in use. ...

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Is Nokia Creating Windows 8 Tablet, Glasses Free 3D Gamer?

Those were the words Nokia used in a patent filing recently to describe a dual screen device that could render 3D images and video, and looked a lot like a the Nintendo 3DS portable game console in all other regards. It seems that Nokia is not just ...

Top Computer Tablets

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Windows Phone, Nokia Dominance Projections May Be Overblown

Microsoft and Nokia's recent Windows Phone deal will allow them to dominate the market within a few years, according to some analysts. But there are hurdles. A small but well-publicized set of research notes have predicted that Windows Phone will come ...

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iSuppli: Smartphone shipments declined during first quarter

Nokia declined by nearly the same amount with a 14.5 percent decrease and only 24.2 million units shipped in Q1. However, Nokia managed to retain the top spot, but it might not for the next few quarters as the deal with Microsoft could influence buyers ...

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Nokia N9 appears on the FCC, runs on meeGo

By Edwin Kee - 05/11/2011 10:48 PDT We do know that the Nokia N9 smartphone is already on its way to the masses for the longest time already – after all, spy shots of the meeGo-powered handset have been spotted online for over a year, but that doesn't ...

Ubergizmo

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Tuesday, May 10, 2011

New Symbian^3 homescreen leaked by Nokia Germany - Technology.am

Some images posted on the Nokia Germany website just lifted the curtain on one of the features to come in the next Symbian^3 update. What we are seeing is the free-form widgets that were initially...

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MSFT: Skype A Use For Int'l Cash; Nokia Rises

I would note that Nokia (NOK), Microsoft's partner in smartphones, is beating the market this morning on no particular news, perhaps a reaction to Nokia's now having another arrow in its quiver given its partnership with Microsoft for phone software. ...

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Nokia needs to 'cosy up' to carriers, says expert

Nokia must 'cosy up' to carriers in order for its tie-up with Microsoft to compete, it has been claimed. Michael Morgan, senior analyst of mobile devices at ABI Research, said superior distribution and production scale will have to be leveraged if the ...

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Windows Phone 7 will be No. 1 smartphone by 2015

1 status in just four years even with the Nokia bump WP7 is expected to enjoy beginning later this year. (Nokia's success with WP7 is hardly assured.) Pyramid's Smartphone Forecast report was written by senior analyst Stela Bokun, who is also the ...

Network World (blog)

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Nokia Finds A Comfy Spot On Steve Ballmer's Shoulder

Nokia recently announced its Q1 2011 earnings and provided some detail on its Microsoft partnership. The company believes this will bring about product differentiation and large cost savings. In the past, Nokia has struggled to compete with Apple, ...

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Monday, May 9, 2011

Quikr Raises $8M In Series D, Led By Nokia Growth Partners

Quikr, a horizontal classifieds player, has raised $8 million in fourth round of funding – led by new investor, Nokia Growth Partners (NGP), and returning investors, Norwest Venture Partners and eBay Inc. This takes the total monies raised by Quikr in ...

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BlackBerry Bold Touch 9900 vs Nokia E6

BlackBerry devices were widely regarded as the standard for those seeking fast, secure messengers; until Nokia came along with its successful E-class range to challenge for a slice of the portrait QWERTY pie. But the game has changed in recent years ...

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Nokia 3D Phone And Windows 8 Tablet Rumours

Nokia may be at work on a 3D smartphone for Microsoft, along with a Windows 8 tablet. While unconfirmed, the 3D-device rumour is being buoyed by the discovery of a patent application that Nokia filed in November 2009 for what it called an ...

eWEEK Europe UK

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Download: Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon on your Nokia E7

Find out more by downloading the trailer for Transformers 3: Dark of the Moon on your Nokia E7 for free. We liked Transformers but the second one sucked, that pretty much summed up the feelings of a generation brought up on Megatron and the other ...

NokNok.tv

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Will Nokia Announce a Windows Phone 7 Device in Greece Next Week?

As a press invitation was leaked online for a May 17th event hosted in Greece by Nokia, there isn't much more information that is known about how Nokia will leverage this event. The Finnish phone-maker has been quiet thus far about its Windows Phone 7 ...

Gotta Be Mobile

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Sunday, May 8, 2011

Zain Bahrain, Nokia joint offering enables ultimate experience on new Nokia E7

Zain Bahrain and Nokia have announced a joint offering to allow users to fully benefit from the business applications and services supported and offered by Nokia's latest smart phone, the Nokia E7. Zain customers in Bahrain, whether postpaid or prepaid ...

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Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 Likely Had Rocky Sales Start

Speaking longer-term, Microsoft's alliance with Nokia, which will see Windows Phone 7 ported onto the latter's hardware, has the potential to radically change the current smartphone game. In a March note, research firm IDC predicted that Windows Phone ...

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Nokia Ships 500 Millionth Phone in India

This week Nokia celebrated a milestone in terms of their handset production when they crossed over the 500 millionth mark. The handsets themselves are being produced out of their manufacturing plant in Chennai, India, but they are of-course being ...

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The Instore show sees GlaxoSmithKline, Nokia and Unilever take the stage

The second presentation that stands out is Jeremy Wright, head of business program, Nokia who will discuss: 'Driving your online traffic instore: how mobile coupons and bridging the digital divide.' (11-11.45, 29 th June) Two other presentations may ...

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