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<title><![CDATA[Symbian is here to stay, says Nokia]]></title>
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<pubDate>Wed, 23 Feb 2011 08:10:54 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[ Nokia stalwart Symbian isn't quite making its exit yet even though the world's largest phone maker is switching to Microsoft's Windows Phone 7 as its primary smartphone platform. The Nokia E7 smartphone(Credit:Nokia) &quot;Just because we're changing our direction in terms of smartphone platform, it doesn't mean that the existing platform is completely broken,&quot; said Vlasta Berka, general manager for Nokia Singapore, Malaysia, and Brunei, at the launch of the E7 smartphone in Singapore today. &quot;We still have obligations to our users, developers, business partners, and customers.&quot;  According to Nokia, there are currently 200 million Symbian users around the world. The Finnish outfit said it expects to sell about 150 million Symbian devices going forward.  &quot;Symbian is here to stay. Symbian will still be around, but it's just going to go somewhere around the corner,&quot; Berka added.  The latest E7 smartphone features a 4-inch AMOLED display, physical QWERTY keyboard, 8-megapixel camera with dual-LED flash, 16GB of onboard memory and a suite of enterprise solutions. It retails at S$989 ($774) in Singapore.  Berka also tried to allay fears that Nokia will cease support for the Symbian platform. He said over 50 improvements, from visual to performance enhancements, will be rolled out for the rest of this year.  Last week, Nokia's Chief Executive Stephen Elop noted that the Qt development environment that is used for Symbian devices would not be usable onWindows Phone 7 applications. He said this was to ensure that differing platforms don't confuse developers or consumers.  According to Gartner, Symbian's market share dropped from 46.9 percent in 2009 to 37.6 percent in 2010.  (Source: Crave Asia)<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. clean-tech investing hit $4 billion in 2010]]></title>
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<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 08:11:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<category>Eco</category>
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<description><![CDATA[Investment in clean-technology companies rose in the U.S. last year, garnering $3.98 billion in venture capital, according to a report released yesterday by the accounting firm Ernst &amp;amp' Young.The change represents an 8 percent increase in investment overall, but there was also a major shift in when companies received funding. &quot;The share of investment dollars going to second rounds increased from 18% in 2009 to 26% in 2010. Later stage deals received $2.37 billion or 62% of the money invested in this period,&quot; according to the report.  Of that $4 billion, $1.32 billion went to energy and electricity generation'$1.58 billion went to solar' and $1.24 billion went to &quot;industry products and services,&quot; which Ernst &amp;amp' Young says includes agriculture, construction, consumer products, materials, and transportation.The $1.58 billion in solar investment for 2010 represented a 77 percent increase compared with the previous year.The report notes that the change in investment in U.S. clean-tech projects overall is related to three major factors.&quot;In comparison to the early days of clean tech, the 2010 US VC investment results reflect a turning point in the industry due to improving credit and capital markets, the deployment of stimulus spending and increasing corporate clean tech adoption,&quot; Jay Spencer, Americas Cleantech Director at Ernst &amp;amp' Young, said in a statement.The report also broke down its investment analysis by area of the country. California got the most clean-tech funding out of any state. California together with the Pacific Northwest, and the Mountain region collectively scored about $2.8 billion in clean-tech venture capital funding in 2010. The Northeast, Mid-Atlantic, and South meanwhile eked out a collective total of about $626 million.As for the future of clean-tech investing, the Ernst &amp; Young report noted two possible boons that might affect the coming year. California's landmark law requiring utilities to generate 33 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020 remains in effect, and the federal government's $858 billion tax cut bill extended renewable-energy projects grants for another year.<br/><br/>0 Vote(s) ]]></description>
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