Saturday, September 11, 2010

This is the New CEO of Nokia


Some time ago, Nokia was looking for the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) recently. That's because the previous CEO, Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo is considered less successful in the market. Now the 'heroes' new Nokia has come up with a myriad of expectations.

Kallasvuo replacement is named Stephen Elop. Previously, he has held senior executive positions at several companies. Among them: Juniper Networks, Inc., Adobe Systems and Macromedia.

In terms of educational background, he never earned a degree in computer engineering and management from McMaster University in Hamilton, Canada.

"Board of directors Nokia believes that Stephen has the right industry experience and leadership skills to realize the full potential of Nokia. His experience in bringing a change in management has been proven and this will be a valuable asset to complete the transformation of the company," said Jorma Ollila, Chairman of the Nokia Board of Directors .

He also believed, Stephen would be able to encourage innovation and efficiency in order to provide increased value to shareholders of Nokia. Stephen himself was proud to join with the company's classmates Nokia.

"Nokia has a unique position in the global market as a big brand. The company has a deep talent that will continue to provide innovative products for the needs of consumers," said Elop.

With the inclusion of Stephen Elop, the Kallasvuo immediately resigned from his position on the board of directors of Motorola. But he will still be sitting in a chair the board of the non-executive capacity.


Nokia Shares Jump Up


While Nokia posted a 40 percent decline in operating profit in the second quarter-2010, it was speculated that there is a new boss is appointed.

CEO turnover is making news Nokia shares rose 4.97 percent to 8.12 euros on the Helsinki Stock Exchange, Finland. Elop who now serves as President of Microsoft Business Division, will take over as CEO of Nokia on 21 September 2010.

Elop shift the position Kallasvuo has 30 years working at Motorola, and served as CEO since 2006. "The board of directors thank Olli-Pekka joined Nokia has over 30 years and has been deeply involved in developing the company and its operations," said Ollila.

Windows Phone 7 will be released on October 2010


Microsoft finally confirmed the presence of Windows Phone 7 which falls on October 2010 in Europe. While in America these platforms will follow in November.

The above is disclosed by Microsoft COO Kevin Turner. "As said before, for me this is true. In October and November we'll be back playing," he said.

"This game is not over," he added. According to Turner there are now 200 million smartphones sold in the market. "If you think what happened three or five years, there will be 400-450 million smartphones," he continued.

Turner is believed that on this occasion, Microsoft will make major changes to go into competition smart phone competition. Talking about Windows phone 7 that would be present, Turner also gave a note.

"When you see this phone and the user interface in it, it's not like Microsoft's mobile phones ever released before," he said. Related to this, some mobile phone vendors introduce even the middle of some of their phones.

Samsung today introduced new products that will use Windows phone 7 named Samsung Cetus. While HTC is also rumored to be released product named HTC Mystery.

Opera Mini 5.1 Released for Windows Mobile


Two months ago, Opera has released Opera Mini 5.1 for Java platform, Android, Symbian and BlackBerry. Now turn to the Windows Mobile who tasted it. What kind of features?

Opera Mini 5.1 for Windows Mobile is bringing accelerometer resolution support and a better than previous versions. In addition, Opera Mini 5.1 also has an option as the default browser.

Similar to other platforms, applications Latest Opera for Windows Mobile is also promising a high speed when performing loading on web pages. This is all due to compression technology from Opera.

Here are some additional features in Opera Mini 5.1:

* Can be used as the default browser
G-sensor
* Supports screen rotation in HTC and Samsung mobile phones
* Supports input natively predictive
* Increase the page lay-out on HD displays
* Additional features kinetic scrolling
* Support input text expanded on all Windows Mobile phones
* Fixing a bug in the browser's stability and accuracy of rendering


Opera Mini 1.5 can be downloaded at the following link for the handset Windows Mobile 2003 SE, Windows Mobile 5.x and Windows Mobile 6.x.

Currently called the Opera Mini has more than 61 million users in the world. Indonesia also recorded as the largest user of Opera Mini in the world, according to the report "State of the Mobile Web in May 2010 from the Opera.

In Indonesia, the top five sites most accessed via Opera Mini 5.1 is facebook.com, google.com, detik.com, yahoo.com and youtube.com.