HELSINKI (Reuters) – The world’s top cellphone maker, Nokia, plans to install Linux software on just one new smartphone next year, a source with direct knowledge of Nokia’s product roadmap told Reuters.
A Nokia spokesman said the company does not comment on future product plans.
Nokia’s Linux Maemo operating system is seen as a key for the [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Holiday shoppers in the United States spent some $595 million online on Black Friday, up 11 percent from last year, with Amazon.com and Walmart.com the most visited sites, according to analytics firm comScore.
Visits to Amazon.com (AMZN.O) rose 28 percent, followed by the online unit of Wal-Mart Stores Inc (WMT.N), which grew [...]

By Tarmo Virki
HELSINKI (Reuters) – In the chill of a massive cave beneath an orthodox Christian cathedral, a city power firm is preparing what it thinks will be the greenest data center on the planet.
Excess heat from hundreds of computer servers to be located in the bedrock beneath Uspenski Cathedral, one of Helsinki’s most popular [...]

By Tarmo Virki, European technology correspondent
HELSINKI (Reuters) – Nokia Oyj plans to install Linux software on just one new smartphone next year, a source told Reuters on Monday, dampening prospects of a quick makeover of the Finnish group’s struggling product line-up.
But a spokesman said the world’s biggest handset maker had no plans to sell its [...]

By Nicole Maestri
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Before deciding where to buy a laptop for his daughter on Black Friday, Nate Bryan was scouring the web for deals. But he was not just looking at retailers’ websites.
“I use Twitter and Facebook a lot for Black Friday,” he said, referring to the day after Thanksgiving when retailers [...]

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Barnes & Noble Inc (BKS.N) said on Sunday it would delay shipments of its newly launched Nook electronic reader to stores as the company strives to deliver preordered devices to consumers before the holidays.
“We expect to have them in our highest-volume stores on December 7th and in a very limited number,” [...]

SEOUL (Reuters) – Samsung Electronics (005930.KS), the world’s No. 2 mobile phone maker, gave an upbeat forecast for 2009 mobile phone sales due to sharp growth in touchscreen models, but surging sales may not guarantee higher margins.
Growing competition for market share could put Samsung under pressure to lower prices in the high-margin touchscreen phones, with [...]

By Nicole Maestri
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Before deciding where to buy a laptop for his daughter on Black Friday, Nate Bryan was scouring the web for deals. But he was not just looking at retailers’ websites.
“I use Twitter and Facebook a lot for Black Friday,” he said, referring to the day after Thanksgiving when retailers [...]

HELSINKI (Reuters) – Ailing telecom equipment maker Nokia Siemens Networks has changed its business focus to increasing its market share, the new chief executive of the venture was quoted as saying on Sunday.
“In early 2008 we made a strategic decision to focus more on cash flow and profitability than on the market share. Now it’s [...]

By Nicole Maestri
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – Before deciding where to buy a laptop for his daughter on Black Friday, Nate Bryan was scouring the web for deals. But he was not just looking at retailers’ websites.
“I use Twitter and Facebook a lot for Black Friday,” he said, referring to the day after Thanksgiving when retailers [...]