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Microsoft to update Phone software in autumnThe Hindu - 16 Feb, 2011Microsoft is set to release a new version, code-named Mungo, of its Windows Phone operating system this autumn, a senior executive told the German Press Agency dpa at the Mobile World Congress on Monday in Barcelona. The Barcelona expo, the world's ... |
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Microsoft Announces Future Windows Phone 7 EnhancementsInformationWeek (blog) - Ed Hansberry - 16 Feb, 2011Speaking of that first big update, Steve Ballmer confirmed today that it will be released in the first two weeks of March. Copy and Paste is the headliner of that update and CDMA support is close behind. We should see phones from CMDA carriers Sprint ... |
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Nokia to delay Microsoft Windows Phone beyond OctoberThe Guardian - 16 Feb, 2011Nokia is not adopting Microsoft's current Windows Phone 7 platform â€" which means that there is no chance of any handsets running Microsoft's software before the end of October. It is likely to be a lot later. Rather than using the current version of ... |
Plan B uprising against Nokia leadership dies an early deathInquirer - Asavin Wattanajantra - 16 Feb, 2011A BID by a group of young Nokia shareholders to steer the Finnish phone company away from the course it is heading on has died with a whimper, rather than a bang. The nine shareholders wanted to challenge the partnership with ... |
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Analyst: Nokia-MS alliance bodes ill for phone giantGMANews.TV - 16 Feb, 2011Nokia's agreement with Microsoft Corp. to make Windows Phone 7 its principal operating system is likely to have a negative near-term impact on the mobile handset leader's smart phone shipments, according to research firm IHS iSuppli. ... |
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The Technology Newsbucket: Nokia and Microsoft 'could make worst smartphone ...The Guardian (blog) - 16 Feb, 2011A quick burst of 12 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Microsoft's ecosystem is a tough sell to Verizon >> CNET Reviews "The bottom line, [Verizon CTO Tony] Melone said, is that Verizon has what it needs from its current ... |
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Nokia: Going (micro)softMail & Guardian Online - 16 Feb, 2011Ten years ago it might have seemed like a match made in heaven: the world's greatest software company teaming up with the world's leading cellphone manufacturer. But when Nokia and Microsoft announced their partnership on February 11, it seemed more ... |
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Nokia's Elop confident Microsoft deal will succeedSeattle Times - Sharon Pian Chan - 16 Feb, 2011Mobile World Congress: Q&A | Since the announcement Friday that Nokia would partner with Microsoft, the mobile industry has been in an uproar over the decision of the world's largest phone maker to go with Windows Phone software on its smartphones. ... |
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Windows Phone Reloaded: Can We Trust Ballmer's Promises?PCWorld - Galen Gruman - 16 Feb, 2011For a couple years now, Microsoft's CEO has been making bold promises about the company making a serious effort to be a player in mobile. He criticized the failed Windows Mobile 6.5 effort and promoted Windows Phone 7 as a ... |
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Windows Phone 7 Upgrade, Online Video Viewing and Jeopardy ChallengeABC News - Brett Levy, Tina Trinh - 16 Feb, 2011Microsoft is looking to turn smartphones into video game remotes. Microsoft says it hopes to connect phones running on its Windows Phone 7 software to the Xbox. The company showed a video of one player using the Xbox Kinect ... |
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Microsoft and Nokia Need Lady GagaPC Magazine - John C. Dvorak - 16 Feb, 2011Instead of giving Nokia billions of dollars, Microsoft should hire Lady Gaga. Both Nokia and Microsoft could use her marketing skills. By John C. Dvorak I'll explain the Lady Gaga angle in a minute, but first I'll why she is needed. ... |
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Nokia Rebel Shareholders: Fire Elop, Bring Back MeeGo (NOK, MSFT)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 16 Feb, 2011A group of nine Nokia shareholders will try to oust the current board of directors at Nokia's shareholders' meeting on May 3, oust CEO Stephen Elop and other executives, and refocus Nokia's smartphone strategy on the MeeGo platform. ... |
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Nokia Shareholders Slam Windows Phone 7 PlanInformationWeek - Paul McDougall - 16 Feb, 2011Dissident group wants the company to reject Microsoft alliance and instead focus on in-house research and innovation. By Paul McDougall , InformationWeek A group of Nokia shareholders have established a Web site to rail against the company's decision ... |
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Nokia-Microsoft deal seen as little threat to Apple, GoogleCTV.ca - Michael Babad - 16 Feb, 2011These are stories Report on Business is following today. Get the top business stories through the day on BlackBerry or iPhone by bookmarking our mobile-friendly webpage. UBS AG believes a new strategy launched last week by Nokia Corp. won't be any ... |
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RIM refused Nokia software partnership: reportNational Post (registration) - 16 Feb, 2011Prior to throwing itself into Microsoft's arms, Finnish phone maker Nokia saw its attempted courtship of Canada's own smartphone maker rebuffed. According to a report published Tuesday by TechCrunch Europe, Nokia Corp. recently held discussions with ... |
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Verizon CTO: We Don't Need Nokia-Microsoft (VZ, NOK, MSFT)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 16 Feb, 2011Verizon chief technical officer Tony Melone had harsh words for the recent deal between Microsoft and Nokia. That's bad news for Nokia and Microsoft, who desperately need carrier support to compete in the US market. In an interview with News.com, ... |
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Samsung Reiterates Support For Windows Phone 7 But Is Waiting On New HandsetsForbes (blog) - Elizabeth Woyke - 16 Feb, 2011It was probably inevitable that Nokia's decision to partner with Microsoft on smartphones and other mobile devices would cast Microsoft's other mobile partnerships into doubt. After all, Nokia, which is still the world's largest ... |
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Nokia Shareholders Divided On Strategy ViewWall Street Journal - Arild Moen, Christopher Lawton - 16 Feb, 2011HELSINKI (Dow Jones)--Dissenting views among Nokia Corp. (NOK) investors emerged Tuesday after a group claiming to represent small shareholders in the cellphone giant called for the resignation of chief executive ... |
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10 Tech Partnerships That Crushed Competitors And Sparked Turnarounds (MSFT ...San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 16 Feb, 2011When Nokia CEO Stephen Elop announced the company's partnership with Microsoft last week, he said that it would transform the smartphone market into a "three horse race," with the alliance taking its place alongside Apple's iOS and Google's Android. ... |
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How LG lost the smartphone raceCNNMoney - Shin Kiju - 16 Feb, 2011FORTUNE -- It was a fateful day back on Feb. 16, 2009. That's when LG Electronics' then-vice chairman and CEO Nam Yong met with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer in Barcelona, Spain. ... |
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Nokia's Elop Only Put Microsoft Plan for Board VoteBloomberg - Diana ben-Aaron - 16 Feb, 2011Feb. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Bob Rice, managing partner at Tangent Capital Partners LLC, talks about the outlook for Facebook Inc. Rice, speaking with Deirdre Bolton on Bloomberg Television's "InsideTrack," ... |
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Nokia-Microsoft pact seen creating Google rivalReuters - Luke MacGregor - 16 Feb, 2011Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop (L) speaks, watched by Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer at a Nokia event in London February 11, 2011. By Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent BARCELONA (Reuters) - Wireless industry executives mostly ... |
Nokia Under Fire From Disgruntled Shareholders, UnionWall Street Journal - Arild Moen, Christopher Lawton - 16 Feb, 2011HELSINKI (Dow Jones)--Mobile phone giant Nokia was Tuesday assailed on two sides after a group claiming to be small shareholders in the firm called for the resignation of chief executive Stephen Elop and a reversal ... |
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Microsoft upgrade: Phones connect to XboxNewsday (subscription) - 16 Feb, 2011By AP Quick ReadNow that it has hooked up with Nokia Corp. phones, Microsoft Corp. hopes to connect its phone software to the Xbox this year, too. Photo credit: AP | Microsoft CEO, Steve Ballmer, speaks during a conference at the Mobile World congress ... |
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Microsoft's ecosystem is a tough sell to VerizonCNET (blog) - Marguerite Reardon - 16 Feb, 2011BARCELONA, Spain--Verizon Communications Chief Technology Officer Tony Melone would love to see a third player in the mobile OS market, but Microsoft's Windows Phone platform may not be it. Melone said during an interview ... |
"Nokia's Microsoft linkup is a brilliant move"Globes - Gad Perez - 16 Feb, 2011"Nokia is far from saying the last word on smartphones," Eurocom Group CEO Ilan Greenbaum said at the 2011 World Mobile Conference in Barcelona, in response to Nokia's abandoning its own operating system in favor of Windows Phone 7. ... |
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Group of shareholders calls for Plan BMarketWatch - Aude Lagorce - 16 Feb, 2011BARCELONA (MarketWatch) â€" Not everyone is on board with mobile-phone maker Nokia Corp.'s new strategy, it emerged Tuesday. A small, unnamed group of Nokia shareholders has called for a Plan B, demonstrating the ... |
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Nokia reveals pictures of its Windows Phone handset conceptsInquirer - Rob Coppinger - 16 Feb, 2011FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia has revealed its artist concepts for its Windows Phone handsets that it hopes will replace the 200 million Symbian^3 phones that currently populate the world. Showing different screens that are known to come ... |
Nokia's "Plan B" proposal is a recipe for disasterComputerworld (blog) - 16 Feb, 2011A group of Nokia stockholders have posted a public letter with a suggested "Plan B" for the company that would do away with the Microsoft deal, fire CEO Stephen Elop, and essentially commit the company to a go-it-alone strategy. ... |
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Motorola Exec: Windows Phone Was Too Late, Too LittlePCWorld - Nancy Gohring - 16 Feb, 2011Motorola appears to have firmly shut the door on the possibility of using Windows Phone software. "I don't envision us using Microsoft. I would never say never but it's not something we're entertaining now," said Christy ... |
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