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Nokia Plan B, an initiative to unseat CEO Elop and restore Nokia to its roots, was revealed today to be a hoax. The plan emerged earlier this week when a group of nine young Nokia investors reportedly banded together to reverse the Finnish company’s decision to replace Symbian with Windows Phone. The unnamed group crafted…
At Nokia’s press event tonight at Mobile World Congress, CEO Stephen Elop fielded a variety of questions ranging from how he thinks Nokia will grab the attention of consumers to his share holdings in Microsoft. Interesting stuff all around, which you can read in the liveblog, but of most interest to those who are really…
Angry Birds developer Rovio seems everything but bullish on Nokia’s future, despite the new deal between the Finnish company and Microsoft. Here’s the whole story: Twitter user janole wrote: “Nokia can only be saved if [Rovio Mobile] announces Angry Birds for WP7 today!” Rovio tweeted back: “afraid there’s only so much we can do… Nokia…
Intel said in a statement on Friday that it will continue development of the MeeGo operating system. MeeGo is a joint venture between Nokia and Intel that merges the Maemo operating system, used by Nokia on its N-series tablets, and Intel’s Mobilin project. The mobile operating system was designed to power smartphones, tablets and embedded…
Nokia announced early this morning that it would be partnering with Microsoft to product Windows Phone 7 devices. It wasn’t unexpected, but it certainly was a bit of a surprise since we weren’t expecting this sort of announcement until later. Here we are just hours after that announcement and alleged concept phones are already surfacing.…
A few days ago, Google’s Vic Gondotra was taking some jabs on Twitter by saying that “Two turkeys do not make an Eagle.” with the #feb11 hashtag and many think this was a shot at the Nokia Microsoft partnership announced earlier today. Well, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop is firing back. “Two bicycle makers, from Dayton…
We have all been waiting for new Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to make some bold moves and I think that this morning’s announcements would qualify. In addition to moving to Windows Phone 7 for its smartphones, the company will be undergoing a massive restructuring that will include new leadership and changes to the operational work…
Reports from Finland say Nokia employees are walking out on work and taking the day off in protest of Windows Phone effectively replacing Symbian as the company’s primary OS. Just to give you an idea of how widespread the panic must be internally, Nokia’s Oulu office has a little under 2000 employees, about 1000 of…
There is so much going on in the world of Nokia this morning with its new Microsoft partnership. In the meantime, however, folks are still apparently enjoying their current handsets running Symbian and having all kinds of fun with them. The Nokia N8, in particular, has been the star of many videos, short films and…
Nokia and Microsoft made a historic announcement today that unites the two technology companies together in the mobile marketplace. The press event spans a memorable twelve minutes and features both Nokia CEO Stephen Elop and Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer. Watch the clip below and see first-hand how the two companies will work together to bring…