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Nokia Plan B, the Sound of a Shareholder Revolt
A group identifying themselves as “nine young Nokia shareholders” has written an open-letter to Nokia’s shareholders and investors in a blog post aptly named “An open letter to Nokia shareholders and institutional investors.” In their letter, they state that they plan to seek challenge the company’s current strategy at the next Annual General Meeting on ...
Brightstar Seeks to Turn Wireless Operators into Mobile Customer Whisperers with Big Data
With the slow rise of infrastructure supporting LTE networks, more-and-more manufacturers are building into the Internet of Things, and this means further pressure on wireless carriers to support the upcoming onslaught. On one hand, the Internet is facing a resource crisis when it comes to the IPv4 address space drying up; but on the other ...
Zynga Value Expands Beyond $7b, Seeks Another Round of Investment
Social media seems to be the boom child of the current flurry of investment and probably represents a bubble that a lot of investors are trying to pile onto. Current valuations place social-gaming developer, Zynga Inc.—the producer of such popular hits as Farmville and Cityville—somewhere between $7b and $10b. Right now they’re holding discussions with ...
Nokia Expects to Provide its own Value-Add to Microsoft’s Developer Environment
This year’s Mobile World Conference started on Valentine’s Day 2011, possibly landing some of the technologists attending the expo today in hot water with their sweeties—but when it comes to the industry, it is indeed a day for love. As we’ve already know Nokia and Microsoft have announced their joining in a wide-reaching smartphone venture. ...
Egypt’s Social Future: Democracy in Preparation
Today we got the news that President Mubarak has finally ended his 30-year reign over the Egyptian people after over two-weeks of stiff protests from citizens and heavy pressure from the rest of the world. During the protest and social siege we saw what governments can do to attempt to shut down dissent—even as far ...
The Microsoft-Nokia Connection Rumors Finally Become Official and it May Not be a “Bad Thing”
The announcement came down today in a joint letter between Nokia’s Stephen Elop and Microsoft’s Steve Ballmer. The letter described a comprehensive deal between the two corporations with a great deal of deep integration between Nokia’s products and the Windows Phone 7 and Microsoft software family (including Bing, Microsoft’s flagship search product.) This comes almost ...
Will We See the Rise of Robot Journalists? Reporters and a Carnegie Mellon team want to Know
In an experiment designed to use intelligent systems to write news stories an coalition of journalists and computer scientists aim to test current computing technology and human power to see if they can’t generate automated news stories. The experiment doesn’t expect to produce anything that could replace actual human reporters; but it will demonstrate the ...
Tagged Makes New Friendships with Big Data
Back in 2004, about the same time MySpace came into its popularity, Tagged began its journey. As a social network, Tagged is a social discovery network—it’s less about keeping up with friends, and more about discovering new relationships. Where sites like Facebook put people together with people they might already know, Tagged puts people together ...
HP webOS Event Underway: Announced Palm Pre 3, Veer, Touchpad
As we all may know by now, Hewlett-Packard acquired Palm last summer to the smoking tune of $1.2 billion and we’ve been looking forward to HP putting them to good use. Today, HP is holding a press conference covering just that. Mike Melanon over at ReadWriteWeb has some excellent coverage of the opening gestures of ...
Nokia CEO Stephen Elop to Team, “It’s Time to Jump From This Burning Platform”
In a brutally honest memo, Nokia CEO Stephen Elop addressed his company and employees with what might be a corporation’s version of hitting the collision alarm and cramming the tiller hard to port. In sailing school, students are often reminded of the phrase, “tiller towards trouble,” because of a particular nautical fact that the boat ...
