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[CIO Grid Computing] SEC filings highlight the risks of Microsoft deal. Nokia has laid out the threats it faces as part of its planned deal with Microsoft in a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission.

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[CIO News] Nokia warns Windows Phone 7 remains unproven: "The Windows Phone platform is a very recent, largely unproven addition to the market focused solely on high-end smartphones with currently very low adoption and consumer awareness relative to the Android and Apple platforms, and the proposed Microsoft partnership may not succeed in developing it into a sufficiently broad competitive smartphone platform," Nokia wrote in the filing.

[TechCrunch Europe] Nokia heading to Silicon Valley? And the 'Standing on a burning ...: Going WP7 seems incredibly short-sighted, handing over virtual control of your high-margin products to another company is suicidal, at least with Android Nokia can build their own eco-system on top of it. While the Qt development platform can be made to work on both WP7 and Android (aka Qt Lighthouse) allowing Nokia to offer one unified eco-system and platform for developers to target and one unified marketing message, I don’t see Microsoft being to happy with Nokia doing that to them whereas Google probably wouldn’t care too much.

[WinExtra] How the Microsoft & Nokia deals shows tech bias and no business ...: As Apple solidifies its grasp on the tablet market and Android deals with a growing fragmentation the pundits are looking to Microsoft to see what its moves are going to be in this still new tablet marketplace. On Microsoft’s part they aren’t say much but what is being said is leaving a lot of pundits [...]

[VentureBeat] Will Nokia build Windows phones? | VentureBeat: Microsoft's penchant for releasing silly nonsense products like the Kins, and its latest HP Windows 7 Tablet PC are further eroding Microsoft's public reputation in mobile. If OEMs want competition in mobile operating systems, they'd be better off backing MeeGo which (due to the GPL) does not make them 100% beholden to the OS vendor, like Windows Phone 7 does.

[brian s hall] Nokia files report with SEC re Microsoft partnership | brian s hall: The Windows Phone platform is a very recent, largely unproven addition to the market focused solely on highend smartphones with currently very low adoption and consumer awareness relative to the Android and Apple platforms, .

[VentureBeat] More rumors of a convergence of the MacBook family | VentureBeat: The devices are said to look less like the current MacBook Pro (which also has an aluminum enclosure) and more like a cross between the MacBook Air (Apple’s ultra-slim notebook) and the current iMacs. It is certainly possible that Apple is giving the MacBook the same treatment it gave to the iMac last year.

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