Nokia to adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, scuttling Symbian

Release Date ‎Feb 11, 2011‎ in Washington Post

 
   
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Elop gambles Nokia's future on Microsoft partnership

Straits Times - 13 Feb, 2011
'The game has changed from a battle of devices to a war of ecosystems,' Mr Elop (left) told reporters at a joint news conference with Microsoft CEO Steven ...

Tech excitement hits SA

Times LIVE - Tshepo Mashego - 13 Feb, 2011
KNOCK-ON EFFECT: A shopper talks on a cellphone while passing an advert for the new Nokia N8 in London. Nokia and Microsoft have teamed up to take on Google ...

Nokia Shifts its Loyalties . . . Sort of

PC World - Paul Suarez - 13 Feb, 2011
Nokia on Friday announced it forged an alliance with Microsoft to help both companies compete with Google's ...

Mike Elgan: Why Nokia is toast

Computerworld - Mike Elgan - 13 Feb, 2011
Computerworld - It's hard to remember now, but there was a time when Finland was at the center of the cell phone universe. ...

Nokia, Microsoft in smart phone alliance

BusinessWeek - 13 Feb, 2011
Nokia Corp. has announced that it will adopt Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Phone as its main platform on smart phones, in a major change of strategy. ...

7 Things to know about Nokia-Microsoft deal

Times of India - 13 Feb, 2011
Cellphone giant Nokia has teamed up with Microsoft to build an 'iPhone killer'. Standing alongside Microsoft's chief executive Steve Ballmer, ...

What the deal means

Ottawa Citizen - Vito Pilieci - 13 Feb, 2011
Nokia Chief Executive Stephen Elop, left, and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer announced the partnership Friday ...

Diana ben-Aaron, Bloomberg News

San Francisco Chronicle - 13 Feb, 2011
Nokia, the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, saw its stock tumble the most in almost 19 months on investor concern that a partnership with Microsoft ...

Nokia's Windows Phone 7 concept pictures leaked

Techtree.com - Prasad Naik - 13 Feb, 2011
Engadget has gotten their hands on some exclusive pictures of a concept Nokia phone running Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 OS. The device that you see in the ...

Nokia is gambling with its life, and billions

Telegraph.co.uk - Matt Warman - 13 Feb, 2011
Nokia is â€" for all its conspicuous fall from grace â€" a company that still sells millions of phones a day. In an age where the latest touchscreens and ...

Nokia, Microsoft CEOs' open letter

Times of India - 13 Feb, 2011
NEW DELHI: Technology titans Nokia and Microsoft are combining forces to make smartphones that might challenge rivals like Apple and Google. ...

Nokia to adopt Microsoft's Windows Phone 7, scuttling Symbian

Washington Post - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
A company that once stood atop the mobile-phone market is throwing in its lot with . . . another company that once stood atop the mobile-phone market. ...

Nokia Windows 7 phone design leaked?

Seattle Times (blog) - Brier Dudley - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Images of Nokia concept phones running Windows Phone 7 were posted this afternoon by AOL blog Engadget, and they look pretty credible. ...

Nokia and Microsoft announce partnership on smartphones

Irish Times - Ciara O'Brien - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
NOKIA AND Microsoft are to team up to take on Google and Apple in the fast-growing smartphone market. As part of the deal, Nokia will adopt Windows Phone as ...

Nokia Leaks Windows Phone 7 Prototype Image

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Nokia has leaked an image of a Windows Phone 7 prototype. It's still unknown when Nokia's first Windows Phone will ...

Nokia turns to Windows phone software

Xinhua - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
HELSINKI, Feb. 11 (Xinhua) -- The world's largest mobile phone maker, Nokia announced on Friday it will form a strategic partnership with US software giant ...

Enterprise iTunes: The challenges of mobile collaboration management

ZDNet (blog) - Oliver Marks - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Ex Microsoftie Nokia CEO Stephen Elop of Nokia announced he was 'diving forward' off the burning platform he ...

Nokia bets farm on Microsoft merger

Independent - Nick Clark - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
The question now is whether the decision to throw in its lot with Microsoft will be enough ward off the circling sharks or even keep its head ...

Nokia in Microsoft deal to build iPhone killer

Mirror.co.uk - Graham Hiscott - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
A SMART phone war was declared yesterday as Nokia teamed up with Microsoft to build an iPhone killer. ...

Together, Nokia and Microsoft Renew a Push in Smartphones

New York Times - Kevin J. O'Brien - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
By KEVIN J. O'BRIEN LONDON â€" Nokia, the struggling world leader in mobile phones, said on Friday that it would discard its own cellphone operating system ...

Nokia Phones Running Windows Could Look Like This (MSFT, NOK)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
The first pictures of prototype Nokia phones running Windows Phone 7 have leaked, and Engadget has them. The phones are just prototypes, but they're in the ...

Nokia ties its fate to Microsoft

MarketWatch - John Shinal - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Nokia's job cuts are going to affect thousands of Finns, and we spoke to someone in the Finnish government to get its reaction. ...

Nokia employees stage mass walkout to protest Microsoft agreement: report

Financial Post - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
More than 1000 Nokia Corp. workers based in Finland have reportedly left their posts, Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat reported late Friday. ...

HP and Google Reach Out To Fleeing Nokia Engineers (NOK, HPQ, GOOG)

San Francisco Chronicle - Matt Rosoff - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Engineers who worked on Nokia smartphone platforms Symbian and MeeGo are probably thinking about their next job moves since Nokia announced its move to ...

What Nokia's Windows move means for Open Source

ZDNet (blog) - Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Many of Nokia's open-source partners aren't happy with its new buddy-buddy friendship with ...

The Engineer-Driven Culture of Nokia

New York Times (blog) - Nick Bilton - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
What a busy week for Nokia. On Wednesday, Stephen Elop, the company's recently appointed chief executive, sent a note to Nokia employees ...

Analysis: Microsoft's Nokia deal no slam-dunk yet

Reuters - Bill Rigby - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
SEATTLE (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O) has yet to persuade investors that a deal to put its Windows software on Nokia Corp (NOK1V. ...

Nokia's Microsoft Pact: Why Apple And Google Won't Blink

Huffington Post - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Nokia's cell phone software has been compared to a turkey, a rotting corpse, and, by the company's own chief executive, a "burning platform" about to be ...

Nokia Makes Microsoft Future Viable

infoSync World - Sindre Lia - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
Nokia and Microsoft today officially announced a strategic partnership. We think Nokia makes Microsoft's integrated ...

Nokia-Microsoft Alliance Could End Patent War with Apple

PC World - Tony Bradley - ‎Feb 11, 2011‎
The marriage of Nokia and Microsoft is official. The smartphone alliance combining the Windows Phone 7 mobile OS from Microsoft ...

 

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