Nokia's X phone line: What will Microsoft do with it?

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	Nokia's X phone line: What will Microsoft do with it? Computerworld asked three analysts at Mobile World Congress whether Microsoft will keep Nokia's X phones and got three decidedly different answers. Read More WEBCAST: SAP SAP IT Transformation Forum On March 6, join us in an exclusive live event featuring Nolan Bushnell, a technology pioneer, entrepreneur, and scientist who's often cited as the father of the video game industry. This event will feature topics on laying the foundations for mobile, Big Data, and cloud applications that business teams require to stay competitive. Learn more In this Issue SanDisk unleashes world's first 128GB microSD card Mozilla shows $25 Firefox OS-based smartphone running Spreadtrum chips Google phone project could transform smartphones Lessons from Nokia's bow to Android should resonate with smaller OS providers Sony launches two new Android smartphones and the Xperia Z2 tablet Nokia hopes Android and Microsoft will help sell low-end smartphones Sony's $130 SmartBand to combine fitness, entertainment, life experiences Intel catches up with Apple on 64-bit smartphone chips Qualcomm overtakes Apple with eight-core, 64-bit mobile processor HP unveils first 64-bit Windows 8.1 tablets with Intel Atom New Lenovo S-series smartphones do not have LTE Lenovo updates Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ processor, screen New smartphone OS flags will fly at Mobile World Congress $130B later, Verizon Wireless is now just 'Verizon' Richi Jennings: Nokia uses F-word in Android X-citement WEBCAST: VMware Extending Your Data Center with the New vCloud Hybrid Attend this webcast and learn how to: - Create a new virtual machine from the cloud portal - Connect your existing vSphere environment to vCloud Hybrid Service - Seamlessly migrate existing workloads to vCloud Hybrid Service Learn more! SanDisk unleashes world's first 128GB microSD card Almost 10 years after the microSD card format was introduced with 2GB of storage, SanDisk unveiled a new model of the popular removable storage card with more than 60 times that original capacity. Read More Mozilla shows $25 Firefox OS-based smartphone running Spreadtrum chips Mozilla and China-based chip maker Spreadtrum on Sunday unveiled a chipset designed for $25 smartphones running the open source Firefox operating system. Read More Google phone project could transform smartphones Google unveiled what is almost certainly the most interesting phone of the year. It's part of Project Tango. Read More Lessons from Nokia's bow to Android should resonate with smaller OS providers Nokia's three new Android smartphones -- the X, X+ and XL -- could prove to be the biggest lesson for the smartphone industry at the 2014 Mobile World Congress. Read More Sony launches two new Android smartphones and the Xperia Z2 tablet Sony announced a slim, light and waterproof Android-based Xperia Z2 tablet and two new Xperia smartphones at the launch of Mobile World Congress here. Read More Nokia hopes Android and Microsoft will help sell low-end smartphones In a bid to go after the low-end smartphone segment, Nokia is using Android with its own user interface and Microsoft services on the X, X+ and XL devices. Read More Sony's $130 SmartBand to combine fitness, entertainment, life experiences Sony made its mark in entertainment technology and is taking that tradition to wearables with its new SmartBand wrist-wearable device. Read More WHITE PAPER: Kaspersky Why Complexity is IT Security's Worst Enemy This white paper looks at the real challenges faced by organizations, and what new IT security threats and issues have arisen as a result. Increasingly, anti-malware alone is not enough, so this white paper investigates what new IT security approach is required to effectively respond to the changing threat landscape and new ways of working. Learn More Intel catches up with Apple on 64-bit smartphone chips Intel has finally caught up with Apple with its new 64-bit Atom chips, which should be in Android smartphones and tablets starting as early as the second quarter this year. Read More Qualcomm overtakes Apple with eight-core, 64-bit mobile processor Qualcomm has leaped ahead of Apple in 64-bit mobile chip development with its first eight-core Snapdragon 615 chip for mobile devices, which has integrated LTE and 4K video rendering capabilities. Read More HP unveils first 64-bit Windows 8.1 tablets with Intel Atom After months of waiting, some of the first 64-bit tablets with Windows 8.1 and Intel's Bay Trail chips were announced by Hewlett-Packard. Read More New Lenovo S-series smartphones do not have LTE Lenovo's S-series smartphones announced at Mobile World Congress have screen sizes from 4.7 inches to 5.3 inches, but none of them have LTE. Read More Lenovo updates Yoga Tablet 10 HD+ processor, screen Lenovo's first Yoga tablet, introduced late last year, met with bad reviews, so the company hopes the second time's a charm with the Yoga Tablet 10 HD+. Read More New smartphone OS flags will fly at Mobile World Congress Smartphone OS entrants hoping to chip away at the dominance of Android and iOS are heading to Barcelona for Mobile World Congress, facing a landscape that has changed since last year's show. Read More $130B later, Verizon Wireless is now just 'Verizon' Verizon Communications now owns its mobile business outright after closing its acquisition of Vodafone Group's 45% stake in Verizon Wireless. Read More Richi Jennings: Nokia uses F-word in Android X-citement In Nokia's last hurrah before Microsoft takes over, it unveiled THREE Android-based phones. At Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, the Nokia X series is raising eyebrows, even though it's been widely leaked for months. In IT Blogwatch, bloggers theorize and aggrandize. Read More
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