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Nokia Siemens Networks has just announced that they plan to fire 17,000 people by the end of 2013; that’s 23% of their workforce according to Bloomberg. “These planned reductions are regrettable but necessary,” says Rajeev Suri, the CEO of NSN. The goal is to cut $1.3 billion in annual expenses and to put a laser…
Your wireless operator doesn’t care whether you like Android, the iPhone, or are stuck in the 90s and just talk and text. As long as you give them money, they’re happy. Their worst fear is churn, which is defined as you leaving them for a competitor’s network. Over the years operators have figured out ways…
Sabeer Bhatia (pictured above, left) isn’t exactly a household name. He’s one of the co-founders of Hotmail, the free email service that if you’re still using shows people that you’re too lazy to switch to a superior alternative like Gmail. About a year ago his wife pestered him to switch out her iPhone to a…
Qualcomm’s best known for their Snapdragon system on chip that combines a custom designed application processor, graphics processor, and connectivity, but did you know that they also make displays? Back in Februrary 2009 they announced that Inventec, a handset vendor you probably never heard of and likely will never care about, decided to incorporate a…
Apple’s next generation iPad, which we’ll assume will be called the iPad 3, is set to feature an ultra high resolution display. We’re talking 2048 x 1536 pixels, better known as QXGA. According to Richard Shim, an analyst at DisplaySearch who was interviewed by C|Net, production of said display has begun. The three companies building…
James Faucette, an analyst at Pacific Crest Securities, thought that Nokia would easily sell over 2 million Windows Phones by the end of this year. After doing some sell-through checks however, he revised his estimates down to just 500,000 units. Not exactly the type of news the Finnish handset maker needs right now. Faucette’s latest…
Budding teenagers once looked forward to owning their first car, being able to go wherever they wanted, when they wanted, but according to The New York Times today’s teens would rather own a smartphone. Five out of every ten 16 year olds had a driver’s license in 1978, but fast forward to 2008 and it’s…
Anyone remember the Asus Padfone? It was announced way back in May of this year, only to be delayed until 2012 while Asus tweaks it so that it can run Ice Cream Sandwich, the latest version of Google’s Android operating system. What makes the Padfone unique is that it slides into a tablet cradle, transforming…
Spotify has just sent out an invitation for an event simply dubbed “What’s next for Spotify?” that’s due to take place on November 30th in New York City. The CEO, Daniel Ek (pictured above, left), will be there, along with “special guests”. So what do these guys have up their sleeve? After launching their service…
The Motorola Droid RAZR is impossibly thin, measuring just 7.1 mm at its thinnest point, but it’s now officially considered obese thanks to the 6.7 mm thin Fujitsu Arrows F-07D. The Arrows will probably never leave Japan, which is a shame, but at least it demonstrates that building thin smartphones isn’t exactly impossible. Spec wise,…