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Nokia, Symbian Raising Bar In Smart Phone Competition

The already fierce competition in smart phones will hike up a notch on Thursday, when the wireless operating system that Nokia turned into the global leader is “set free.” Nokia (NOK), the world’s No. 1 cell phone maker, launched the operating system, Symbian, 10 years ago. It established the market for smart phones and helped propel Nokia to its market dominance. More than 330 million cell phones running on the Symbian OS have been produced by

Cisco Q2 Improvement ‘Across The Board’

Cisco Systems late Wednesday reported financial results that beat views, and its CEO said the No. 1 networking gear maker saw “dramatic” improvement. The company returned to year-over-year profit and sales growth for the first time in five quarters. Cisco (CSCO) said it earned 40 cents a share minus items for its fiscal second quarter ended Jan. 23. That’s up 25% from the year-earlier quarter and above the 35 cents expected by analysts polled by

Red Hat, VMware Give Shape To Cloud

A ton of big-name outfits are grabbing onto the trend of cloud computing, and some analysts are high on the companies that keep the cloud afloat. And in the cloud infrastructure game, analysts often point to two vendors Red Hat (RHT) and VMware (VMW). The underpinnings of cloud computing are the open-source Linux operating system and virtualization software the main strengths of Red Hat and VMware, respectively. “We like being an arms dealer