Rajeev Suri has only been the CEO of Nokia Siemes Networks since October 1, 2009, yet he managed to drop this quote in Finnish newspaper Helsingin Sanomat: “In early 2008 we made a strategic decision to focus more on cash flow and profitability than on the market share. Now it’s time to give it up…
Nokia Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki: We may sell our handset manufacturing business
Nokia’s Anssi Vanjoki has always been the one executive from Finland who provides, on a near consistent basis, one line quotes that are ridiculously memorable. He called the camera in the iPhone a “toy camera”. When he announced Ovi in London in August 2007 and then proceeded to demo a concept of what Nokia’s touch…
Photo: In 2015 Nokia will try to remove 7 letters from the English alphabet
Fluffy public relations article was published in the Telegraph on Saturday. It talks about Nokia and how they think the future will look. In the concept photo that Nokia provided they managed to chop off a row of keys from the QWERTY keyboard. Looks like we’ll all be speaking this new Nokia version of English…
Walter Cronkite, the man, is in no way, shape, or form similar to Twitter, the medium
I promised myself I would keep my laptop shut off this weekend so that I could do some actual reading, as in you know, from a book, but after reading MG Siegler’s piece in TechCrunch titled “In The Age Of Realtime, Twitter Is Walter Cronkite” on my mobile fone, I knew I had to post…
Nokia advertising “Comes With Music” on Spotify
I can not believe what I just heard while listening to music this morning. Nokia is advertising their “Comes with Music” service on Spotify. That would be like Boeing putting up a billboard on the opposite side of the Taliban’s cave advertising free flying lessons. Or it would be like MySpace telling everyone who just…
The best phone to enjoy this holiday season is the one already in your pocket [anti-consumerism]
Welcome to the last 35 days of 2009. The economy looks like the shit you took when you woke up Sunday afternoon after a weekend of heavy drinking and late night snacks at the kebab stand around the corner, the one owned and operated by the illegal Turkish immigrants living in your neighborhood. American unemployment…
Kid who Rick Rolled jailbroken Australian iPhones lands job as a developer
Remember the iPhone worm Will talked about a little over 2 weeks ago, the one that made an estimated 21,000 jailbroken iPhones in Austrilia with SSH installed switch their wallpaper to an image of Rick Astley? The guy who developed that worm is a 21 year old named Ashley Towns. He just scored a job…
Nokia and Infineon to work together on HSPA, LTE chips and creating the LTE Advanced standard
Nokia and Infineon are going to be working together to create HSPA and LTE chips. Nokia will be handling the modem side, while Infineon will be dealing with the hard part, the RF implementation. Since Nokia got rid of their ASIC designers back in August 2007, the Finnish company been partnering with everyone in the…
AT&T: Stop telling the American people that net neutrality is a good thing
AT&T’s Chief Lobbyist, Jim Cicconi, is pissed that Andrew McLaughlin, the White House Chief Technology Officer, said this regarding China’s censorship of the internet and how companies in the USA are treating their networks: “If it bothers you that the China government does it, it should bother you when your cable company does it.” Jim…
ABI Research: 100 operators are trialing LTE right now, 40 of those are in Asia
Analysts over at ABI Research are saying that as of the end of September 2009, there are 100 operators around the world who are trialing, or close to trialing, LTE technology. Of those 100, over 40 of them are in Asia. Close to 200 operators are in the process of upgrading from 3G to HSPA+,…