Google to cut 200 sales, marketing jobs

Google Inc (GOOG.O) is cutting its sales and marketing team by roughly 200 employees, saying it had over-invested in certain parts of the company.

The move is the Web search leader's latest effort to cut costs amid a tough economy and a broad slowdown in advertising spending. In January, Google laid off about 100 recruiters and it said up to 40 people would be laid off in February, when Google pulled the plug on its radio advertising effort.

"When companies grow that quickly it's almost impossible to get everything right and we certainly didn't," Google Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development Omid Kordestani said in an announcement posted on Google's blog on Thursday.

"In addition, we over-invested in some areas in preparation for the growth trends we were experiencing at the time," he added.

Google has nearly 21,000 employees. The Mountain View, California-based company does not disclose how many staff work in sales and marketing.

Sameet Sinha, an analyst with JMP Securities, said the cuts were in keeping with the agenda of Chief Financial Officer Patrick Pichette, who took the job last year and has made cost-cutting a priority.

"His first line of attack was going after non-core expenses. Now he's looking at some of the major organizations there where you can cut costs," said Sinha, who rate Google's stock "market outperform." His company makes a market in the stock.

In the wake of U.S. sales head Tim Armstrong's recent departure from Google to take the top job at Time Warner Inc's (TWX.N) AOL, Sinha said the sales team was more vulnerable to cuts.

Google is the No. 1 search engine in the United States, with a roughly 63 percent market share, according to comScore. In 2008, 97 percent of Google's $21.8 billion in revenue came from advertising.

Google's strength in text-based search advertising has shielded it from the difficult conditions plaguing the online display ads that companies like Yahoo Inc (YHOO.O) and AOL depend on.

Even so, Google's business has not been completely immune. Total sales grew 18 percent in the fourth quarter of 2008 versus 51 percent in the fourth quarter of 2007. Continued...

"Cloud-based" console takes aim at Wii, PS3, Xbox 360

A new videogame company is aiming to challenge the big three console makers by providing a "cloud-based" gaming system promising on-demand access to games and no lag time.

The fledging company, called OnLive, said its service will allow users to play games on any TV and nearly any personal computer -- even stripped-down netbooks and PCs without graphics processors.

A console slightly larger than an iPhone connects TVs and broadband connections to the OnLive service, and is operated via a wireless controller. OnLive delivers games run on servers in the "cloud," rather than locally on a PC or a console.

OnLive, which has been in development for seven years, has deals in place with 10 publishers to provide new game titles when they hit the shelves. Heavyweights such as Electronic Arts, Ubisoft, Take Two, and THQ have signed on.

"When you want to play a game, you just click a button and it plays instantly," said Steve Perlman, OnLive's founder and chief executive. "It's that simple."

Perlman is a well-known Silicon Valley entrepreneur who helped launch WebTV, which Microsoft bought in 1997.

He said OnLive allows complex and graphically rich games to play with outstanding performance on even low-end PCs or Macs.

The company expects to launch its service in the winter of 2009. Although OnLive did not release details on pricing, it will follow a subscription model and Perlman said it will be "significantly" cheaper than consoles.

Nintendo's Wii, Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3 consoles can cost anywhere from $200 to $400.

OnLive was formally launched Tuesday at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Its innovation rests in its video compression technology, which instantly streams video down through the Internet so that it appears "effectively instantaneously," Perlman said.

"Perceptually, it appears the game is playing locally."

OnLive, which was spun out of technology incubator Rearden, is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. Its investors include Time Warner's Warner Bros., Autodesk and Maverick Capital.

Microsoft IE8 explorer has some cool new features

Can Microsoft's (MSFT) Internet Explorer Web browser reclaim chunks of market share swiped by upstart Firefox?

The arrival last week of Internet Explorer 8 (IE8), just two years after Microsoft's last major browser upgrade, IE7, should help answer that question.

IE8, which can be downloaded free, has cool new features: "Web slices" let you quickly call up selected content from a Web page — such as updates from an eBay auction page — via the IE8 favorites bar; "accelerators" make it easier to cut and paste text from one page and insert it on another.

Beyond that, IE8 has restored some of Microsoft's lost bravado. Mike Nash, corporate vice president of Windows product management, insists IE8 is uniformly faster at loading Web pages than Firefox 3, despite debate in tech circles about this claim.

"I feel very good that IE8 will be a reason to keep using IE," Nash said in an interview. "And for our previous customers, who may not be using IE today, IE8 will be a compelling reason to come back."

Web browsers were once so mundane that Microsoft took five years to upgrade IE6, introduced with Windows XP in 2001, to IE7. Millions still use IE6. Meanwhile, Firefox, introduced in late 2004, has racked up significant market share and popularized features, such as tab browsing, which lets you quickly click back to several open Web pages.

As of last month, Firefox commanded a 22% global market share vs. 68% for IE, according to Net Applications. Meanwhile, Opera, Apple's Safari and Google's Chrome are staking out potentially huge new turf for browsers on computing devices other than laptops and desktop PCs.

Web browsers have emerged as the doorway to an interactive Internet, which people are increasingly accessing on mobile devices, cars, TV recorders, even video gaming consoles. "We're really happy to see Microsoft isn't standing still anymore," says Mike Beltzner, Firefox director of development. "But we're not standing still, either."

Firefox 3.5, due this summer, will up the ante by supporting HTML 5, a new Web standard that makes it easier to embed videos on Web pages, and "canvas," which lets artists hand draw images on Web pages.

Apple and Google are moving aggressively in browsing on cellphones, while Opera is gaining a foothold with its Opera Mini, a free cellphone browser popular with BlackBerry and Windows Mobile users. And Opera is the browser that connects Nintendo's Wii gaming console to the Web. "Our browser runs on any platform or device," says Rod Hamlin, Opera senior vice president.

Microsoft supplies a version of IE for Windows Mobile devices, and a separate Web interface for Xbox 360.

IE8 could help the software giant regain ground in these browser wars. "So long as IE8 delivers as advertised, I believe it could help slow or even largely halt Windows users moving to alternative browsers," says Charles King, principal analyst at Pund-IT. "Whether that will be enough to draw back customers who have already migrated remains to be seen."

Source: http://www.usatoday.com

Google blacks out Street View pictures

Hundreds of pictures from Google’s new Street View service have been removed after concerns were voiced about invasion of privacy. But Google has insisted it was ‘less than expected’. The firm added US Google Maps posted an 84 per cent increase in visits as British web users began checking out places in America. The Street View application allows users to access 360-degree views of roads and homes in 25 British cities and includes photographs of millions of residential addresses, people and cars. Google said some businesses had been quick to make the most of the new technology. A Google spokeswoman said today the number of removal requests had reached the ‘hundreds’, but it had been ‘less than expected’ given the ‘tens of millions’ of images available on the site.

This image of a man being sick outside a poll hall in east London has been removed

Blacked out: This image of a man emerging from a sex shop in Soho has been removed

What must the neighbour’s think? This house in Oxford has a shark tail sticking out of the roof

Street View was launched in America two years ago and has since been expanded to cities in France, Italy, Spain, Australia, New Zealand and Japan. The British version features tens of millions of photos of 25 cities including London, Edinburgh, Cardiff, Manchester, Oxford and Leeds. More towns and cities will be added over the next few years, and the photos are expected to be updated every two or three years. Google believes Street View will be popular with shoppers trying to find stores, drinkers looking for pubs, and house buyers wanting to find out more about neighbourhoods.

Source: http://www.rlslog.net

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Microsoft officially released Internet Explorer 8

The Mix09 conference in Las Vegas, Nevada (March 18-20), which caters to both designers and web developers alike, has been chosen as the setting for Microsoft’s next-generation Web browser launch, Internet Explorer 8. The launch follows the release of Silverlight beta and Expression Blend 3, a web design and prototyping tool preview. Microsoft shows signs of finally listening to the needs of people. “Customers have made clear what they want in a Web browser — safety, speed and greater ease of use,” said Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO, in a statement. “With Internet Explorer 8, we are delivering a browser that gets people to the information they need, fast, and provides protection that no other browser can match.”

The browser is still lacking in regards to extensions and JavaScript, but it does deliver more than Mozilla’s Firefox in terms of browsing utilities such as Accelerators, search improvements, tab assistance and WebSlices. There are also security features, such as InPrivate browsing. This function leaves no trace the user was ever utilizing the PC. In addition, it prevents third-party websites from monitoring activities conducted by a user over the web. Microsoft has even delivered a Smart Address bar, which is much like the “awesome bar” from Firefox. However, the browser’s greatest bragging rights could be that it’s the company’s first standards compliant browser, bucking its previous 15 year trend. This means it supports Cascading Style Sheets 2.1. In older IE versions backward compatibility was needed, so it was built-in.

With IE8, a standards mode and IE7 mode are included so users can render sites built to previous IE (non-)specs. The browser is also equipped with a time and frustration saving “auto render” feature that works from a web site list. When a user visits those sites known to have trouble rendering in IE8, the browser automatically reverts to IE7-compatible rendering. It is expected the browser launch will be announced by Dean Hachamovitch (leader of the IE8 development team) during his keynote today. Beginning at noon EDT, it will be available for download on Microsoft’s website. The product is available in 25 languages for Windows Server, Windows Vista, and Windows XP in either 32-bit or 64-bit editions.

[BAK2u] Review: Phoenix anti-theft software

I have a friend whose laptop was stolen when he was traveling in France. The perpetrator broke into his hotel room, ripped open his luggage and took his Macbook. The hotel’s security camera tapes were handed to the police for investigation and now almost a year later, he never saw his laptop or heard from the police.

We all love our macs because it’s not just a piece of hardware, it’s a collection of all your personal data, photos you’ve taken, music that you like and for those who work off their Macs, their livelihood. Replacing the machine is one thing, but if you haven’t been backing up your data regularly then even a new mac without any pictures, tunes or even emails will never feel like you’ve really replaced it.

Truth be told, the chances of recovering a stolen laptop is close to zero but you can increase your chances by installing anti-theft software. There’s a few in the market, but today we’re going to look specifically at Phoenix, developed by a Singaporean company, BAK2u.

Phoenix installs as preference pane, which is good thing because it’s meant to remain hidden. When the thief turns on the Mac and an internet connection is established, he will be prompted to enter a password, failing which, the software will assume that the Mac is stolen and begin tracing the laptop.

Phoenix notifies you in a few ways but at it’s core, it uses Skyhook Wireless technology to ascertain your Mac’s position using a combination of GPS, Cellular Tower triangulation and Wi-Fi access points. With the location found, Phoenix is able to discreetly send you an email with the GPS location with a link to Google Maps and also an external IP address of the ISP your Mac is connected to. The software will also use the built-in iSight camera to take a short movie of the perpetrator’s face as he’s using your Mac. It could also be configured to send out updates to Twitter with the GPS location. The tweet formatting is a little off, but it’s nothing major. Furthermore, if you’ve set up your twitter account to notify you of tweets via your mobile, then it extends this functionality even more...more

One Hundred New Features For iPhone, iPod Touch

Apple said Tuesday that it is adding more than 100 new features for its iPhone and iPod touch via a software update due out later this year.

The tweaks include many features iPhone users have long lobbied for. They include the ability to cut, copy and paste text; rotate from portrait mode to landscape mode in key applications; and the ability to send photos, locations and audio information over the cellphone network via MMS.

Other tweaks include Spotlight, a single application that allows users to search for information in Apple's (nasdaq: AAPL - news - people ) mail, calendar and music applications; shake the phone to shuffle between songs; and record and share voice mail.

Apple discussed the updates as it offered a sneak peek of the next version of its iPhone operating system to developers and the press at its headquarters. The software will be available Tuesday as a developer beta and as a free update for iPhone customers sometime this summer. The software will cost $9.95 for iPhone touch customers.

The stakes are high: Apple is relying on its smart phone business to deliver growth as its iPod business matures and the worldwide PC market stagnates.

Apple sold 13.7 million iPhones last year. The iPhone operating system now powers more than 30 million devices, including the iPod touch. That's in large part thanks to Apple's App Store, introduced last year, which opened up the iPhone software to outside developers.

More than 25,000 applications are available on the iPhone now, and iPhone and iPod touch users have downloaded more than 800 million applications over the past eight months.

Separately, Apple introduced more than 1,000 APIs, or software hooks, that developers can use to add new capabilities to their applications. They include the ability for software makers to sell subscriptions to new content, additional levels for games and the ability to sell new content--such as a book--inside an application.

Apple also introduced the ability to automatically discover other applications running on nearby devices using Bluetooth. This will allow gamers, for example, to square off against other players.

Developers can also pair up their applications with hardware. That trick would allow a software developer to turn an iPhone into an equalizer for a set of speakers.

Maps and directions will also play a bigger role in the iPhone. Developers will also be able to embed Google's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) map service into their applications and build turn-by-turn directions using the location data collected by the iPhone and iPod touch.

Finally, Apple also added a long-overdue push notification service, allowing developers to ping a user with an audio or text cue when, for example, they get a new text message.

Shares of Apple rose $2.49, or 2.6%, to $97.91 in Tuesday afternoon trading. So far this year, the company's stock has risen more than 8%.

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Microsoft Sets Developer Strategy for Windows Mobile Apps

Microsoft has announced its strategy for empowering developers to create and monetize applications for the next generation of Windows phones. As incentive for developers to build compelling applications for the Windows Mobile platform, Microsoft said it will provide developers with 70 percent of the sales revenue of their applications.

Microsoft has announced its strategy for empowering developers to create and monetize applications for the next generation of Windows phones.

In a March 11 announcement, Microsoft laid out new details about how developers can build and sell applications for Windows phones through Windows Marketplace for Mobile, the company's recently announced application marketplace available with the Windows Mobile 6.5 operating system.

As incentive for developers to build compelling applications for the Windows Mobile platform, Microsoft said it will provide developers with 70 percent of the sales revenue of their applications from Windows Marketplace for Mobile, transparency throughout the certification process, and guidance and support from the stage of development to the final sale to the consumer...more

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Apple unveiled new, talking iPod Shuffle

If you’ve ever wondered what the name of that new Metallica song is — in Mandarin Chinese– Apple’s new iPod Shuffle can tell you. The company Wednesday unveiled its next-generation iPod Shuffle that has a new feature, VoiceOver, which enables the iPod to speak song titles, artists and playlist names. The shuffle can speak 14 languages, including English, Czech, Dutch, French, German, Greek, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin Chinese, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Swedish and Turkish. The new iPod 4GB also is nearly half the size of the previous model at 1.8 inches tall by 0.3 inches thick. Controls are now located on the earbud cord, which the company said is more convenient, but not so much if you want to switch out headphones.

With 4 GB of storage, the new Shuffle holds up to 1,000 songs. Apple said that song capacity is based on 4 minutes per song. In 256-Kbps AAC format, song capacity is up to 500 songs; actual capacity varies by encoding method and bit rate. The revamped Shuffle also lets users sync multiple playlists for the first time. Additionally, it features a switch with three positions that users can flip to shuffle songs, play them in order or turn off power. Speaking of power, the new Shuffle has a battery life of up to 10 hours. For fashion mavens, the new iPod is a must-have “tech-cessory, a wardrobe essential,” Apple said. The clip is made of stainless steel, while the Shuffle itself is made of anodized aluminum and is available in silver or black. The 4GB retails for $79 and is available immediately.

Source: CRN

2G iPod Touch Jailbroken at Last

One oddity of the jailbreaking scene is that, while the iPhone 3G was liberated months ago, the second generation iPod Touch has remained hack proof. Until now, that is. Nitrokey Slipstream is a solution that claims to unlock the iPod and allow you to install non-App Store software on it.

We say "claims" as the product site looks a little suspicious. First, the team wants money. The software costs $15 and runs on Windows machines only (OS X support is promised "soon"). In addition, there is no demo video, no screen shots, nothing. The only hint of what you might get is a picture of an iPod Touch with the Cydia icon on its screen. Cydia is the jailbreak version of the official App Store.

This may of course be unfounded suspicion, but as ever it seems a little odd that hackers should charge for a hacking tool. It's like expecting people to pay for a BitTorrent client. Besides, if this hack works, you can be sure that there will be a free version along soon from the iPhone Dev Team.

U2 hooks up with BlackBerry; does iPhone have a crying app?

With or without Apple? Without.

Irish rock group U2 is going without its iconic corporate partner, at least for its upcoming dance across the globe, which begins June 30 in Barcelona, Spain with the kick-off to the band's Live Nation tour to support its new "No Line on the Horizon'' album. The tour will be sponsored by Research In Motion, whose decidedly staid BlackBerry is being challenged by Apple's gadget eye candy iPhone.

"This tour announcement marks the first stage of a relationship and shared vision between RIM and U2 that we expect will lead to new and innovative ways to enhance the mobile music experience on the BlackBerry platform for U2 fans," said U2 manager Paul McGuinness. "We look forward to sharing more details as the relationship unfolds."

It wasn't long ago that Apple and U2 were joined at the, uh, iPod

In 2004, lead singer Bono and the guitarist known as Edge joined Apple Chief Executive Steve Jobs on the stage of the newly restored California Theatre in San Jose to announce an unprecedented marketing partnership between U2 and the Cupertino technology company.

Then came the jet-black iPod U2 Special Edition.

"This love affair between Steve Jobs and Bono — I don't know," said Needham analyst Charles Wolf. "Hey, it's a democracy. Bono was hanging out with Bill Gates for a while."

Alas, money is thicker than love.

Chances are, the capitalist rockers — Bono is a leader at Menlo Park-based venture capital firm Elevation Partners, after all — played the two smart-phone makers off of each other, said analyst Rob Enderle.

"RIM was able to come up with the cash and Apple didn't," Enderle said. "I imagine one of the reasons RIM got this is because Steve Jobs (out on sick leave) is not there to say, 'What a minute. We should probably own this one.'''

Of course, Apple isn't known for spending a lot of dough to sponsor concerts. Besides, Apple got plenty of marketing bang from U2 — without backing an expensive tour.

Apple had no comment on U2's new corporate playmate.

If anyone should be peeved, it should be Palm, Wolf said. After all, Elevation Partners is an investor in the Sunnyvale-based company, which is about to release its own touchscreen smart-phone, called Pre, that will compete with the iPhone and the BlackBerry.

"That tells you what (Bono) thinks about the new Pre," he quipped.

Past Was Guide for Changes to Windows Development

About a year ago on its Redmond, Washington, campus, a member of Microsoft's Windows Vista team met with a group of journalists to face some tough questions about the OS.

At the time, it was clear Vista was not going to be the great success Microsoft had predicted, as many of the company's critical business customers were beginning to reveal they would wait for the next release of Microsoft's client OS instead of upgrading corporate desktops to Vista.

Among questions posed to Microsoft that day were how the company could have gotten Vista so wrong after five-plus years of development, and how much longer Microsoft could justify putting out major software releases that needed substantial bug fixes before they were fit for enterprise deployment.

It has long been the mantra among IT professionals not to "go out and buy that first release" of Windows, but "wait until the service pack comes out because there are so many bugs and issues," said longtime Microsoft partner and customer Scott Noles, director of technology and education at Microsoft customer Kinex Medical, a medical rehabilitation center in Waukesha, Wisconsin.

The same rang true for Vista, and even for its predecessor Windows XP, a solid OS still in wide use that nonetheless also required a major service-pack release to deal with critical security issues that plagued enterprise users.

Microsoft had no answers that day to the questions it faced about Vista. Fast-forward a year later to now, however, and the company does...more

Jailbreak stores plot to plunder iPhone app revenue

At least three groups are working to syphon cash from Apple's river of revenue between iPhone users and third party developers. Accomplishing that will require inducing more jailbreaking of iPhones, ensuring contention from Apple itself.

Following its existing iTunes game plan, Apple originally set up the iPhone App Store primarily to create a rich software library to attract the attention of potential phone shoppers rather than to make money on the software itself. The company proposed charging developers much less (a 30% cut rather than the more typical 40% to 70% of other online software stores) and handling all their promotion, updates, and sales transactions in the hope that an attractive market for mobile software would induce development.

The resulting success of the App Store has been a surprise even to Apple's executives. Mobile software downloads for the iPod touch and iPhone have been growing at a rate at least double that of the launch of iPod music sales, which had been a blockbuster event in itself.

On its six month path to the first half billion software downloads, Apple struggled to keep up with application requests from interested developers and wrestled with policy issues over the rejection of certain software titles based on content offensiveness, user privacy issues, and interference with the company's own goals, such as an attempt to build a copy/paste system using undocumented APIs...more

Hutchison net dives, offers dividend in shares

Hutchison Telecom International Ltd (HTIL) posted a sharp fall in 2008 net profit to HK$1.88 billion ($241 million), the company announced yesterday.

HTIL confirmed it had applied to the Stock Exchange of Hong Kong to list its Hong Kong and Macau businesses, and told shareholders it would pay an interim dividend in shares in the new spinoff.

The company, which runs mobile businesses across Asia, posted a HK$68 billion net profit in 2007 following the sale of its Indian cellco Essar to Vodafone.

It made an operating profit in 2008 of HK$4.06 billion, compared with a HK$2.8 billion loss a year ago, as a result of sale of base station towers and other assets in Indonesia.

But it warned that the US SEC was reviewing the accounting treatment of the Indonesian tower deals and said the company may be required to treat the transactions as a finance lease.

Ebitda was up 16.8% to HK$6.1 billion on 16.3% higher turnover of HK$23.7 billion.

CFO Chris Foll said the company would invest approximately HK$7 billion ($900 million) in 2009, mostly on the expanding Indonesian and Vietnamese operations.

It expects to deploy 9,000 base stations in Indonesia and 5,000 in Vietnam. It will re-launch its Vietnam GSM service under the brand Vietnamobile in the first quarter.

HTIL’s mobile customer base grew 28% to 12.1 million last year, with Indonesian customers more than doubling to 4.5 million.

Would-be iPhone developers "pulling their hair out by the roots"

Apple's ability to process iPhone developer contracts is quickly turning into a minor crisis as what was once a smooth process is rapidly turning into a months-long backlog that threatens to keep new developers out of the App Store.

Previous reports that the earliest third-party iPhone app developers are facing expired contracts

Where requests for an agreement once took as little as two days for Apple to handle in the early days of the iPhone SDK, coders speaking to AppleInsider and on the iPhone development boards are increasingly reporting delays in initial approval that have changed from days into months -- even for free apps, which require less paperwork than commercial software.

"Many developers are pulling their hair out by the roots," one such producer tells AppleInsider. "Our corporate contract, submitted around December of last year, has yet to be approved after more than two months. And this is merely for a free app!"

This and other sources also report that many messages to Apple are either given a stock response apologizing for the wait or else receive no answer at all.

It's quickly becoming clear that the long hold times and silence on the matter stem from unpreparedness on Apple's part for the popularity of the App Store and the pressure it creates to renew its relationships with developers. A call by Ars Technica's Erica Sadun to the Apple Developer Connection has not only revealed that the company knows there are "many developers" either without contracts or facing expiry but that there isn't even a system by which Apple can renew its existing deals.

When that system will be put into place isn't known, though the ADC representative promises that Apple will at least avoid a crisis that would see older apps gradually vanish from the store as existing agreements come to an end. Any software that has already been approved will, reportedly, remain on the store even after its associated contract runs out.

That's little comfort to first-time developers, who are increasingly being discouraged by a process that in many cases prevents them from getting their first real foothold in the App Store. Without clear signs that Apple is addressing the problem, companies and individuals alike are questioning whether they should continue to produce iPhone apps in the first place.

"It makes it really tough to continue development," one developer says.
are also being joined by stories from those who have yet to have their very first contracts approved.

Source: http://www.appleinsider.com

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Invitation is open to existing BAK2u customers - 50 companies and/or consumer users.

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[BAK2u] IT Show 2009

Together with partner H2H Group, Phoenix for Windows will be made available in the coming IT Show 2009!

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Nokia Gets the Hiccups with 5800 U.S. Launch

Nokia is having problems with launch of the North America model of the 5800 handset. Nokia USA this weekend stopped selling the American version of the 5800 in its two flagship stores in New York and Chicago, just a few days after the U.S. introduction on February 26. Nokia is now selling the European version of 5800 as a replacement.

Two major problems plagued the North American model of the Nokia 5800. The first is in the form of the phone's earpiece speakers, which are reportedly not properly protected against moisture; and the second is the phone's inability to find AT&T 3G network, which led to many customers returning the phone.

Nokia confirmed this weekend that many of the 5800 handsets delivered worldwide before January 2009 have a problem with the phone's earpiece, which wasn't properly protected from moisture ingestions. The company said that all the faulty earpieces have now been replaced with units produced by a different manufacturer. Nokia 5800 handsets bought after January 2009 should not experience this problem...more

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