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Nokia will cut thousands of jobs related to phone manufacturing, as it shifts production from Europe to Asia by the end of 2012. - Nokia will shift phone production from Europe to Asia by the end of 2012, a move that will result in 4,000 job cuts. The cuts will occur at three factories in Finland, Mexico and Hungary. On its Website, Nokia suggested it would provide financial support and assistance with local re-employment....

LG Electronics has a 5-inch LG Optimus VU "phablet" planned, possibly for a Feb. 21 release. Like Samsung, LG is betting the time is right for the 5-inch tablet-phone. - LG Electronics has released a teaser video showing off the sharp, clean lines of what it's calling the LG Optimus VU, a quot;phablet quot; with a 4:3 aspect ratio and a 5-inch display, on the diagonal. A photo of the device of the Japanese site Datacider shows a date stamp on the device of Feb...

NGINX delivers commercial support for the popular open-source NGINX Web server. - NGINX, pronounced “Engine-X,” has announced commercial support options for companies using its open-source Web server in production. This is the first commercial offering of Nginx Inc., which was founded in July 2011 and launched in October. The company is offering three technical-support packa...

Xamarins new MonoTouch 5.2 speeds up and simplifies iPhone and iPad application development. - Xamarin, a maker of development software for building cross-platform mobile apps for phones and tablets, has announced MonoTouch 5.2, a new version of its software for developing iPhone and iPad apps. MonoTouch 5.2 delivers new capabilities to improve application performance, streamline the dev...

Amazon's popular Kindle Fire is missing in action outside the U.S., angering consumers in Canada and the U.K. and costing the company some money. - As Android tablets go, Amazon's (NASDAQ:AMZN) Kindle Fire is absolutely killing it in the U.S., where industry analysts estimate the e-commerce company sold 4 million to 6 million of the 7-inch slates at $199 a pop for the holiday quarter. Yet each report of the Kindle Fire's success adds some...

Sprint reported a fourth-quarter loss, but also the end to a four-year period of recovery. The next few years will instead be about growth and of course the iPhone and LTE. - Sprint, during its first full quarter with the Apple iPhone, reported a net loss of $1.3 billion and a diluted loss of 43 cents per share during the fourth quarter of 2011. Which was the bad news. The good news was that Sprint, which announced its fourth-quarter earnings Feb. 8, sold 1.8 millio...

While business owners indicate plans to hire in the next 12 months, they demonstrate some concern around hiring today. - Americas small business owners are the most optimistic since July 2008, according to the latest findings from the Wells Fargo/Gallup Small Business Index survey for the period Jan. 9-13, 2012. The Index now stands at positive 15 for January, compared to minus 3 in October and following two previous ...

Verizon and Health Evolution Partners are looking to enable development in real-time care coordination and mobile data services. - Health care IT investor Health Evolution Partners and Verizon Enterprise Solutions are collaborating to foster innovation in mobile health, telemedicine and health data management. The partnership, which both companies announced Feb. 6, will leverage Verizon's IT infrastructure to spur innovation in...

Adobe has taken another step to secure Windows users from malicious Flash code by releasing a beta plug-in of Flash Player with a built-in sandbox for Firefox. - Two of the three major Web browsers now offer some form of Flash Player with built-in sandbox protection. Internet Explorer is not one of them. Adobe has been modifying its popular Flash Player to include the sandbox technology that would block malicious code before executing. Adobe on Feb. 6 r...

Updated: Google is preparing its Chrome Screenwise program to gain more information about Web surfers. The move comes as concerns over the company's privacy policy changes abound. - Updated: Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) is willing to pay online surfers to browse the Web and share data about their travels with the search-engine giant. The company has begun soliciting users for its Screenwise program, in which it will pay Chrome users in Amazon gift cards to surf Websites. Users mu...

A CPPI report highlights the fact that cloud computing and mobile technologies have lowered the cost of entry for smaller firms. - Small businesses have the power to revive the nations economy; they just need the opportunity, technology and the right government policies to help them succeed, according to a report from the Center for Public Policy Innovation (CPPI) and the Digital Dialogue Forum (DDF). The report also notes smal...

SSL Inspector allows organizations to identify threats hidden within SSL-encrypted communications. - Fidelis Security Systems, a specialist in network visibility, analysis and control solutions, announced a cloud-security solution designed to provide visibility and control to decrease risks associated with using software as a service (SaaS). The solution is deployed at the enterprise network ed...

Google announced the launch of a new Google+ Developers page where developers can go to get and share information about developing for the Google+ platform. - Google has launched a new Google+ Developers page to help developers stay abreast of all the latest Google+ platform news, events, community and more. With Google+ gaining users every day up to 90 million at last count the companys social platform becomes a much more attractive target for dev...

Apple and Google Android are battling for smartphone market superiority. Microsoft's Windows Phone can learn something from each rival. - How can Windows Phone claim a bigger chunk of the smartphone market? Since Microsoft released the first iteration of Windows Phone in late 2010, pundits and analysts of all stripes have picked over the best way to answer that question. For Microsoft itself, of course, any answer is more than pu...

Google launches Chrome for Android, a mobile version of the popular, speedy Web browser used by more than 200 million people worldwide. It's in beta and only available for Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. - Google (NASDAQ:GOOG) Feb. 7 launched a beta of Chrome for Android, a mobile version of the popular browser that is used by more than 200 million people worldwide on the desktop. The catch is that it is currently only available for smartphones and tablets based on the latest Android 4.0 Ice Cr...

NEWS ANALYSIS: The long-rumored Apple television could be a sales hit in the coming years. And in the process, it might hurt Google and Android. - The amount of talk surrounding the Apple television has hit a tipping point. Almost every day, there is a new rumor that crops up about a possible feature, a launch date, pricing and more. There appears to be no end to the speculation in sight, and Apple, as it has done in the past, has relished ...

EMC's first PCIe NAND flash card puts a measure of storage directly into any server for speeding up high-transaction applications. - Storage, security and virtualization giant EMC had never encroached on the server business in the past, but it's now literally getting inside them, thanks to a new product it introduced Feb. 6. Completing a promise it made at EMC world in May 2011, EMC unveiled its first PCIe NAND flash card that ...

IBM announced enhancements to its XIV Storage System Gen3, including a new performance-boosting solid-state-drive (SSD) caching option, and a new app to monitor their XIV storage from their iPhone. - IBM has announced several enhancements to its XIV Storage System Gen3, including a new solid-state-drive (SSD) caching option that can increase system performance by up to three times, and a new Apple iPhone app that lets users monitor their XIV storage environment from virtually anywhere. The ...

RIM's renewed push for developers is basically an attempt to get them onboard with the upcoming BlackBerry 10. - Research In Motions BlackBerry DevCon Europe conference, which started Feb. 7 in Amsterdam, placed third-party developers front and center. Highlighting what he called RIMs “commitment to our development community,” RIM CEO Thorsten Heins told the developer audience gathered for his Feb. 7 key...

IBM has helped design and build a 900,000 square foot data center in India for Tulip Telecom. The companies say it is the largest data center in India. - IBM has announced that it has worked with Tulip Telecom to design and help build the largest data center facility in India to deliver new cloud and networking services. Tulip Telecom is a leading telecommunications network and data service provider in India. Its services reach more than 2,000...