Nokia’s radical CEO has a mercenary, checkered past – Boing Boing – interesting that BoingBoing is bringing this up
Cool Infographics – Blog – The (visual) Anatomy of an Apple Email – great breakdown of Apple’s marketing emails food for email-marketing thought
Barkings!: MAC TREAT #146: Turn Your Mac’s Volume Up a “Notch” – genius
Sina Weibo Adds Voicemail Weibos and Direct Video Uploads – impressed at how Weibo is maturing in terms of its product design. I think it is ahead of Twitter in terms of usability
IAB launches social media measurement guide | News | New Media Age – should be available from IAB site
Motorola buys 3LM to make Android phones as secure as the BlackBerry | VentureBeat – RIM getting squeezed in the enterprise by Microsoft | Nokia and Motorola
Bing copies Google, again! | Econsultancy – not surprisingly
Ericsson and Akamai establish exclusive strategic alliance to create mobile cloud acceleration solutions – interesting move, but surely the problem is base-stations?
China aiming at balanced development: Q&A with Digitimes Research analyst Joanne Chien – the 12th Five-Year Plan has a few key missions: narrowing the gap between urban and rural areas, and between the rich and the poor, via urbanization projects; building up the competitiveness of key industries; creating “green” society and industries; expanding its pool of talent; and having core values take deep root. The goals are to achieve annual GDP growth of 7% throughout the five-year period, with the GDP per capita rising to US$6,500-7,000 by the end of the 12th Five-Year Plan from US$4,050 recorded at the end of the 11th Five-Year Plan. By 2015, the final consumption rate will reach 55%, up from 48.6% in 2010, and the production value of its new strategic industries will account for 8% of its GDP
Nude + Edun equals LVMH’s naked truth | FT.com – LVMH trying to CSR up its product offering; also explains why Bono appeared in the Louis Vuitton luggage print adverts recently
Here’s Why Nokia Is Still Doomed – Dan Frommer flames Nokia
How Apple Is Singlehandedly Helping Save The Japanese Economy – machine tools, lots of them
Live from ‘An Evening With Nokia’ at MWC 2011! — Engadget – Elop seems to have been given a hard time and handled it with good grace (he needs to give Carol Bartz some tips)
Five Best VPN Service Providers – handy for traveling and privacy
JCPenney Gets Caught Gaming Google | WebProNews – joins brand names like BMW (years ago) who’ve been caught out gaming the system