Talking Windows 8, Sprint’s iPhone and Much More on Tech News Today

Ina visits Tech News Today to recap several recent stories, including layoffs at Nokia, the coming preview version of Windows 8, and the impact of the iPhone’s arrival on Sprint’s bottom line.
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Nokia: And Plan C Is We End Up Like RIM

“Plan B is that Plan A must succeed.”
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Nokia to Cut 4,000 Manufacturing Jobs as It Shifts Production Work

The Finnish cellphone maker plans to reduce the amount of work done at plants in Hungary, Mexico and Salo, Finland.
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What, Nokia Chairman Worry?

Nokia’s going through a challenging transition, but according to Jorma Ollila, it has laid the foundation it needs to regain smartphone leadership.
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World’s Top Three Phone Makers: Nokia, Samsung and Apple

Steve Jobs once said Apple hoped to claim 1 percent of the world’s mobile phone market. Today, it’s got more than 8 percent.
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Yet Another Departure From HP’s webOS Business

Brian Hernacki, chief architect of HP’s webOS business, is just the latest from that group to head for the exits.
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Microsoft’s Millions Help Cushion Nokia’s Windows Phone Transition

Redmond paid Nokia $250 million in “platform support payments,” the first of many such infusions that should help ease what is clearly a painful transition.
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Nokia Sells a Million Windows Phones, but Symbian Dropping Faster Than Expected

It remains to be seen if Nokia can grow its Windows Phone business faster than its Symbian business tails off.
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Nokia Posts Huge Loss

Finland’s Nokia Corp., the world’s largest mobile-phone maker by volume, Thursday posted its third consecutive quarterly net loss, as handset sales dropped 29 percent on an annual basis.

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Now if Only Nokia Could Sell 1.5 Billion Windows Phones

A historic milestone for Nokia: The Finnish mobile phone maker today said that it had sold 1.5 billion of its Series 40 handsets since first introducing the device in 1999. Nokia estimates that there are currently 675 million active S40 users globally, and claims it sells about a dozen S40 devices each second.