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The $7.17 billion acquisition deal of Nokia’s devices and services division still hasn’t been closed, Microsoft is having to jump through various legal and regulatory hoops before it can finally absorb the division. Even though regulators in the U.S. and the European Union found no reason to believe that this acquisition could result in an unfavorable business environment for rivals, China’s Ministry of Commerce is pushing ahead with its anti-monopoly review of the deal. Google and Samsung have now reportedly joined local vendors who are voicing their concerns against this.

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Microsoft-Nokia Deal Reportedly Draws Concerns From Rivals In China original content from Ubergizmo.

So it seems that Samsung made quite a splash for themselves at the Oscars. It seems that the South Korean tech giant provided some celebrities with new Samsung phones, presumably to take photos with and to crow about the wonders of Samsung’s technology.

While television talk show host, Ellen Degeneres’ selfie turned out to be quite a hit (and thus a hit for Samsung too by extension), it seems that Nokia took the opportunity to rib Samsung for some of the photos that was captured using their products. (more…)

Nokia Thinks Samsung’s Photos Are Blurry original content from Ubergizmo.

As Nokia X is introduced to the world, Nokia suggests that they’re opening up a new door, aiming for a segment in the affordable international smartphone market that they’d not … Continue reading

Not a week after Nokia X has been revealed as the company’s first Android smartphone, it’s been hacked. Intrepid developer KashaMalaga has made with the quick process of bypassing the … Continue reading

Reporters are drunkenly finding their way home from a long week in Barcelona, where the Mobile World Congress conference yielded a number of exciting new phones and tablets. Most notably, Samsung launched the Galaxy s5, Nokia launched a new Nokia X line of Android/Windows Phone hybrid devices, and we finally got up close and personal with the BlackPhone. We discuss all this and more on this… Read More