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Nokia Abandoning Symbian Name: Just "Belle" Now

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2011 has been a year of transition for Nokia, and saw the company introduce its first Windows Phone handsets. As we get ready to move into 2012, Nokia is embracing its new position in the smartphone ecosystem. To some extent, that means letting go of the past, and to that end, Nokia has revealed that it will be dropping the Symbian name from its smartphones. 

The current release of the operating system has been known as Symbian Belle, which is now in the process of replacing Symbian Anna on older hardware. From here on out, though, it's just going to be Belle. 

It remains to be seen how Nokia will deal with naming conventions for future OS updates. We've heard rumors about Symbian Carla and Donnaarriving further down the road. If "Belle" is to be the base name for the platform, would these be released along the lines of "Belle Carla" or maybe "Belle 2.0"? Or, would Nokia be so bold as to completely rename the platform for each major release? 

Besides revealing the new name for the operating system, Nokia's clarified its plans for delivering the Belle update to Anna phones. While we were hoping for a release before the end of the year, the last news we heard had things on-hold until 2012. The wait seems to keep getting longer, as today's news informs us we're not just waiting until next year, but will have to wait until February at the earliest. 

The value of Google’s Firefox browser deal

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The deal basically means that Google remains the default search engine built-in to the Firefox Web browser, a privilege for which Google pays Mozilla an unspecified fee.

Since Google signed the original deal in 2004, the search giant has introduced its own Web browser, dubbed Google Chrome. And with Chrome now used by one in four Web surfers, speculation had grown that Google might not renew the Firefox licensing deal, depriving the non-profit Mozilla of a vital revenue source (according to AllThingsD, which broke the news of Tuesday’s deal renewal, Google contributed 84 percent of Mozilla’s $123 million in 2010 revenue).

The value of the current Google deal with Mozilla is not being disclosed. Whatever the amount is though, it’s safe to say that it represents pocket change to Google, which has $43 billion in cash and short term securities on its balance sheet.

And with Google facing antitrust scrutiny for a variety of business practices, spending a little money to keep a rival browser alive has important PR value.

True, Google doesn’t dominate the Web browser market the way it does the search market. But Chrome’s market share is growing fast (in September 2009, it had a scant 2.8 percent share). And given the importance of the Web browser as the gateway to online information, Google’s newfound status as a browser superpower could provide ammunition to its critics going forward, especially if the browser market were to suddenly consist of only two major players, i.e. Google and Microsoft.

Of course, there’s no guarantee that Firefox would have disappeared had Google not renewed the deal – Microsoft might well have swooped in as Firefox’s new benefactor, becoming the default Firefox search provider in the process.

Still, in some ways Google’s Mozilla deal has echoes of a past move by another tech giant that once faced its own antitrust scrutiny: in 1997 Microsoft invested $150 million in Apple, a move that kept the then-struggling Mac maker alive to see another day and seemed designed to soften the criticisms about Microsoft’s PC market dominance.

A year later though, the U.S. government went on to sue Microsoft for antitrust violations.

Saudi Prince Alwaleed buys Twitter stake

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Alwaleed, a nephew of Saudi Arabia's king estimated by Forbes magazine in March to have a fortune of $19.6 billion, already owns a 7 percent stake in News Corp and plans to start a cable news channel.

The purchase is remarkable because Twitter was a key means of communication for protesters in the Arab Spring revolts this year, violence that threatened Saudi Arabia until the kingdom unveiled a populist $130 billion social spending package.

The Twitter stake, bought jointly by Alwaleed and his Kingdom Holding Co investment firm, resulted from "months of negotiations," Kingdom said.

Twitter chief executive Dick Costolo valued the company at $8 billion in October, according to media reports, which would peg the size of Alwaleed's investment at just under 4 pct.

Twitter, which allows people to send 140-character messages, or Tweets, to groups of followers, is one of the Internet's most popular social networking services, along with Facebook and Zynga.

Bernhard Warner, co-founder of analysis and advisory firm Social Media Influence, said: "The Arab world, of course, knows full well the value of Twitter. In the past year, it has been a force in politics, in regime change, so there is not a single person in that region in a position of influence who is not following the increasing power of Twitter.

"(Alwaleed) must see Twitter as something that is going to be a really powerful broadcast channel," he said, adding the Saudi had got into the Internet boom belatedly, with mixed results, and appeared to be "kind of late" to the game again.

Investors in Saudi Arabia were more bullish, sending shares in Kingdom up 5.7 percent to 8.30 riyals at the close.

"One of the few sectors to record significant revenue gains in the last three years has been technology, which is why Kingdom would see Twitter as a good addition to its diversified portfolio," said Hesham Tuffaha, head of asset management at Bakheet Investment Group in Riyadh.

Saudis are increasingly turning to satellite television, online news providers and social networking to stay abreast of world events. The world's No. 1 oil exporter announced a series of stricter regulations for journalists earlier this year.

Alwaleed, 26th on the Forbes list of billionaires with a sizeable stake in Citigroup, has spoken in favour of broader political participation, fair elections and effective job creation across the Arab world.

He has also been publicly supportive of management including the Murdochs at News Corp and Citigroup chief executive Vikram Pandit.

Several Arabs tweeted that they were worried Alwaleed's purchase would influence strategy negatively at Twitter.

But Abdel-Khaleq Abdullah, an Emirati political scientist, said the investment was unlikely to raise eyebrows in official circles.

"He just saw an opportunity, a money-making opportunity, nothing more, nothing less," he said. "(Internally), it's going to be viewed as a shrewd investment and I don't think we should read too much into it."

The prince's wife, Princess Ameerah al-Taweel, is a regular Tweeter and has nearly 83,000 followers on the site.

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Investors are eagerly anticipating an initial public offering from Twitter, which said in September it was in no hurry to go public. It raised $400 million in venture capital financing this summer.

It now counts more than 100 million active users who log onto the service at least once a month. Facebook, the world's largest social network has more than 750 million active users.

Internet search giant Google recently launched a social networking service dubbed Google+ which some observers say could lure users away from Twitter.

Shares in online games developer Zynga ended at a 5 percent discount to their issue price on their trading debut on Friday, and analysts said any valuation for Twitter could be misleading.

"You could put any number of zeroes behind a valuation of a private company. Before it goes public, it is almost meaningless," said Warner.

"This is a very small group of investors which has put money into this thing. That will be diluted and diluted and diluted again until it goes public. And that is when we will see what the value is. These are kind of magic numbers at the moment."

Kingdom owns a near-30 percent stake in Saudi Research and Marketing Group, which runs a range of media titles.

"Our investment in Twitter reaffirms our ability in identifying suitable opportunities to invest in promising, high-growth businesses with a global impact," Alwaleed said.

Alwaleed subscribed $500 million to last year's General Motors IPO. In August, he unveiled plans to build the world's tallest tower in Jeddah.

Apple employs a brilliant hobbyists because of his ideas

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In the news last week varied between systems iOS and Android, started by the people to transfer a personalassistant to the Siri working phone that can respond to the communications coming from the rotary phone, orGoogle News is working on that Majel will be considered a real competitor Siri.
Then move to Japan and the emergence of the first hard disk space 4 TB, then the launch of the AlienwareAurora, which stated that the most powerful games on the planet, and the usual Apple issues and try toprevent the HTC Android device in America, and for some HTC devices on the gingerbread.
And date of arrival of this ICS to some devices that are running Android, and display of these offers the usualto try to scratch the screen Lumia 800 without interest, and news of the intention to enter the Apple market,flashes, and finally the Apple hire a hobbyists because of his creativity in the development of iOS.

Microsoft goes social.

Microsoft, which owns a small part of Facebook, dipped its own toe in the online social scene this week with a low-key unveiling of its So.cl (pronounced “social”) service.

The site, which is for students to share interesting discoveries online, looks like a curious blend of Facebook and Google +.

Microsoft's so.cl

Right now it’s restricted to certain universities, and is a blend of web browsing, search (Bing, of course) and networking — including what it calls “video party”.

Developed by Microsoft’s FUSE Labs, it is “an experimental research project focused on exploring the possibilities of social search for the purpose of learning.”

In effect, Microsoft is trying to build on the fact that many students are looking for the same sorts of things online, and it gives them a way to put together and share their findings with other members interested in the same academic area.

We’ll see if its young users stick to such a lofty goal.

Microsoft says it’s not meant to replace Facebook, Twitter or LinkedIn, or to replace search engines. Indeed, you must log on with your Facebook account.

So far, Microsoft is restricting So.cl to the University of Washington, Syracuse University, New York University and a few other schools. But it says that anyone who wants to get more involved in the project should email them on Socl@microsoft.com.

Will So.cl be the first step of a greater social project under way at Microsoft? That’s something it is not willing to share.

ERIC SCHMIDT: 'Android Is Ahead Of The iPhone Now'

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Eric Schmidt irked a bunch of Apple fans at Le Web when he said, "Android is ahead of the iPhone now." (Via Stephen Shankland at CNET.)

It's a relatively tame comment if you look at it from a market share perspective. Android is ahead of the iPhone according to almost every analysis.

But, Schmidt was saying it's better based on, "unit volume, Ice Cream Sandwich, the price is lower, there are more vendors."