Nokia posted its financial results for the company's third fiscal quarter of 2011, pulling in revenue of 8.98 billion euros, or about $12.4 billion. That's down 13 percent year-over-year and is 3 percent lower than the previous quarter. Even still, the numbers came out of ahead of what analysts were expecting as Nokia clings to relevancy in its run up to Windows Phone 7.
Nokia has bet its future on Windows Phone 7, but before CEO Steven Elop has a chance to prove that he isn’t just jumping from one burning platform to the next, he still has several challenges to overcome. Chief among them is a massive workforce that up until now, the company has maintained despite quarter after quarter of market share losses. Analysts knew Nokia couldn’t keep it up forever, and were not surprised to hear that the company is 
Job security is a tough thing to come by these days at Nokia. As part of yet another major restructuring effort, the world's largest handset maker is handing out pink slips to 3,500 employees and closing one of its shops in Romania. The latest round of job cuts are on top of the 4,000 Nokia announced back in April.
For whatever reason, Samsung is a company that keeps coming up whenever there's speculation about an acquisition. There was chatter that Samsung might be interested in Hewlett-Packard's PC business, followed by rumors that it will chase HP's webOS instead, of which the OEM 
Nokia is cleaning egg off its face after losing developer records to an SQL Injection attack, prompting the mobile phone maker to shutter its developer discussion forum ahead of its Windows Phone 7 launch. Hackers were able to access a database table filled with email addresses and, in some cases, birthdates and other information included in their public profile.
Manual labor is dead. You know how we know? Foxconn announced today that it would start phasing out its rampant hiring, and 
Intel's taken some shots to the ribs recently. Several tablets have gone with ARM-based chipsets rather than Intel's old standby, x86. Then, Nokia left Intel at the Medfield processor altar, running off into the sunset with Windows 7 phones instead. So what's a down-on-its-luck processor manufacturer to do?
Google Maps is awesome. With it, not only can you figure out which pizza place is closest to your house, you can also get the joint's phone number and even see what the place looks like (as long as that pizza joint is not also a 
Now's not a particularly good time to be working for Nokia, not unless you can handle the stress of wondering if you'll still have a job once the company eliminates 12 percent of its workers. As part of a new strategy to "align its global workforce and consolidate site operations," Nokia said it plans to hand out about 7,000 pink slips, including laying off 3,000 staff and transferring 3,000 more to Accenture, which will take over Nokia's legacy Symbian software division.
Rovio, the Finnish developer of the Angry Birds mobile game franchise has announced a new installment of the popular bird launching game. Before you get your hopes up, the new Angry Birds Magic will only be available on Nokia phones running the newest "Anna" update, and will require users to interact with NFC tags to unlock levels.
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