Microsoft Counts on Nokia Smartphones

Release Date 20 Oct, 2011 in Wall Street Journal

 
   
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Samsung Beats Apple in Smartphone Shipments

Wall Street Journal - Yun-Hee Kim - 20 Oct, 2011
HONG KONGâ€"Samsung Electronics Co. shipped more than 20 million smartphones in the quarter ended Sept. 30, according to a person familiar with the situation Thursday, beating close competitor Apple Inc., which sold 17.1 million units in ...

Nokia to unveil Windows phone next week

Hindustan Times - 20 Oct, 2011
Microsoft said on Thursday that Nokia is going to launch phones using Windows' new mobile operating system next week, giving a major boost to the US firm's come-from-behind phone software business. development for Microsoft as it struggles to capture a ...

Nokia to unveil Windows phone next week

AFP - 20 Oct, 2011
HONG KONG â€" Microsoft said Thursday that Nokia is going to launch phones using Windows' new mobile operating system next week, giving a major boost to the US firm's come-from-behind phone software business. Windows Phone division chief Andy Lees said ...

Microsoft to launch Mango smartphones with Nokia, Samsung soon

Reuters India - Charles Platiau, Chris Lewis - 20 Oct, 2011
General view of Microsoft Corporation new headquarters in Issy-les-Moulineaux, near Paris October 6, 2009. Microsoft, which has been trailing Apple and Google in the fast-growing smartphone market, said it will launch Mango-powered handsets from top ...

Microsoft to launch Mango smartphones with Nokia, Samsung soon

Reuters - Lee Chyen Yee, Jonathan Gordon - 20 Oct, 2011
HONG KONG (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp, which has been trailing Apple Inc and Google Inc in the fast-growing smartphone market, said it will launch Mango-powered handsets from top makers including Nokia Oyj, ...

Nokia smartphone recovery in focus after weak Q3

Reuters India - Tarmo Virki, Helen Massy-Beresford - 20 Oct, 2011
A girl tests out the new Nokia N8 mobile phone at the Nokia Flagship store in Helsinki September 10, 2010. By Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia is expected to report a rare loss for the third quarter as the ...

Microsoft Counts on Nokia Smartphones

Wall Street Journal - Evan Ramstad - 20 Oct, 2011
HONG KONGâ€"Microsoft Corp. is counting on Nokia Corp.'s rollout of new smartphones next week to give its mobile software a "huge lift," the company's phone chief said Thursday. Speaking Thursday at the Asia D conference hosted by All ...

Samsung, Nokia to launch Mango phones soon

Times of India - 20 Oct, 2011
HONG KONG: Microsoft Corp, which has been trailing Apple Inc and Google Inc in the fast-growing smartphone market, will launch Mango-powered handsets from top makers including Nokia and Samsung Electronics Co Ltd in coming weeks, a senior executive ...

Windows Phone 'gets things done,' says Microsoft's Ballmer

Christian Science Monitor - Matthew Shaer - 20 Oct, 2011
Microsoft CEO Ballmer disses Android, gives props to Windows Phone (and the iPhone isn't bad, either). By Matthew Shaer / October 19, 2011 A Windows Phone 7 advertisement in Times Square. Steve Ballmer, CEO of Microsoft, said Wedneday that the Windows ...

Nokia smartphone recovery in focus after weak Q3

Reuters - Bob Strong, Tarmo Virki - 20 Oct, 2011
A corporate logo is displayed at the Nokia flagship store in Helsinki in this picture taken September 29, 2010. By Tarmo Virki, European Technology Correspondent HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia is expected to report a rare loss for the third quarter as the ...

Nokia smartphone recovery in focus after weak Q3

Reuters Canada - Tarmo Virki - 20 Oct, 2011
HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia is expected to report a rare loss for the third quarter as the struggling Finnish cellphone giant prepares to launch its first Windows phones next week. ...

Ballmer confirms Nokia phone debut; you can quote him on that

The Seattle Times - Janet I. Tu - 20 Oct, 2011
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer confirmed what's been widely speculated: Nokia will show its first Windows Phone devices next week during its Nokia World conference in London. Ballmer made his remark this week at the Web 2.0 summit in San Francisco, ...

Windows Phone Mango Update Released to 'Nearly Everyone'

PC Magazine - Chloe Albanesius - 20 Oct, 2011
Microsoft is opening up the Windows Phone 7.5 firehose, releasing the latest version of its mobile OS, known as Mango, to the majority of Windows Phone users. "Today we're fully opening the spigotâ€"slightly ahead of scheduleâ€"and ...

Some Nokia Employees Are Still In Serious Denial About The Company (MSFT, NOK)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - 20 Oct, 2011
Some Nokia employees are demoralized about the company's decision earlier this year to abandon Symbian and MeeGo and place a big bet on Microsoft's Windows Phone platform instead. As a result, the company's software development center in Tamere, ...

Windows Phone Has A Rough Rookie Year, No Sweat For Microsoft

Forbes - 20 Oct, 2011
It has been more than a year since Microsoft launched its new smartphone OS â€" Windows Phone 7. Sales of Windows Phone devices have been below expectations according to Steve Ballmer, but we didn't have any concrete numbers until analysts recently ...

Dropbox Blazing A Trail For Apple, Google, Amazon And Microsoft To Make Money

Forbes - 20 Oct, 2011
Dropbox is a new kind of service that makes a file saved in a special folder on your computer available on all your computers and mobile devices; it also puts the file in the cloud. This allows you to share files and folders across the Internet with ...

Nokia expecting further fall in Q3

BusinessWeek - Matti Huuhtanen - 20 Oct, 2011
Nokia Corp. is expected to report further slides in profits, revenue and market share on Thursday, as it struggles against fierce competition in the smartphone sector, which it hopes to enter with rejuvenated force with the new ...

Nokia May Post Loss, Lower Sales Before Windows Phone Debut

BusinessWeek - Diana ben-Aaron - ‎Oct 19, 2011‎
Oct. 19 (Bloomberg) -- Nokia Oyj may report a second consecutive quarterly loss tomorrow, with smartphone shipments falling to the lowest since 2009, as the company prepares its first handsets based on Microsoft Corp. ...

Windows Phone Mango Breaks Keyboard, Users Say

InformationWeek - Paul McDougall - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
The Mango update adds 500 new features to Microsoft's Windows Phone platform, but, according to some users, it does more than that--and not in a good way. According to posts on a popular tech forum, the update, ...

Boot up: HTC Radar review, free iPhone games making money, and iMessage 'no ...

The Guardian (blog) - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
"HTC's new sleek Radar device is the second Windows Phone 7.5 available from the company this year. The Radar features moderate specs and an improved 5-megapixel camera alongside the latest forward facing camera support in Microsoft's new and improved ...

Some Windows Phone Mango users report disappearing keyboards

The Seattle Times - Janet I. Tu - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
Some users of the Mango update of Windows Phone are reporting randomly disappearing onscreen keyboards. On forums such as Twitter, XDA-Developers and WMPoweruser.com, some users say their keyboards are not appearing as expected or disappearing while ...

Nokia: Look Past Q3 Report To Next Week's Windows Show

Barron's (blog) - Tiernan Ray - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
RBC Capital's Mark Sue this morning writes that Nokia's (NOK) Q3 results, expected to be reported Thursday morning, before the bell, are just a “placeholder,” with the real issue being whether people will buy phones based on Microsoft's ...

English: HTC Radar vs Nokia 701

YouTube - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
This a head to head review of the new HTC Radar vs the new Nokia 701. The HTC Radar runs ons Windows Phone 7.5. The Nokia 701 is running on Symbian Belle. Both phones have a 1GHz processor.

EARNINGS PREVIEW: Nokia Poised For Loss As Smartphone Sales Sag

Wall Street Journal - Arild Moen - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
HELSINKI (Dow Jones)--Nokia Corp (NOK), the world's biggest seller of mobile phones, is facing another quarterly loss on Thursday as tight cost controls and emerging market demand for its low-cost phones fail to ...

Windows Phone 7.5 users: Our keyboards keep disappearing

CNET - Lance Whitney - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
Users who have upgraded to the version 7.5 of Microsoft's Windows Phone are complaining that their keyboards randomly disappear or fail to appear when needed. ...

Windows growth concerns loom over Microsoft's 1Q

CanadianBusiness.com - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
By AP | October 18, 2011 REDMOND, Wash. (AP) â€" Microsoft Corp. will try to build on the positive buzz about the next version of Windows when the world's largest software maker releases its latest quarterly results after the stock market closes Thursday ...

Nokia Windows Phone handset is earmarked for November release

Inquirer - Kate O'Flaherty - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
By Kate O'Flaherty FINNISH PHONE MAKER Nokia could launch its first Windows phone 7.5 Mango handset in November, according to a leaked release schedule. Italian carrier TIM is showing a November release for the device, said a report on Knowyourmobile. ...

Mango shows Microsoft still has the taste for success in smartphones

The Guardian (blog) - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
Steve Jobs famously criticised Microsoft for having no taste and no culture. Windows Phone 7.5, the latest version of Microsoft's operating system for mobile phones, is a revolutionary product for its parent company because it has both in spades. ...

Clock ticks on Microsoft's Windows XP stragglers

ZDNet (blog) - Larry Dignan - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
Summary: According to Gartner, 2012 will be a pivotal year for the more than half of companies still running on Windows XP. You'd think that Microsoft's Windows XP would be dead and gone by now in the ...

Furnitureschina.com: Microsoft Will Invest $28 Million In Nokia And Samsung

MarketWatch (press release) - ‎Oct 18, 2011‎
Beijing, Oct 18, 2011 (ACN Newswire via COMTEX) -- According to the recent report of Furnitureschina.com, the software giant Microsoft has announced its plan to invest in the Mango market. In the UK, Microsoft has begun to act. ...

 

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