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The Linux Foundation - with support from many big names in the industry - has launched a project to build an open platform for network functions virtualisation (NFV).

Nokia has finally (finally!) released a classy, modern-era, MeeGo-powered smartphone in answer to all of its iCompetitors, including new partner Microsoft, with a claim to having the purest touch experience of them all.

Nokia has announced plans to transfer all Symbian software activities and 3000 staff to Accenture and to retrench a further 4000 staff, mostly in Denmark Finland and the UK.

Annual reports that US stock market listed companies are required to lodged with the SEC (aka Form 20-F) are of necessity pessimistic documents. They are required to list under 'risk factors' almost every conceivable eventuality that could befall a company.

A group of nine, as yet unidentified, Nokia shareholders opposed to the Microsoft alliance has set up a web site to lobby shareholder support for an alternative plan that would see the alliance scrapped, and CEO Stephen Elop sacked along with number of other senior executives.

The tie-up between Microsoft and Nokia, which will see the Finnish mobile phone company switch to using Windows on its mobiles, will have "a very chilling effect on Microsoft's already dissatisfied partners", according to a senior analyst at the technology market intelligence firm, ABI Research.

If Nokia is to realise its stated goal of selling another 150 million Symbian based smartphones, and making a success of its MeeGo platform it will need the developer community to remain loyal to the Qt developer platform in the wake of its betting its future on Windows Mobile 7.

There are No Kia cars in the new tie-up between Nokia and Microsoft, with Stephen 'Elop' clearly not willing to touch Android with a barge 'polE', but has Nokia e-lopped itself out of the smartphone race, or is the old Nokia the new Mokia?

The symbol for Android might be a cute little robot, but he's starting to get so big and powerful that mobile operators are looking for someone, other than Apple's IOS, to challenge him.

Research firm Strategy Analytics says Apple took 95% of the 4.4 million unit worldwide tablet market, while another firm finds unusually high satisfaction ratings among iPad owners.

Nokia is banking on the Qt application development framework to ensure a steady supply of future apps from developers for both the Symbian and MeeGo platforms, saying the decision "will ensure that applications will continue to be compatible with future evolutions of Symbian as well as upcoming MeeGo products.

Despite the iOS, Android and soon-to-come Windows Phone 7 onslaughts, Intel and Nokia's MeeGo OS won't be powering publicly available smartphones until the first half of 2011, according to an Intel executive, seeing the same kind of delays plaguing many other tablet and smartphone competitors.

New research and forecasting from Gartner suggests that Android will become the dominant mobile operating system in the near future. And while total unit sales will grow for all the players in this increasingly competitive market, Android will move from newcomer to leader in just five years.

The newly appointed head of Nokia Mobile Solutions, Anssi Vanjoki, has vowed to re-instate Nokia as market leader in high-end mobile devices.

Nokia Devices and Services has revised its guidance downwards, for the second time this year, in the face of intensifying competition at the high end of the market.

ARM, Freescale, IBM, Samsung, ST-Ericsson and Texas Instruments have formed a non-profit company, Linaro, to promote Linux-based distributions such as Android, LiMo, MeeGo, Ubuntu and webOS in a wide range of devices from cellphones to automotive and enterprise systems.

Nokia has re-organised its mobile phone business in a bid to better exploit the rapid growth of smartphones and the challenges from new vendors and technologies in the smartphones market.