Verizon exec: We don't need Windows Phone 7 â€" or Nokia

Seattle Post Intelligencer (blog) - 17 Feb, 2011
Verizon Wireless, the nation's largest mobile carrier, is satisfied with its three smart-phone platforms and doesn't need Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, the company's chief technology officer said Wednesday. Tony Melone told CNET News that the mobile ...

Nokia and Microsoft deal: View from Mobile World Congress

BBC News - 17 Feb, 2011
A great deal of talk at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona has centred on the announcement that Nokia will start using Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 instead of its own Symbian operating system. The move follows falling sales from the world's biggest ...

Fronts shift in smartphone war with Nokia-Microsoft tie-up

AFP - Richard Lein - 17 Feb, 2011
BARCELONA, Spain â€" Nokia's decision to join forces with Microsoft marks a major shift in the global smartphone war but the big question is whether the Finnish company opted for the right partner. Nokia's switch to Microsoft's Windows Phone operating ...

Nokia shares plunged as market realised Windows Phone calamity

Inquirer - Rob Coppinger - 17 Feb, 2011
THE IGLOO BUNKER that must be Nokia headquarters could be experiencing a febrile atmosphere by now as the shareholders have voted with their brokers and sold shares in the Finnish firm en masse. The pre-announcement buzz for the ...

Microsoft-Nokia Alliance Will Have to Get the Bugs Out

New York Times - Kevin J. O'Brien - 17 Feb, 2011
By 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, ...

Nokia timetable rules out Windows Phone 7

Telegraph.co.uk - Matt Warman - 17 Feb, 2011
When 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 is

Reuters - Tarmo Virki - 17 Feb, 2011
BARCELONA, 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, ...

Nokia 'Plan B' a Hoax

Wall Street Journal - 17 Feb, 2011
The 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. ...

Nokia Windows Phones won't launch before October

The Guardian (blog) - 17 Feb, 2011
Just 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 2012

Inquirer - Rob Coppinger - 17 Feb, 2011
A 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 ...

Spanish whispers on Microsoft and Nokia

Register - Bill Ray - 17 Feb, 2011
MWC 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. ...

Technology & you - 18 Feb 2011

FM.co.za - Duncan McLeod - 17 Feb, 2011
The 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? ...

Smartphones the way of the future?

Independent Online - Ronan Price - 17 Feb, 2011
Barcelona - More smartphones were sold than computers in the last quarter for the first time ever, thanks to the explosive popularity of devices such as the iPhone and BlackBerry. Mobile makers shipped more than 100 million smartphones ...

The Technology Newsbucket: Nokia-Microsoft under the microscope, Google feels ...

The Guardian (blog) - 17 Feb, 2011
A 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 ...

Finland's fortunes in balance as Nokia opens Windows

New Zealand Herald - Peter Griffin - 17 Feb, 2011
Wow, I'd love to be a fly on the wall at the Nokia booth at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona this week - well, on the wall of the meeting room housing the companies top executives and emissaries from Microsoft, Google and other ...

Nokia rivals prepare to pounce on market share

Financial Times - Andrew Parker, Paul Taylor - 17 Feb, 2011
Nokia'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. ...

Nokia CEO: Why we're more relevant than ever

USA Today - Chris Taylor - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
Facing 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 need

Reuters - Tarmo Virki - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
BARCELONA 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. ...

Nokia Tested by Shareholders, Union

Wall Street Journal - Arild Moen, Christopher Lawton - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
HELSINKIâ€"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 ...

Microsoft talks about Nokia and enterprise

ZDNet UK - David Meyer - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
Casey 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 ...

Microsoft's smartphone partners: history lessons

ZDNet UK - Charles McLellan - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
Does 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 Online

New York Times (blog) - Jenna Wortham - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
BARCELONA, 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, ...

Dissenting Nokia shareholders stop throwing toys from pram

Register - Andrew Orlowski - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
The 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 ...

Plan B uprising against Nokia leadership dies an early death

Inquirer - Asavin Wattanajantra - ‎Feb 16, 2011‎
A 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 ...

Nokia: Going (micro)soft

Mail & Guardian Online - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Ten 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 ...

Nokia Rebel Shareholders: Fire Elop, Bring Back MeeGo (NOK, MSFT)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
A 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. ...

Nokia Shareholders Divided On Strategy View

Wall Street Journal - Arild Moen, Christopher Lawton - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
HELSINKI (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 ...

Nokia-Microsoft pact seen creating Google rival

Reuters - Luke MacGregor - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
Nokia 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 ...

Group of shareholders calls for Plan B

MarketWatch - Aude Lagorce - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
BARCELONA (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 ...

Dissenting Nokia shareholders: Bring us the head of Stephen Elop

Register - Andrew Orlowski - ‎Feb 15, 2011‎
A 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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