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A dose
of IT
In fight against iPhone, Nokia hires Corporate
bITs
email: Banks
Search is passé, a CEO from another Apple-hit giant
KEVIN J. O’BRIEN Apple and Google in mobile
mull options
social media is in BERILN
Sept. 12: Nokia, the leading
applications.
“The time is right to accel-
erate the company’s renew-
maker of mobile phones, al; to bring in new executive
KAPIL KHANDELWAL sleeply search engines replaced its chief executive, leadership with different
are being upstaged by Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, on skills and strengths in order
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ime spent on Q&A and intelligent Friday with the head of to drive company success,”
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socializing on information discovery Microsoft’s business unit in Mr Ollila said Friday in a PMorgan Chase & Co
Facebook has over- tools. While in India, the a bid to turn around the statement. and UBS are consider-
taken searching with current generation of company’s struggling smart- “The Nokia board believes ing allowing employ-
Google in the internet's doctors is not Facebook phone lineup and stop a that Stephen has the right ees to access corporate
history for the first time. or Twitter friendly or decline in American market industry experience and email using Apple iPhones
With the introduction of savvy, the future genera- share. leadership skills to realize or other alternatives to their
3G services in India, tion of doctors is expect- Nokia said it had appoint- the full potential of Nokia,” standard-issue Research in
Facebook, Twitter and ed to fire up this segment ed Stephen Elop, a 46-year- he added. Motion BlackBerry.
other social networking of applications in India. old native of Ancaster, Mr Kallasvuo, who had A switch by these banks
websites have added a Thirdly, buying health- Ontario, to succeed Mr served as Nokia’s chief would be a further blow for
new dimension to social care would now be laced Kallasvuo, who has been at operating officer and finan- Canada's RIM, whose
interactions and changed with checkin and loca- Nokia for 30 years and con- cial officer, was named to shares have slumped
the way we manage our tion-based services to tinues as chairman of Nokia head the company in 2006. recently after certain coun-
relationships, even in intersect with the health Siemens Networks. Nokia said he would receive tries have threatened to ban
theway we would man- conditions. As mobility Analysts speculated that 4.6 million euros ($5.8 mil- the Blackberry whose
age our health needs and and migrant population the appointment of Mr. lion) in severance and bonus design does not allow them
our relationship with our in India increases across Elop, who has run payments, plus 100,000 to monitor phone traffic.
doctors. the metros, we will wit- Microsoft’s business soft- Stephen Elop, (left) and Jorma Ollila, Nokia's chairman, at a news conference shares of Nokia, worth US bank JPMorgan is
The relationship ness a boom in such serv- ware unit, the company’s announcing Mr Elop’s appointment. 811,000 euros. testing the security of
between a doctor and his ices. In the US, there are largest division, since Janu- Mr Elop is an engineer and iPhones and smartphones
or her patients is a number of services on ary 2008, might signal clos- Apple — now there’s a 90 percent of all mobile to press and investor dissat- holds a degree in computer that use Google Inc's
extremely important to the social media that pro- er cooperation between thought.” phones in the United States. isfaction,” said Pete Cun- engineering and manage- Android operating system,
the overall healthcare vide the rating of the Nokia and Microsoft, which Nokia’s share price has Nokia has also had diffi- ningham, an analyst at ment from McMaster Uni- a person familiar with the
process. It is important has also struggled in mobile declined more than half culty fending off the chal- Canalys. versity in Hamilton, tests said. It is not yet cer-
that consumers (patients) The doctor - software. since Apple introduced its lenge from Asian rivals like Gartner, another market Ontario. Before working at tain that the second-largest
have a certain level of It was the first time Nokia iPhone in 2007, as it failed Samsung, LG and HTC, as consulting firm, issued a Microsoft, he was chief US bank by assets would
trust in their healthcare patient had tapped a non-Finn to to come up with a com- well as Google, the search report Friday that predicted executive of Macromedia, a allow employees to switch
providers. I mean, this relationship will serve as its president and pelling response to what is engine leader that created Symbian would be nearly software maker later to other devices, that per-
person is giving me chief executive. now the world’s fastest-sell- the Android operating sys- overtaken by Android in acquired by Adobe, and son added.
advice, prescribing medi- change in the “Microsoft has many of ing smartphone. tem for smartphones. Adop- four years while Microsoft’s chief operating officer at A UBS spokesman said
cine, performing proce- coming years. the same problems as Nokia While Nokia remains the tion of Google’s Android is phone operating system Juniper Networks, a the bank is considering
dures that directly impact in terms of innovation, espe- overall leader in handsets, growing faster than Nokia’s would slide to a nearly telecommunications equip- allowing employees to use
my health. This should local general practitioner cially in the smartphone with a global market share Symbian software systems. insignificant portion of the ment maker. their iPhones for corporate
be an individual that I (GP), dentist, and so on. business,” said Nick Jones, of 38 percent, according to “Despite holding 38 per- market. At Microsoft, he oversaw email.
would literally trust my We would also see such an analyst with the research Canalys, a British research cent market share of the In announcing the change, the information worker, JPMorgan declined to
life with. There are five services mushroom. firm Gartner in London. firm, its share of the Ameri- smartphone market, Nokia’s the chairman of Nokia’s business solutions and uni- comment.
key trends that can use Fourthly, as more Indi- “Having an ex-Microsoft can market has stagnated at failure to compete with the board, Jorma Ollila, said Mr fied communications The banks are among
social media to increase an consumers purchase person running Nokia sug- less than 10 percent. The iPhone and high-tier Elop would accelerate the groups, which are responsi- major institutions consid-
the value of healthcare more and more smart gests lots of interesting pos- company has failed to build Android devices, combined transformation of Nokia ble for the Microsoft Office ering a switch from the
and redefine such doctor phones and mobile phone sibilities for the future. profitable relationships with with its lack of progress in from a hardware company to system of programs, servers once-iconic BlackBerry.
- consumer relationships. technology heads in the Nokia plus Microsoft ally- the four major phone opera- gaining significant traction one focused on software and software-based The European Union
Firstly, health informa- direction of enabling ing to fight Google and tors, which sell more than in the United States, has led capable of competing with services. — NYT Commission last month
tion scanning. As consumerism, including rejected the BlackBerry in
grandiose as it may health, its time before the favor of the iPhone and
sound, smart phone own-
ers have the world at their
fingertips and advances
in mobile barcode scan-
old fashioned loyalty,
rewards and club card
programs head to the
social media mobile plat-
By 2012, smartphones as powerful as laptops HTC smartphones amid
concerns over BlackBerry
security.
Unlike rivals Nokia and
ning technology allow forms. Lastly, consuming ASHLEE VANCE cores and be able to handle and sell them to Web com- Apple, RIM controls its
for building, populating most entertainment NEW YORK things as complex as run- panies. The main thrust own networks, which han-
and exchanging the per- media is an inherently ning virtualization software. behind Smooth-Stone is that dle encrypted messages
sonal health diary with social experience. Radio Sept. 12: With its latest People could theoretically ARM chips have grown up through server centers in
the doctors and nurses Indigo and many other product release, the chip use the virtualization soft- enough to handle basic serv- Canada and Britain.
and ultimately a social services have cropped up designer ARM may find it ware to give their phones er tasks like cranking out British bank Standard
experience around health to refine the social expe- tough to maintain its tradi- different personalities, like a Web pages and can do so at Chartered said earlier this
management and experi- rience through entertain- tion of understated British work version with added a lower cost while consum- year it was giving its staff
ence sharing. These serv- ment checkins or the live talking points. It would security and a personal one ing less power than server the option to replace the
ices would be very useful tweeting of surgical pro- seem that some pomp and with entertainment applica- chips from Intel. Blackberry with the
in India particularly for cedures with peers, circumstance has been put tions. ARM’s data center strate- iPhone, a move that could
emergency response patients family or bud- on order. More importantly for gy more or less mimics eventually result in thou-
services when the health ding medical students or ARM’s executives left ARM’s long-term future, Intel’s strategy of yore. Intel sands of bankers switch-
information is not easily the buddy system for their Cambridge confines the Eagle designs should crushed the custom chip ing. — Reuters
accessible due to frag- smoking or alcohol ces- this week and came to Sili- make the company more businesses of companies
mented healthcare infra-
structure and providers.
sation or other diseases.
While the whole poten-
con Valley to show off
Eagle, the next version of
competitive in previously
untapped markets, like net-
like Compaq,
Microsystems, IBM and
Sun
Google’s
Secondly, while a tial for the social media the company’s top-of-the- working equipment and Hewlett-Packard with
whopping 93% of e- in healthcare has a few line chip design. The Eagle computer servers. lower-cost, speedy chips. Android will
patients around the world issues around privacy, products should end up in The upcoming chips will Today, power consumption
and in India have used
health portals for health
ethical issues and lack of
formality, lets just hope
most of the world’s smart-
phones and a host of other
suming hardly any power.
ARM licenses its designs
dent of technology and sys-
tems at ARM, noted that
have one to eight cores, up
from one to two cores today,
has become as important as
horsepower to many compa-
soon be No.2
information they needed that our regulators and hand-held devices. They’ll to the likes of Samsung, TI, consumers could expect to meaning they can handle nies with large Web pres-
around their condition. regulatory agencies don't run about five times faster Qualcomm and Nvidia, and see smartphones in 2012 more software jobs at a ences, and so ARM thinks it
Now the previously turn into party poopers! than today’s high-end ARM it tends to take these compa- that have about the same time. can undercut Intel on price
chips and handle meaty stuff nies a couple of years to performance as a current Smooth-Stone, a start-up and power.
Kapil Khandelwal is the director like movies and pictures far bring out fresh products business laptop. The fastest based in Austin, Texas, has Close to 100 percent of the
and CEO of Makven Capital. better than current smart- based on the new designs. phones at that time will have revealed plans to make serv- cellphones on the market
phone chips, while still con- Pete Hutton, a vice presi- four 2.5-gigahertz processor er versions of the ARM chip run on ARM chips. — NYT
E-readers are going colour, Amazon unimpressed G oogle Inc's Android
software
become the world's
second most popular oper-
will
ANNE EISENBERG quickly — to 11 million in The popularity of with Kindle. “We’ve seen E an improved ink formulation ating system for cell
2010, from 5 million in Ink color displays in the lab that yields higher contrast, phones this year, leapfrog-
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2009, she said, with 15 mil- the Apple iPad and they aren’t ready,” he said; the color display ging rival offerings from
Sept. 12: Black and White lion predicted for 2011. has shaken up Stephanie Mantello, a senior consumes no more power Microsoft Corp, Research
movies have their film noir But the popularity of the the market public relations manager for than previous monochro- in Motion and Apple Inc,
appeal, yet it’s glowing Apple iPad, on which peo- Kindle at Amazon.com, matic displays. according to a new report.
color that rules on most con- ple can read books, surf the forcing E-reader wrote in an e-mail. Reflective color displays By 2014 Android will
sumer displays these days, Internet, watch videos and makers to Ken Werner of Nutmeg from Qualcomm will also be account for nearly 30 per-
with one exception: the enjoy thousands of apps — Consultants in Norwalk, on the market soon, said Jim cent of all cell phone oper-
pages of e-book readers. all in full color — has shak- innovate, use new Conn., and a specialist in the Cathey, vice president for ating system sales, accord-
There, color is still supplied en up the market. “It’s technologies and display industry, says that he business development at the ing to research firm Gart-
the old-fashioned way — forced e-book reader manu- has viewed the E Ink proto- Taiwan office of Qualcomm ner, putting it in position to
not by filtered pixels, but by facturers to innovate,” said offer options types and that their reflec- MEMS Technologies, based challenge Nokia Corp's
readers’ imaginations. Paul Semenza, a senior vice such as versions tive color technology is in San Diego. The compa- Symbian software, which
Now that stronghold of president for DisplaySearch, worthwhile. ny’s color technology, called has reigned as the top
austere black letters is crum- an industry researcher in with colour. “If you are expecting these mirasol, will be shipped to mobile operating system
bling. “We expect compa- Santa Clara, Calif. reflective color panels to device makers this quarter, for years.
nies to market color e-book Major e-reader companies tion in Cambridge, Massa- look like an LCD TV or an and should be available to Symbian will have a 30.2
readers if not by the holi- like Amazon.com, which chusetts, uses this reflective iPad, you’ll be disappoint- consumers in the first quar- percent share of the global
days, then soon after,” said sells the Kindle, and Barnes technology for its present ed,” he said. “They are not ter of next year, he said. market in 2014, according
Sarah Rotman Epps, an ana- & Noble, seller of the Nook, product — the black-and- going to have that depth and Mirasol dispenses with to Gartner, compared to
lyst specializing in con- have not announced that An E-reader from Qualcomm. The display uses reflec- white displays in the Kindle, range of color.” But, he said, color filters, as its name sug- Android's 29.6 percent.
sumer product strategies at they are offering color ver- tive instead of LCD technology. Nook and other e-readers — the displays are valuable gests — it combines the Gartner said it expects a
Forrester, the market sions, or that they are com- and will soon introduce a because of their low power Spanish words “mira,” for variety of less-expensive
research company. “And mitted to a specific technol- full-color e-reader with an ters and crystals needed to color version of the technol- consumption, thinness and look, and “sol,” for sun, into Android devices shipping
some consumers will defi- ogy for doing so. But some LCD touch screen, will be at create color. They are also ogy, said Siram Peruvemba, light weight. a play on the English word in the second half of 2010
nitely opt for them.” smaller entrants in the mar- retailers this month at a sug- hard to read outdoors, he E Ink’s vice president for E Ink will ship its color “mirrors.” The pixels in the to boost Android's growth,
Of course, even with their ket have said they will be gested price of about $200. added. global sales and marketing. displays to device makers in display use tiny, mirrorlike allowing Android to grab
current, monochromatic using liquid crystal displays, But LCD displays have Other types of displays The technology will proba- late fall, Mr. Peruvemba elements in optical cavities the No. 2 worldwide rank
text, e-book readers have just as the iPad does. disadvantages, Mr. Semenza may also find a foothold bly first be used for textbook said. Hanvon Technology, in to selectively reflect ambi- nearly two years sooner
already been strong sellers, The Literati by the Sharper said. They consume a lot of with consumers — particu- illustrations and for car- Beijing, a maker of e-book ent red, green or blue light than the firm had initially
said Vinita Jakhanwal, Image, for example, has a a power, he said, because they larly low-power, reflective toons. readers, will be one of the — much as sunlight bounces expected. The market for
director of small and medi- full-color LCD and will go need backlighting and technologies that take The E Ink color displays, first customers, he said. off a bird’s feathers. The mobile phone software has
um displays at the market on sale in October, priced at because much optical ener- advantage of ambient light which have had many proto- The color filters used in the pixels switch fast enough to become a prime battle-
researcher iSuppli. World- about $159. And Pandigital gy is lost as light passes and are easy to read when types in the last two years, displays block some of the run video, he said. ground for technology
wide shipments have risen has said that the Novel, its through the polarizers, fil- outside. The EInk Corpora- have not yet found favor light, but the loss is offset by — NYT companies. — Reuters