First consequences of affair Yahoo CEO

The scandal around the fake biography of the current Yahoo Chief Scott Thompson, there is now a first withdrawal. Patti Hart, a member of the Board and responsible for the appointment of Thompson, will not make a re-election.

The controversial Yahoo-chief himself, however, remains for the time being in office. About his future will be decided by the company appointed a commission of inquiry. The three-member committee will check references Thompson, is being supported here by a law firm. The report, among other things, the news agency ‘ Reuters ‘.

The Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has not yet commented publicly on the allegations

The main responsible for the appointment of Thompson’s manager Patti Hart will retire in the near future, however the company: Hart has announced that they will give up their seat on the top corporate body. Patti Hart is since 2010 an independent member of the Yahoo board of directors and is a full time chief of the slot machine maker International Game Technology (IGT).

Hart said in a statement that they had to shut down all operations at Yahoo, as this could interfere with the CEO of International Game Technology. Philip Satre, chairman of IGT, said that this step was determined on the request of the company: You have asked Hart, arise in the next Yahoo shareholders’ meeting to stop the election, as this would be a “distraction” for their role in IGT .

Last week it became known that the current Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson, otherwise than on his resume, has no college degree in computer science. Discovered the fraud by investor Daniel Loeb, Third Point’s company 5.8 percent of Yahoo shares was holding.

Thompson has since apologized to the Yahoo employees by e-mail for the inconvenience caused by the controversy, a public opinion, the former PayPal manager but yet so far.

Nokia is suing HTC, RIM and Viewsonic

As Nokia has announced a few minutes, you have several lawsuits against competitors HTC, Research in Motion filed and ViewSonic total of five courts and institutions. Background, the violations of 45 patents, the Finnish mobile phone manufacturer.

These deal with such areas as power management, multi-mode radio modules and dual-function antenna. But the software side there will be injuries to App Stores, the multi-tasking, navigation solutions, dynamic menus, data encryption and receiving e-mail attachments on mobile devices. According to statements made by Nokia Chefjustiziarin Louise Pentland will be used to avoid the complaints of the continued unauthorized use of the techniques. So far we have met with more than 40 other companies license agreement.

Submitted one has the action at the International Trade Commission (HTC), the District Court of Delaware (Samsung and ViewSonic) and the District Courts of Düsseldorf (HTC and Research In Motion), Mannheim and Munich (HTC, Research in Motion and ViewSonic). Statements of the companies are still pending.

SWTOR: BioWare thinking about server consolidation to

About four months after the launch, developer BioWare first direct problems with the number of players in “Star Wars: The Old Republic” ( Computer Base Test granted). In an interview with PC Gamer emphasized Writing Director Daniel Erickson, however, that the number of subscribers was stable.

Rather, it was about the same number of players in play. This had decreased significantly compared to the initial phase, would arise why the feeling of empty servers. So you think about it, to merge some of these in order to revive the world. However, there is still no concrete decision in this regard. In addition to working on further measures to increase the attractiveness. The aim is tempt-game events including a special player to stop more often in the game. Will gradually keep as before entry of new content, so Erickson.

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Specific figures were most recently publisher Electronic Arts in early February . So is the online role-playing game by then some two million copies sold, the number of active accounts was 1.7 million. Some things, however, say that the latter value has declined since. Recently we had with free weekends trying to attract new players for themselves. On the part of the player base is also still listen to that content after reaching the maximum level are not sufficient to motivate the long term.

Huawei presents the results of sales in 2011 and becomes a higher value

The Chinese company Huawei today announced the sales figures for the past 2011 terminal as a whole, which achieved the not inconsiderable figure of 55 million phones sold, 20 million of whom were treated smartphones of the brand.

Data are a true reflection of a company upward, so the goal of 60 million smartphones sold for this year 2012 may be considered as feasible, considering the figures of last year compared to 2010 reflecting a growth of to 500%.

Course, has nothing to do with the more than 30 million units that Samsung has sold in a single quarter. However, a landmark in the development of a company known largely through mobile modems distributed by most wireless carriers. Sector which has become the first supplier worldwide with sales of 60 million units.

However, the domestic market in China remains the country where the bulk of drink sales company, appearing sometimes as a serious alternative in the old continent models economic range and performance more than acceptable, also making the point sights on the U.S. markets as the main strengths and Nippon play in business strategy for the current year.

New E-Plus flat rate for Allnet phone with mobile internet

E-Plus brings Yourfone.de another new brand to the start. Yourfone.de hides behind an All-Net flat rate and a flat rate for the mobile Internet for a total of just 19.90 € per month. This price is obtained, but only if you opt for a 24-month contract. If one does not, the price rises to 24.90 euros. An expansion of the Internet and an additional flat-flat SMS also cost € 5 each extra per month.

Yourfone.de is the new discount brand of E-Plus, which will position itself in particular in the flat area. Yourfone.de customers get for 19.90 euros a month, an all-net flatrate and a flat rate for the mobile Internet. The latter, however, is throttled to 500 MB to 56 kbit / s. Additional nonrecurring fall as € 19.90 entry fee. Basically, when Yourfone.de a contract rate with a maturity of 24 months.

Source: Yourfone.de
The freedom to terminate earlier, can cost can be e-Plus 5 € per month. Without 24-month bond costs of the flat rate of € 24.90 Yourfone.de so. Alternatively, one can extend the tariff is an advanced Internet-flat and an additional SMS-Flat. The Internet provides extended flat high-speed 1 GB transfer volume, but is then throttled to 56 kbit / s, ie GPRS level. The flat has unlimited SMS to all German mobile networks. Without the SMS text message costs a flat to the German mobile network 9 cents.

MMS messages are charged at 0.39 euros. Calls from overseas cost from 0,29 € per minute and text messages from 0,10 €. The retrieval of voice mail is free. The rate of Yourfone.de completes the portfolio rate of E-Plus. Other discount stores in the E-Plus network, such as Simyo and Blau.de have any combination of All-Net and Internet flat rate in the program. User, the telephone a lot and occasionally surf find in Yourfone.de therefore a cheaper alternative.

Nokia financial performance in the first quarter: half of last year Smartphones

Nokia has just made ​​public its financial results for the first quarter of 2012, and the truth is that there is nothing encouraging, as we anticipated . The company had sales of 7,400 million euros, 3,000 million less than the same quarter last year.

As we already knew , but more accurately, Nokia sold 70.8 million phones “dumb” and 11.9 million smartphones. In the first quarter of 2011 were sold 24.9 million smartphones, the rapid decline of Symbian, and Windows Phone total bet, have much to say about it.

Taking advantage of new information sharing, such as regional distribution, we can see that the fall in sales in China is 70%, Europe 35%, 34% in North America, the Middle East and Africa 32%, and the rest Asia’s 28%.

Fattened by restructuring losses

Nokia has failed to make money in the last quarter, have been presented with a loss of 1,300 million euros. This figure includes 772 million for the restructuring of Nokia Siemens Networks.

Around 101 million has gone for the restructuring of the departments of “devices, services, location and trade,” mainly in the low that has been occurring in stages of labor and the expense of bringing the production to factories in Asia.

Nokia has again received EUR 250 million from Microsoft in this quarter, we understand that way of using and supporting Windows Phone.

It is estimated that over three million phones in the market Lumia, according to information provided by the Finnish company. Stephen Elop commented that the four phones Lumia are having a good start in the U.S. , but not both in the UK.

We are clearly in a transition period for Nokia, but the competition is still eating out and market share. The reality is that for the second quarter is not expected to be a big change in this negative trend.

Colin Giles gets off the train

Colin Giles is one of the heads in the sales department of the company and one of 14 members of the Nokia Leadership Team, after twenty years the company has decided to leave office. He will not do immediately to help Nokia in the transition.

Nokia plans to replace it because “it is good” for the program of cost reduction in sales management. His responsibilities are taken over by Niklas Savander, in turn, responsible for markets.

Tumblr and the eternal quest for monetization: now sell advertising to brands

Tumblr continues to ravage, with a constant growth rate by increasing its growing user base. But has long had a problem: how to capitalize on these figures, economically speaking? How can monetize their platform? In the past we have seen so attempts have not really gotten off the ground (no official figures, but at least there are a lot), but what David Karp, Tumblr’s CEO, recently announced could change your future.

As expected, the ads come to Tumblr, but perhaps not the way we expected. From May 2 marks may pay an undetermined amount of money to appear among the highlights of Tumblr Radar, a space located on the dashboard for each user so far the best posts included hand-selected by the team and Tumblr newspaper reaches more than 120 million impressions. As also announced, this will be one of the first news of the many companies destined to see in this regard.

The idea, according to David Karp (founder of Tumblr), make their platform more accessible to brands. It was unclear the price they will pay for this “extra” Accessibility and the process will be made to publish their own promotions. Are they open to small and medium enterprises as well, or are we talking about premium advertisers? For now do not have details, but from Tumblr hope this new strategy to become one of its main sources of income, or even the main one. Do they work?

Blackberry Curve 9220, currently only for India

Under the shadow of the flashy smartphones there is a whole world of midrange terminals fighting fiercely for a millionaire and very profitable market, the emerging countries. One of the fastest growing nations in this regard is India market where RIM launches new Blackberry Curve 9220.

The Curve 9220 is designed to be an affordable connectivity solution for a young audience. Therefore dispensed directly from the 3G connectivity for WiFi N, Bluetooth 2.1 with A2DP audio profile and FM radio.

Externally, the Blackberry Curve 9220 is a canonical equipped with 2.44-inch screen resolution 320 × 240 pixels, full QWERTY keyboard, optical trackpad and a dedicated button paar Blackberry Messenger.

The camera is not very powerful and equipped with only a 2-megapixel sensor. However, your storage system includes MicroSD card slot, which guarantees up to 32GB for music, video or photos.

The operating system is Blackberry RIM OS7 and has launched a promotional campaign for the new terminal users can download a number of applications for free.

The Blackberry Curve 9220 available in India from next April 19. In the coming weeks, the terminal will be available in other markets. It remains unclear whether Spain will be one of them even has all the earmarks of that do we have here.

How blind people use their smartphones

Tomy Edison, blind since birth, is a great example of overcoming. Despite his disability Edison has worked on several radio stations as a sound engineer and DJ for the past 20 years. In addition, several years ago also dedicated to film criticism, in your web BlindFilmCritic (stating that he does not distract the magnificent view, which allows you to better appreciate and focus more on the script and the quality of the performances) .

But … why do we speak of this good man in a mobile phone blog?, Simple, as part of its work, Edison tries to show people through his YouTube channel how is daily life for a person with visual difficulties, and of these videos, there is one – you can see below – in which he explains how he uses his cell phone, iPhone 4S .

The technology is meant to help in everyday life: speed up some tasks, stay connected and informed … and the video we just saw is a good example of how these benefits can also be enjoyed in spite of disabilities, with a choice accessibility that come with most mobile phones (some are more complete than others, so we can see, in the case of IOS seems to be all very well integrated).

As Edison tells us, thanks to VoiceOver is able to know what actions are doing on screen, since the iPhone applications you read about who has the finger, read tweets, etc.. And thanks to a new system of gestures (three fingers to move screen, double tap to open the app or perform an action), the system still works perfectly.

Study: Which mobile OS is the safest?

Finally, people associated with the brand name “BlackBerry” more bad news, such as decreased sales and drunk, on a plane pöbelnde manager. So probably a new study by Trend Micro balm for the soul of RIM employees – as thus is the most secure BlackBerry OS mobile operating system.

Even if the consumer business already accounts for a huge proportion: For companies, the safety of mobile platforms for the purchase continue to play an important role. Against this background, the BlackBerry OS cuts in version 7 as compared to Android, IOS, according to Trend Micro and Windows Phone from the best by far.

Review: Security of mobile platforms (source: TrendMicro)
Basis of the study, an assessment of the operating systems in a variety of security-related categories such as “firewall” and “Data Protection”, “corporate managed e-mail” or “authentication”, where it is clear that the originally so unique BlackBerry competence – safe and reliable professional operation – in spite of the misery is far from being washed out.

While the BlackBerry OS, the competition can be far behind, ranked Windows Mobile 7.5 (WP 7.5) and iOS 5 at a slight advantage for the latter is roughly at eye level, are being noted be that WP four of the relevant functions not only provides so the valuation ratios not only the quality of safety features, but reflect to some extent its availability. The relatively open Android is in the present by far the most widely used version 2.3 does not cut off eventually but clearly is the last place, where once again highlighted the Android Market as the source and distribution of malicious software.

The basis for competitiveness and its own niche seems to have given so continue for BlackBerry, which can be taken as an indication that RIM is in a critical but far from hopeless situation.