Microsoft-Nokia Alliance Will Have to Get the Bugs OutNew York Times - Kevin J. O'Brien - 17 Feb, 2011By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN BARCELONA â€" With so much uncertainty surrounding Nokia's smartphone alliance with Microsoft â€" like when their first phones will be ready â€" one thing is becoming clear: Both companies will have to make some difficult changes, ... |
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Nokia timetable rules out Windows Phone 7Telegraph.co.uk - Matt Warman - 17 Feb, 2011When Nokia announced its tie-up with Microsoft last week, reporting suggested that Windows Phone 7 and music service Zune would be coming to Nokia handsets. Closer analysis, however ... |
RPT-CORRECTED-(OFFICIAL)-ST-Ericsson: ready on WP7 when Nokia isReuters - Tarmo Virki - 17 Feb, 2011BARCELONA, Feb 17 (Reuters) - ST-Ericsson is focusing strongly on Microsoft's (MSFT.O) platform to deliver chips and will be ready when Nokia (NOK1V.HE) ramps up production of new Windows Phones, ... |
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Nokia 'Plan B' a HoaxWall Street Journal - 17 Feb, 2011The Nokia Plan B manifesto, which had set out to challenge the handset maker's strategy overhaul, was a hoax after all, according to a Twitter account associated with the website. "In case it's not 100% clear by now: NokiaPlanB is a hoax. ... |
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Nokia Windows Phones won't launch before OctoberThe Guardian (blog) - 17 Feb, 2011Just in case there was any doubt that you won't be seeing any Nokia handsets running Windows Phone for sale before October, here's some other data from other reporters â€" who had the pieces of the puzzle before Wednesday but hadn't fitted them together. ... |
Nokia Windows Phone will come out DOA in 2012Inquirer - Rob Coppinger - 17 Feb, 2011A WEEK is a long time in politics and it seems it is even longer in the new world of Nokia Microsoft Windows Phones as the first handsets are now expected to crash land not in 2011 but sometime in 2012. During the big announcement ... |
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Spanish whispers on Microsoft and NokiaRegister - Bill Ray - 17 Feb, 2011MWC 2011 Once the condition of offspring has been established, and the second round is on the table, conversation in Barcelona quickly turns to what everyone expects of Nokia's deal with Redmond. ... |
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Technology & you - 18 Feb 2011FM.co.za - Duncan McLeod - 17 Feb, 2011The intense competition and rapid innovation in the smartphone market have forced two of the industry's biggest players to team up. Microsoft and Nokia last Friday outlined a partnership aimed at keeping them relevant . Can Microkia succeed? ... |
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The Technology Newsbucket: Nokia-Microsoft under the microscope, Google feels ...The Guardian (blog) - 17 Feb, 2011A quick burst of 7 links for you to chew over, as picked by the Technology team Apple Becomes Top Worldwide Mobile PC Maker Thanks to iPad >> GigaOm "The Mac-maker accounted for 17.2 percent of all mobile PC shipments worldwide during the fourth ... |
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Nokia rivals prepare to pounce on market shareFinancial Times - Andrew Parker, Paul Taylor - 17 Feb, 2011Nokia's rivals are looking to eat into the market share of the world's largest maker of mobile phones as it embarks on the lengthy task of adopting Microsoft's smartphone operating system. ... |
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Nokia CEO: Why we're more relevant than everUSA Today - Chris Taylor - 17 Feb, 2011Facing a chorus of disapproval over its Microsoft deal, Nokia tried to switch focus today â€" by vowing to deliver Internet service to three billion new customers. By JOSEP LAGO, AFP/Getty Images Nokia CEO Stephen Elop speaks at ... |
Nokia says can tweak WP7, but sees no needReuters - Tarmo Virki - 17 Feb, 2011BARCELONA Feb 16 (Reuters) - Nokia's (NOK1V.HE) software pact with Microsoft (MSFT.O) allows it to tweak user interface (UI) on its phones, but it has no such plans, Nokia's technology chief Rich Green told a developer conference on Wednesday. ... |
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Nokia Tested by Shareholders, UnionWall Street Journal - Arild Moen, Christopher Lawton - Feb 16, 2011HELSINKIâ€"Mobile phone giant Nokia Corp. 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 of the ... |
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Microsoft talks about Nokia and enterpriseZDNet UK - David Meyer - Feb 16, 2011Casey McGee, a senior marketing manager at Microsoft, explained the implications of the partnership for Windows Phone and Symbian developers and spoke about the future of the surviving ... |
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Microsoft's smartphone partners: history lessonsZDNet UK - Charles McLellan - Feb 16, 2011Does the history of Microsoft's partnerships with mobile device manufacturers hold any clues as to how its tie-up with Nokia will go? We trawl the ZDNet archives for some instructive examples. ... |
Bits: Nokia Wants to Bring 3 Billion More OnlineNew York Times (blog) - Jenna Wortham - Feb 16, 2011BARCELONA, Spain â€" Last week Nokia announced plans to join forces with Microsoft in an effort to close the gap with fleet-footed rivals, like Apple and Google, that are making strides in the mobile industry. This morning, Stephen Elop, ... |
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Dissenting Nokia shareholders stop throwing toys from pramRegister - Andrew Orlowski - Feb 16, 2011The anonymous Nokia investors who boldly launched a "Plan B" for the company are giving up after just 48 hours. The group called for the dismissal of CEO Stephen Elop and outlined an alternative strategy ... |
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Plan B uprising against Nokia leadership dies an early deathInquirer - Asavin Wattanajantra - Feb 16, 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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Nokia: Going (micro)softMail & Guardian Online - Feb 15, 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 Rebel Shareholders: Fire Elop, Bring Back MeeGo (NOK, MSFT)San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - Feb 15, 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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RIM refused Nokia software partnership: reportNational Post (registration) - Feb 15, 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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Nokia Shareholders Divided On Strategy ViewWall Street Journal - Arild Moen, Christopher Lawton - Feb 15, 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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Nokia-Microsoft pact seen creating Google rivalReuters - Luke MacGregor - Feb 15, 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's Microsoft linkup is a brilliant move"Globes - Gad Perez - Feb 15, 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 - Feb 15, 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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Dissenting Nokia shareholders: Bring us the head of Stephen ElopRegister - Andrew Orlowski - Feb 15, 2011A group of purported Nokia shareholders and former employees has vowed to challenge the new company's strategy at the next AGM in May. The revolting shareholders' "plan B" calls for a return to "high ... |
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Nokia "Plan B" Shareholder Group A HoaxCRN - Rob Wright - 17 Feb, 2011A purported group of disgruntled Nokia shareholders that objected to the company's new partnership with Microsoft has revealed itself to be a hoax. Nokia Plan B emerged on Facebook Tuesday, calling itself a group of "nine young Nokia ... |
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Nokia Plan B campaign to oust Elop outed as a hoaxV3.co.uk - 17 Feb, 2011A Twitter update on the official Plan B account now reads: "there are no 'nine young investors', just one very bored engineer who really likes his iPhone." As obviously some were still unable to believe the terrible truth, another post read: "in case ... |
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Android Will Own 80% Of Smartphone Market Says KasperskyPhandroid.com - Rob Jackson - 17 Feb, 2011Windows dominates the PC Market but Microsoft isn't replicating their strategy OR success of the 1990s, which is why the CEO of Kaspersky (Eugene Kaspersky) says Android will own 80% of smartphone ... |
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Nokia To Customize WP7 OSCoolest Gadget Reviews - 17 Feb, 2011One of the criticisms that Motorola leveled against Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 operating system was that it was closed and inflexible. It was for these reasons that the company felt that Android was the better OS choice for them. ... |
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