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Nokia buys Alcatel-Lucent
Networking suppliers hook up in £11.2bn deal with grand aims when it comes to network innovation.
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Nokia just bought Alcatel-Lucent for $16.6 billion
Nokia could soon be the largest maker of mobile phone network equipment in the world ahead of Ericsson and Huawei. It just acquired French telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent for 15.6 billion euros ($16.6 billion), or more than double the $7 billion Microsoft paid for its Windows Phone handset arm.
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Nokia may return with a new phone next year
It’s been nearly a year since Microsoft acquired Nokia’s phone business, and rumors suggest the Finnish company may be plotting a return to selling phones. Recode reports that Nokia is planning to return to the consumer mobile market as early as next year, citing two sources briefed on Nokia’s plans. It’s not clear exactly how Nokia plans to return, but the company is currently restricted from using the Nokia brand on phones until Q4, 2016.
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Snake is returning to mobile devices with a new rewind feature!
The classic game is being revived for modern smartphones with a new rewind feature.
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Matti Makkonen: Finnish pioneer of texting tech dies
Matti Makkonen, who pioneered SMS technology and launched the worldwide sensation of texting, has died.
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Audi, BMW and Daimler Near Deal to Buy Nokia Mapping Service
A group of German auto makers agreed to pay slightly more than €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) for Nokia’s digital mapping service, prevailing over Silicon Valley bidders in a battle for a key enabling technology for self-driving cars. German luxury car makers Audi, a unit of Volkswagen AG, Mercedes-Benz parent Daimler AG, and BMW AG have agreed in principle to purchase the telecommunications group’s digital mapping service Nokia Here, according to a person familiar with the situation.
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Nokia Nearing Sale Of HERE Maps To German Trio Of BMW, Volkswagen, And Mercedes-Benz
Nokia, in their continuing withdrawal from the mobile phone and software industry, appears close to selling off their best remaining asset in that market.
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Nokia Is Gearing Up for a Mobile Comeback
Nokia is hiring software experts, testing new products and seeking sales partners as it plots its return to the mobile phone and consumer tech arena it abandoned with the sale of its handset business. Once the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, the Finnish firm was wrongfooted by the rise of smartphones and eclipsed by Apple and Samsung. It sold its handset business to Microsoft in late 2013 and has since focused squarely on making telecoms network equipment.
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After Nokia Layoffs, Tech Workers in Finland Regroup and Refocus
Kimmo Kalliola knows the feeling that thousands of Finns have been dealing with over the last couple of years. He spent more than a decade working on geolocation positioning at Nokia, a highly technical job, but the Finnish tech giant hit hard times. In late 2012, Mr. Kalliola and 10,000 others at the company were laid off.
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Six months with a dumbphone
In yearning for simplicity, the question is its own answer. Or maybe just get something old from Nokia. A while back, I realized that something was amiss in my relationship with my telephone. Notifications, email, Facebook, Twitter… it all became a constant drain on on my attention, the internet following me around like a shadow. I just couldn't give it up! So I asked the readers of Boing Boing about the current situation with low-end dumbphones...
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Nokia name to return to mobile phones after licensing deal
The Nokia name will return to the mobile phone market after a company backed by one of its former executives teamed up with manufacturer Foxconn to buy the rights to the brand for mobile devices. Nokia, once the world's biggest maker of mobile phones, was wrongfooted by the rise of smartphones and eclipsed by Apple and Samsung. It sold its entire handset business to Microsoft Corp in 2014 and now focuses on telecoms network equipment.
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Nokia Reaches 1Tbps Data Transfer Speed, 1,000 Times Faster Than Google Fiber
Nokia may have departed from the mobile market but many of us are unaware of the true potential of the Finnish corporation. Nokia’s acquisition of Alcatel-Lucent last year also welcomed Bell Labs (now Nokia Bell Labs) to become a part of the Nokia family. Bell Labs was founded in 1925 by Alexander Graham Bell who invented the first working telephone. Nokia Bell Labs, along with the Techincal University of Munich and Deutsche Telkom T-Labs, has been working on a network speed enhancement method. Known as Probabilistic Constellation Shaping (PCS)...
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Nokia says it can deliver internet 2,000 times faster than Verizon Fios
Nearly every month, Verizon Fios defends its title as the fastest ISP in Netflix's speed index. From time to time, another ISP will unseat the champion, but the change never lasts long. Of course, some have argued that such speed index tests are inaccurate and grossly over-simplified. However, it's hard to argue against the fact that Verizon Fios is a name synonymous with internet that's fast as hell. How fast is that exactly? Well, the top plan currently offered is 500 Mbps both up and down.
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Francisco Tárrega - Gran Vals
This song was the inspiration for Nokia´s famous ringtone. Francisco de Asís Tárrega y Eixea (21 November 1852 - 15 December 1909) was an influential Spanish composer and guitarist of the Romantic period.
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Nokia's new owner launches its first Android smartphone
The first Nokia Android smartphone from the brand's new owner has finally arrived, but it comes with bad news for folks who want to try it out: It will only be available in China. Finnish company HMD Global, which acquired the rights to release Nokia-branded devices after Microsoft abandoned the venture, started by releasing dumb phones in 2016. The Nokia 6, however, is a legit LTE smartphone that runs Nougat out of the box.
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They Built the First Phone You Loved. Where in the World Is Nokia Now?
The Finnish giant missed the smartphone revolution. Now it wants to power a new world of driverless cars and telemedicine.
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This $2,500 Nokia phone commemorates the meeting of Trump and Putin
Some people buy newspapers to remember historical events. Others buy customized Nokia smartphones. As first spotted by TechCrunch, a Russian phone-customization company debuted its latest creation this week: a new Nokia 3310 with embedded, gold-plated portraits of US president Donald Trump and Russian president Vladimir Putin on the back. The phone is meant to commemorate the two world leaders meeting at the G-20 Summit in Hamburg.
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Nokia Wants To Make Its Android Phones The New Nexus Phones
Google’s Nexus line of phones is now dead. But Nokia, under the stewardship of HMD Global, could well bring back elements of what made Google’s Nexus phones so popular with users. Things like stock Android, fast updates and competitive pricing. In a recent release, HMD noted it is putting in place a new strategic partnership with Google and Foxconn to further its gains in the mobile space during 2017/18.
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Apple paid Nokia $2 billion to escape fight over old patents
Apple’s latest patent spat with Nokia resulted in a $2 billion up-front payment from the iPhone maker, a colossal sum that seems to indicate Apple was eager to avoid a protracted and ugly dispute.
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Nokia 8 unboxing and first impressions: the torchbearer is finally out, and doesn’t disappoint
Nokia’s much-hyped comeback into the phone segment has been a tad unexciting so far, truth be told. Ironically, the refreshed Nokia 3310 feature phone managed to steal the thunder away from the trio of Android smartphones unveiled by the brand back at MWC. The Nokia 3, 5 and 6 are slotted into the budget and affordable segments, but what the world has really been waiting for is a true-blue flagship, a contender that can stand proudly against premium smartphones from the likes of Samsung, LG, Google and HTC.
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