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It’s time to open the book! We’re live from Nokia’s headquarters in Espoo, Finland, with Stephen Elop. The smartphone maker’s CEO has set aside 30 minutes to answer your questions about anything and everything Nokia. If you haven’t already submitted your questions, it’s not too late! Head over to Twitter and give us a shout @EngadgetLive — we’ll be pulling our questions directly from there, along with the comments section of yesterday’s post. Unfortunately we won’t be able to get to everyone, but we will be setting aside the second half of the session to respond to your follow-ups, so keep an eye on the Q&A and fire off your queries. Click the image above to get started — this page will go live just before the clock strikes 4AM ET.

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Engadget Live: ‘Ask me anything’ Q&A with Nokia CEO Stephen Elop originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 25 Sep 2012 03:55:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Twitter has ruffled a few feathers recently, so when CEO Dick Costolo took the stage at the Online News Association conference in San Francisco, he took the opportunity to put some minds at rest. First he dismissed the idea that the service would become a media company by forcing users to the site or official app for content, before reasserting his belief in syndication. Costolo then went on to imply that the reason behind the tighter (and unpopular) API controls was ensuring quality — stating that Twitter would reach its full potential now there’s more control over how tweets are delivered. With boots strapped, we can look forward to some new features, such as the option to curate messages that are published (such as during live events) plus tweets with interactive features like polls during live sports games. The famous 140 character limit is to remain, but will also serve as a “caption for additional functionality.” Perhaps of most interest to disenfranchised developers, however, was the mention of application functionality in tweets, where short messages could contain small interactive apps. Something for devs to get potentially get back on board with? We hope so. But until further details unfold, we’re still left considering our options.

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Twitter CEO reveals plans for interactive tweets, content curation, reinforces belief in syndication originally appeared on Engadget on Sat, 22 Sep 2012 14:41:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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T-Mobile has just announced their new CEO this morning, and has formally introduced him in a nice meet and greet video that they’ve tossed up on YouTube. T-Mobile has had a few rough months here in the USA, but today they’re looking forward with their new CEO John Legere who has over 32 years of experience in the mobile and communications world.

Earlier this year back in June T-Mobile’s CEO Philipp Humm suddenly resigned from his position, then the very next day reports surfaced that he’d signed with Vodafone. Between the failed merger with AT&T, a slowing network, and far behind the rest of the USA crowd to 4G LTE T-Mobile’s been looking to make a change — and John Legere is just that.

T-Mobile made the announcement earlier today in an official blog post, and have stated that “John is a talented and proven executive who brings a successful track record of leading and operating consumer- and business-focused telecommunications and technology companies.” The video above shows both René Obermann, CEO of Deutsche Telekom, and John Legere, the newly announced USA branches CEO talking about their future together. Here’s what Legere had to say:

I am thrilled to join T-Mobile and lead the Company at such a pivotal time,” T-Mobile is taking a number of significant steps to revitalize the business and I look forward to leading our team and partners to accelerate these efforts to become a force in our industry.”

John Legere is the former CEO of Global Crossing, and spent plenty of time with Dell on duties outside of the US. We’re assuming one of the main tasks at hand is to revitalize their market share, keep the customers happy, and of course lead the charge in T-Mobile’s 2013 4G LTE plans.

[via TmoNews]

T-Mobile USA names John Legere as new CEO, says hello on YouTube is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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A new report from Reuters claims that Apple and Google CEOs Tim Cook and Larry Page have been conducting private one-on-one settlement talks regarding all these outstanding patent issues. Apparently they’ve been engaged in private discussions behind the scenes for well over the past week according to the report.

Reuters suggests that the two heavy hitters were conducting phone conversations last week and that it won’t be the last one either. These talks have covered a range of intellectual property matters, including the ongoing mobile patent disputes between Apple and Android OEM’s. Most recently they won a huge battle vs Samsung and I’m sure you’re all well aware of that money draining outcome.

Discussion and friendly talks have also been being conducted on lower levels instead of just the CEOs, hinting that both companies could possibly be looking to end these tiresome lawsuits and patent issues. Hopefully we can all just get along and agree to a “truce” as Reuters puts it – although that is unlikely.

Apple’s late Steve Jobs has openly denounced Google’s Android as a “stolen product,” and went as far as saying he’d use every penny of Apple’s cashcow to “destroy Android” and even followed that by stating he was willing to “go thermonuclear war on this.” Apple and Google’s relationship with apps like YouTube and Google Maps have been growing further and further apart in iOS, so the current state of the relationship is unclear. The next phone call between the two CEOs was scheduled for this Friday but was apparently canceled for unknown reasons. Hopefully something positive comes from these talks but we’ll just have to wait and see.

Apple and Google talk patent settlement via CEO meeting is written by Cory Gunther & originally posted on SlashGear.
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After delivering an overachieving laptop, Lenovo has delivered financial results that also exceeded expectations, producing $8 billion in revenue and $141 million net profit. Those figures are up 35 and 30 percent respectively over last year, which the company has chalked up to a higher than ever market share of 15 percent. That growth came in part from a 59 percent sales bump in emerging markets like India and Brazil, on top of a 9 percent spurt in its home market — lifting the company 24 percent in world-wide PC shipments for the quarter. Lenovo has also become the second largest player in China’s smartphone market, after Samsung, now up to a 13 percent market share. CEO Yang Yuanqing also proclaimed that, unlike other Redmond partners, he wasn’t stressed about Microsoft’s Surface tablet — and that his company had “much better hardware” than the software giant.

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Lenovo’s Q1 shows ‘record high’ market share, profits up 30 percent to $141 million originally appeared on Engadget on Thu, 16 Aug 2012 06:27:00 EDT. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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