MeeGo is a Linux-based open source operating system project announced at Mobile World Congress in February 2010 through a partnership between Intel and Nokia. Ari Jaaksi, a VP of Nokia MeeGo has resigned this past week. Ari’s departure from MeeGo will not affect the rollout schedule for MeeGo’s first device at the end of 2010. Ari’s resignation follows the recent departure of former Nokia CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo and Anssi Vanjoki. [Engadget]
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Nokia Corporation (NYSE:NOK) was originally planning to launch the Nokia N8 by the end of this month, but it turns out that the phone has been pushed back to October so the company can make “some final amends.” The company is seeing a strong pre-order demand so it makes sense that the company is extremely concerned about its perfection. Below is the full statement about the delay:
“The amount of preorders has exceeded our expectations and we are working hard to deliver the Nokia N8 to the market. In some markets, we had planned to start delivering the Nokia N8s to our pre-order customers by the end of September. To ensure a great user experience, we have decided to hold the shipments for a few weeks to do some final amends. We’re thrilled with the response that we’ve had to the Nokia N8 and assure everyone who’ve pre-ordered it already that it’ll be worth the wait! We expect consumers to get their Nokia N8s during October.”
[Engadget]
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Shortly after hiring Stephen Elop as President and CEO, a major executive at Nokia Corporation has stepped down. Anssi Vanjoki, the head of Nokia’s smartphone division has resigned. Vanjoki will remain for another 6 months to help with the transition.
This resignation comes at a time when Nokia’s smartphone market share dropped 37.4% in the second quarter. They were at 45% one year earlier.
Before running the smartphone division, Vanjoki helped build the Nokia brand, even coming up with the distinctive Nokia ringtone. He was the head of marketing and the chief of the multimedia division that introduced the N series phones with navigation, videos, and music.
[Bloomberg]
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Nokia Corporation (NNYSE:NOK) has acquired mobile analytics company Motally. Motally currently has 8 employees.
Motally provides mobile application or website developers data about where visitors are coming from, what phone operator they use, how long the user has spent on the website, and what links they are clicking on. Three of Motally’s biggest customers are Fandango, Yelp, and Twitter.
[IntoMobile]
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