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Nokia’s smartphone problem

Nokia may still dominate the overall cell phone market, but a steady slide in its smartphone market share could threaten the company’s long-term standing. On Thursday Nokia announced third-quarter earnings that, despite an unexpected loss of $832 million in its telecommunications equipment unit, beat expectations. The company managed to ship about 3 million more handsets than analysts had expected. But …

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With outage, Sidekick service loses its footing

A prolonged outage for users of T-Mobile’s Sidekick device gets even worse as Microsoft’s Danger unit says that their lost Sidekick data may be gone forever. Deaf users sound offon Sidekick outage Recent problems with the smartphone, long popular in the deaf community, leave many users frustrated and sizing up alternatives. (Posted in Beyond Binary by Ina Fried) October 15, …

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