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Open Letter from CEO Stephen Elop, Nokia and CEO Steve Ballmer, Microsoft — GLOBAL - Today in London, our two companies announced plans for a broad strategic partnership that combines the respective strengths of our companies and builds a new global mobile ecosystem.
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Eric S. Raymond / Armed and Dangerous:
The Smartphone Wars: Nokia's Suicide Note — Stephen Elop has jumped his company off the burning platform, all right. And, I judge, straight into the fire. — No, the choice that seals Nokia's doom isn't the tie-up with Microsoft (though that's problematic enough, and I'll get back to it).
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Nokia and Microsoft Announce Plans for a Broad Strategic Partnership to Build a New Global Mobile Ecosystem — Companies plan to combine assets and develop innovative mobile products on an unprecedented scale. — Nokia and Microsoft today announced plans to form a broad strategic partnership …
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Robert Scoble / Scobleizer:
Dear Nokia fans: you're nuts! — If you go over to Nokia's announcement where they announced a sweeping deal with Microsoft and read all the comments you'll see that most of the comments are in total despair mode. — It's like a bunch of Google employees are astroturfing the comments there.
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GigaOM, deal architect, SmoothSpan Blog, PC World, SiliconANGLE and Gadgetell, Thanks:kevinctofel
Horace Dediu / asymco:
In memoriam: Microsoft's previous strategic mobile partners — Microsoft's new “strategic partnership” with Nokia is not its first. For a decade the software company has courted and consummated relationships with a variety of companies in mobile and telecom. Here are the ones I can remember:
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TechCrunch Europe, ReadWriteWeb, GigaOM, WinRumors, FierceWireless and Microsoft
Nokia:
Nokia outlines new strategy, introduces new leadership, operational structure — London, UK - Nokia today outlined its new strategic direction, including changes in leadership and operational structure to accelerate the company's speed of execution in a dynamic competitive environment.
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Aidan Biggins / @aidanbiggins:
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SlashGear, Gearlog, TechSpot, Electricpig.co.uk and Phones Review
Matt Bencke / Windows Phone Developer Blog:
What the Nokia Deal Means for Microsoft Developers
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eWeek, Download Squad, The Next Web and WMPoweruser.com
Stephen Elop / @selop:
@cheureux Or this: Two bicycle makers, from Dayton Ohio, one day decided to fly. #NokMsft #feb11
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Digits, IntoMobile, MobileTechWorld, Engadget, asymco, TechCrunch and WMPoweruser.com
Thomas Ricker / Engadget:
Nokia Q&A reveals more MeeGo details and tablet plans …
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Robin Wauters / TechCrunch:
Former Microsoft Vet Chris Weber To Lead Nokia's USA Business, Louison Is Out
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PR Newswire, 901am and IntoMobile
Mark Spoonauer / LAPTOP Mag:
Intel: “We're Not Blinking on MeeGo”
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VentureBeat, GigaOM, Softpedia News, MobileCrunch, Electronista and i'm special, Thanks:mspoonauer
Jussi Rosendahl / Reuters:
Nokia to cut thousands of jobs in Finland: union
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VentureBeat, Engadget, The Next Web, Digital Daily, ReadWriteWeb, Geek.com and thinq_
Brooke Crothers / CNET News:
MacBook Air ‘Sandy Bridge’ update expected in June — Apple is targeting a MacBook Air update for this summer that will include a move to Intel's Sandy Bridge processors, CNET has learned. — Initial shipments of Intel's Sandy Bridge processor were snafued on January 31 by a minor glitch …
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Mark Gurman / 9 to 5 Mac:
AT&T says thank you to iPhone users with 1000 bonus minutes (updated: for everyone!) — AT&T is continuing to say thank you to their iPhone users who are sticking with them. Last week was a 20% off an accessory coupon and this week is a free extra 1000 rollover minutes.
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AppAdvice, Life On My Mobile, iLounge, @taylorbuley, Neowin.net and RazorianFly
Leena Rao / TechCrunch:
Wael Ghonim: If You Want To Liberate A Government, Give Them The Internet — By now, you've probably heard the news that Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped down, with massive crowds celebrating their new freedom in Cairo's Tahrir Square. I happened to be watching the coverage …
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Emily Banks / Mashable!:
Egyptian President Steps Down Amidst Groundbreaking Digital Revolution
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@rafat
John Bussey / Wall Street Journal:
How to Handle Employee Activism: Google Tiptoes Around Cairo's Hero — As the world marveled this week at the remarkable story of Wael Ghonim, the Google manager who helped organize a popular rebellion in Egypt, a great sigh of relief could be heard rising from much of the rest of American business:
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Stuart Miles / Pocket-lint:
Samsung 10.1-inch Honeycomb tablet to debut at MWC — EXCLUSIVE: Tab two just days away — Pocket-lint sources have confirmed that Samsung will launch a Honeycomb-packing 10.1-inch tablet on Sunday night at the start of Mobile World Congress. — The new device will be thinner and lighter …
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Examiner, Yahoo! News, The Toybox Blog, Pulse2, Android Community, IntoMobile, Liliputing, Softpedia News, Fonehome.co.uk and Geeky-Gadgets
Julian Lee / The Age:
War looms as Sony hints that it will abandon iTunes — SONY has signalled it may withdraw its artists from Apple's iTunes store and withhold its games from the iPhone in a sign the two companies are on the brink of all-out war. Sony plans to open a competitor to iTunes …
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MacRumors, Macworld, AppleInsider, 9 to 5 Mac, RazorianFly, SlashGear and TiPb
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Evan Blass / pocketnow.com:
Galaxy S 2, Desire HD2, Desire 2, Wildfire 2 Full Specs Leaked — Even more pre-MWC leaks from Expansys, as the company has now posted full spec sheets on the HTC Desire HD2, Samsung Galaxy S 2, HTC Desire 2, and HTC Wildfire 2. As suspected, the Galaxy S 2 is said to run …
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Mobile Fun, Android Phone Fans, Electronista, PhoneArena, Fonehome.co.uk, BGR, Geeky-Gadgets, Softpedia News, Pocket-lint and Techie Buzz
David Kravets / Threat Level:
Sony to Inspect PlayStation Hacker's Hard Drive — SAN FRANCISCO — PlayStation 3 jailbreaker George Hotz must allow console-maker Sony to comb through his computer's hard drive and retrieve information “that relates to the hacking of the PlayStation,” a federal judge ruled Thursday.
Michael Arrington / TechCrunch:
One Kings Lane Grows 500% In 2010, Takes $23 Million Investment — One Kings Lane, cofounded by Zynga CEO Mark Pincus' wife Alison Pincus, has raised its second round of financing. — And it's a big one - $23 million in a round led by Greylock Partners and Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers.
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NBC Bay Area, Fortune and eMoney
Ed Bott / Ed Bott's Microsoft Report Blog:
First legal shots fired at Google's VP8 codec — Google wants to make its VP8 video codec a patent-free standard. The competition just threw down the first big challenge to that strategy. — MPEG-LA, the group that manages the licensing of patents for the H.264 codec …
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GigaOM, The Register and Digital Trends, Thanks:fosspatents
Mike Melanson / ReadWriteWeb:
PayPal's Micropayment Solution Opens to the Public — Online payment company PayPal has opened up its micropayment solution to “game developers, media publishers, or anyone interested in selling digital content on a global scale.” The solution was first announced last October when the company …
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SAI, Pulse2, Softpedia News and Fast Company
