July 22, 2014
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Believe it or not, only four years ago Nokia — poor, dying Nokia — was the No. 1 mobile phone company in the world. Since then, it was bought by Microsoft, which last week announced that it’s firing half of … Continue reading
September 3, 2013
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For decades, Microsoft was a software company. Now, with the purchase of Nokia’s phone division, Microsoft has officially shifted to being a serious hardware company as well. Microsoft: The hardware company. More >
November 13, 2012
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Most of the news about Nokia, the smartphone company, is bad. Nokia Siemens Network (NSN), the mobile broadband company, however, has some relatively good news According to a report from the telecom analyst company, the Dell’Oro Group, NSN’s third quarter … Continue reading
February 11, 2011
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When Nokia announced that it was going to use Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 for its smartphones some people saw this is a great move. Other folks, like yours truly, saw Nokia and Microsoft partnering being as dumb as betting that … Continue reading
February 11, 2011
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Well, I guess you can take the Microsoft executive out of Microsoft but you can’t take the Microsoft out of the executive. In what will prove Nokia’s final strategic blunder, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop, a former Microsoft senior executive, announced, … Continue reading