12 posts and columns on Anssi Vanjoki

Nokia to Apple: From Hell's Heart I Stab at Thee

in Mobile on March 29, 2011 at 8:55 am PT

Nokia’s obsession with Apple has officially crossed over into the Ahabian. Aghast at the U.S. International Trade Commission’s ruling on its first complaint against Apple, Nokia has filed a second, accusing Apple of infringing its patents “in virtually all of its mobile phones, portable music players, tablets, and computers.”

Exclusive: High-Profile Hires for Palm–Nokia’s Ari Jaaksi and Samsung’s Victoria Coleman

in News on October 14, 2010 at 5:48 pm PT

Earlier this month, Ari Jaaksi resigned as head of Nokia’s MeeGo division, citing “personal reasons” as the cause for his departure. Turns out “personal reasons” was actually a euphemism for “I’m joining Palm.” Sources close to the company tell me that Jaaksi has been hired on as senior vice president of webOS at Hewlett-Packard’s Palm division.

Nokia’s Ari Jaaksi: MeeGo Home Now

in News on October 5, 2010 at 7:01 am PT

The senior executive exodus at Nokia continues. Ari Jaaksi has resigned as head of the company’s MeeGo division, leaving Nokia as it prepares to launch handsets based on the new platform.
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An Exiting Nokia Executive on What Went Wrong

in News on September 23, 2010 at 2:06 am PT

If Anssi Vanjoki is anything, he’s direct. At Nokia World in London, the outgoing executive talked about what he did right in his nearly 20 years with the company, what went wrong and why the Finnish handset maker is struggling in the smartphone market.

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Another Top Nokia Exec Heads for the Door

in News on September 13, 2010 at 2:22 am PT

When Stephen Elop takes over as Nokia CEO from the ousted Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo next week, one of his first jobs will be finding someone new to lead the company’s faltering smartphone efforts. Just a day before the start of this year’s Nokia World conference, Executive Vice President Anssi Vanjoki, a longtime key exec who only a couple of months ago was named head of the Mobile Solutions unit, tendered his resignation with six months’ notice. Nokia’s brief news release offered no details on Vanjoki’s plans and, rather glaringly, no expression of thanks for 20 years of service.

Nokia Reorgs Evidently Biannual

in Mobile on May 11, 2010 at 7:10 am PT

“A simplified company structure.” Evidently, that is the solution to all Nokia’s problems–to the erosion of its share of the smartphone market and its failure to develop a worthy rival to the likes of Apple’s iPhone and Research in Motion’s BlackBerry. And so this morning, the handset maker announced another sweeping overhaul of its management structure, its second reorganization in less than a year.
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Nokia’s New Focus Is Mobile Services? Sure It’s Not Lawsuits Against Apple?

in Mobile on May 7, 2010 at 8:42 am PT

Nokia might not be able mount a reasonable challenge to Apple in the smartphone market, but it can certainly mount one in court. The company escalated its legal battle with the iPhone maker this morning, lodging a fourth patent-infringement complaint against it.
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Nokia Accuses Apple of “Legal Alchemy.” Stops Short of “Chymistry” and “Heresy.”

in Mobile on March 15, 2010 at 8:00 am PT

The rhetorical terpsichore in the Nokia-Apple patent-infringement spat is ramping up–and quickly. Late last week, the Finnish mobile phone maker asked a U.S. judge to dismiss Apple’s antitrust claims against it, disparaging them as “legal alchemy.”

Apple Countersues Nokia for Copying iPhone (Plus Disputed Patents and Full Text of Counterclaim)

in News on December 11, 2009 at 7:01 am PT

On Oct. 22, Nokia filed suit against Apple, accusing the company of hitching a “free-ride” on its intellectual property. This morning, Apple filed a searing countersuit accusing Nokia of the same thing. “Other companies must compete with us by inventing their own technologies, not just by stealing ours,” Bruce Sewell, Apple’s general counsel and senior vice president, said in a statement. Details and the full text of Apple’s counterclaim after the jump.
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Did Nokia Sue Apple Before Apple Could Sue Nokia?

in News on October 23, 2009 at 10:25 am PT

Analysts mulling over Nokia’s IP infringment suit against Apple seem to be of two minds about how the action will play out. Some see it as a move to cash in on Apple’s iPhone success. Others view it as a preemptory move against a possible infringement suit from Apple aimed at Nokia’s own multitouch handsets.
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Kara Visits Web 2.0 Summit: Day 1

in News, October 18, 2007 at 9:20 am PT