Ghost Sightings

ghost sightings have been recorded using a camera mobile phone Nokia N-type in the district Ketapang, West Kalimantan Indonesia.

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Nokia fired 1800 employees

Although reaching revenue and profit in the third quarter above the predictions of analysts, Nokia plans to sack 1800 employees. Steps are performed his new CEO, Stephen Elop, as part of a restructuring of the Nokia smartphone business.

Nokia said the restructuring would accelerate the transformation and enhance organizational effectiveness in product development for Symbian-based smartphones to be more competitive than its competitors. Termination of employment (FLE) is recognized as an effort to boost the development of Symbian to compete with Apple iPhone, Blackberry, and Android.

Although quite a lot, the number of employees will be laid off only a small portion rather than the current number of Nokia employees. The number of Nokia employees are now approximately 131,000 people with 66,000 of them in the joint venture company Nokia Siemens Networks.

Step Elop surprising considering he was the first CEO of Nokia that is not from Finland. Former senior Microsoft executive who came from Canada that replaces Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo who resigned since September 10. Appointment Elop analysts assessed the adjustment reflects the dominance of Nokia against the U.S. and Canada in the evolution of the smart phone business.

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Symbian Vs Android

Symbian is the smart phone operating system that now rules the world. Until February 2010, the Symbian platform has been developed more than 10 years and has been buried in more than 330 million devices worldwide.

The rate on Symbian smart phones are not overtaken by other operating systems because the power of the operating system that allows outside developers to build applications on Symbian phones.

So, thousands of applications were born free and paid software developers from throughout the world. This is what makes the Symbian mobile phone and content-rich Symbian users are individuals who like to create new innovations.

Although there are estimates Android operating system will be number two on the bottom Symbian in 2013, Symbian was still become a stable force. Moreover, according to Motorola officials promised, in 2010, the Symbian Foundation has released the full operating system as open code.

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Symbian Identical with the Nokia

Symbian Foundation, the institution in charge of taking care of the preparation to open source Symbian, is a nonprofit organization that was announced June 24, 2008. Nokia took Sony Ericsson, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, AT & T, LG Electronics, Samsung Electronics, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments, Vodafone, and several rows of another brand to use Symbian.

Besides funding, Siemens to contribute Symbian OS and S60 for Symbian Foundation. Sony Ericsson and Motorola did not want to lose, they donate their mainstay code, which is UIQ. NTT DoCoMo to contribute MOAP (S).

With that capital, the future of the Symbian Foundation should be more hit the market. Speculation is rampant that the Symbian alliance to confront Android.

However, in a chance, Bob Iannucci who was then serving Senior Vice President Chief Technology Officer of Siemens argued that presumption. "All along we are in this business. So this is not true that our response to Android, "he said.

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Symbian OS Number One on The World

Research In Motion (RIM) with her Blackberry cell phone may be popular in 2009. So does Apple's iPhone. However, from the operating system (OS) smart phones, Symbian remains the number one.

"Smartphone sales soaring in the fourth quarter of 2009, with 53.8 million units, up by 41.4 percent in the same period in 2008," said Carolina Milanesi, Research Director, Gartner.

Milanesi also commented that the vendors who focus on land smartphones like Apple and Research in Motion reached great success compared to other mobile vendors, they controlled 14.4% and 19.9% of the world smartphone market

Data-selling smartphone OS 2009 was issued by the research institute Gartner. According to Gartner, although down 5.4%, Symbian OS is still the most popular with 46.9% market share.

Apparently, the movement to open source Symbian and introduces strategies the Symbian^3 in the first quarter of 2010 was the right step.

While on the other hand, Android OS is seen as the fastest growing. In 2008, Android has only 0.5% market share and are now straight to number 3.9%.

Meanwhile, the iPhone also experienced a drastic increase from 8.2% to 14.4%. With the surge, the iPhone is now in third place after Symbian and RIM.

Here are Gartner's latest data, released in February 2010:

1. Symbian - 46.9%
2. RIM - 19.9%
3. iPhone OS - 14.4%
4. Windows Mobile - 8.7%
5. Linux - 4.7%
6. Android - 3.9%
7. WebOS - 0.7%
8. Other OS - 0.6%
   

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Mainstay Nokia Symbian 3.0

As one of the largest mobile phone vendor, Nokia is not interested in using Google's Android platform made in the development of mobile products. Nokia did not feel threatened by the rising popularity of Android for the overall market share is still small practically.

Nokia is still going to use Symbian as a platform for its products. Currently Symbian 3.0 will be released with multitasking capabilities, improved graphics, faster access to the widget-based content, including magnification with a pinch to zoom.

On the other hand, Nokia is more interested in using Linux. Recently, in the event Mobile World Congress (MWC) in Barcelona, Spain, Nokia and Intel have agreed to integrate the development of Linux-based platform that previously developed individual, namely Intel and Nokia Maemo Moblin, became MeeGo.

MeeGo forward will be a platform for computing products Nokia, including tablets and netbooks. While Symbian will be focused on the development of smartphones.

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