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Symbian CEO’s resignation effective immediately

Published on: 26th October, 2010

Symbian CEO Lee Williams has resigned his position as an Executive Director of the Symbian Foundation and his resignation is effective immediately. Williams only gave personal reasons for his departure and will be replaced by the CFO of the Foundation, Tim Holbrow. Multiple blows have affected Symbian recently and some of its main proponents at [...]

Palm hunting Jaaksi from Nokia and Samsung executive for its revival

Published on: 21st October, 2010

The Palm team of Hewlett Packard has made a couple of key hires in its attempt of rekindling its smartphone plans. A source has revealed that Palm was triggering the sudden departure of Ari Jaaksi, Nokia’s MeeGo head, who would receive the position of senior vice president of webOS engineering. He is expected to start [...]

Citibank analyst says Foxconn raises prices for Apple, Nokia

Published on: 18th October, 2010

Analyst Chang Kaiwei from Citibank said that Foxconn would raise the prices it charges Microsoft, Apple and Nokia as a compensation for its workers’ second pay raise. Effective this month, the unspecified charges would keep up Foxconn’s profits and would at the same time improve its workers’ welfare. However, neither Foxconn nor its parent company [...]

Nokia manager acknowledges iPhone applications are a “must have” in Europe and US

Published on: 14th October, 2010

Cedric Thomas, Nokia’s Ovi head in France, in a presentation surprised developers by acknowledging that other companies, Apple and Google included, had better positions in the application market. Speaking at the platform-independent MIPCOM conference in Cannes, France, he said that iPhone applications represented a “must have” in countries of the European Union and the United [...]

Users in UAE not switching from BlackBerry despite suspension of services

Published on: 12th October, 2010

Users of BlackBerry in the United Arab Emirates are not willing to give up their phones, even if facing the suspension of services in case the government and Research in Motion do not reach an agreement. A recent report says that nearly all of the about 500,000 subscribers are confident a deal will be concluded. [...]

Google CEO trying to persuade Nokia to adopt Android

Published on: 8th October, 2010

Google’s CEO Eric Schmidt talked to Nokia trying to make it adopt Android and use it on its devices, according to sources. Since Nokia’s MeeGo head Ari Jaaksi was resigning, Schmidt probably talked to the new Nokia CEO Stephen Elop about the mobile operating system of Google. It is not known what exact answer Elop [...]

MeeGo device head left Nokia

Published on: 8th October, 2010

Another setback troubled Nokia’s smartphone plans. Rumors are that the MeeGo devices vice president Ari Jaaksi had left the company a week ago. No reason was given for his departure but it was said that the company’s plans related to having a MeeGo device ready to ship by the end of this year would not [...]

Sony extends legal action against PS3 “jailbreak” modification distributors

Published on: 5th October, 2010

Sony has extended its legal action pointing to distributors of PS3 “jailbreak” modifications. The initial lawsuit of the company was directed against the owners of PS Jailbreak, but recent documents show that PSFreedom, PSGroove and OpenPSJailbreak are also targeted now. Motions permitting Sony to serve subpoenas and deposition notices were granted by US District Judge. [...]

Rumors of Nokia using Windows Phone 7

Published on: 29th September, 2010

The decision of the Finnish company of hiring a former Microsoft executive as its CEO may have brought Windows Phone 7 as a choice of operating system, if rumors are true. The board of the company has given the new CEO Stephen Elop green light to change operating systems in an overall change of strategy. [...]

Nokia N8 postponed for October due to software glitches

Published on: 25th September, 2010

Nokia seems to have encountered another hold up for the release of its N8; the company declared that it had to postpone the launch of the handset for a few weeks because of some software bugs. Nokia had originally put the Symbian^3 flagship on track for late September, but it currently expects it to ship [...]

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