The bad news from Nokias camp just keep on coming in. First the Finns announced they are letting Vertu go, and now they have issued a press release stating the company will be sharpening its strategy by adding 10,000 lay-offs.



The staff reduction is due to several factory closings in Canada, Germany and Finland, and is planned to happen before the end of next year. Furthermore, three key executives will also be waving a last goodbye to Nokia.

Those are the chief marketing officer Jerry Devard, the executive VP of mobile phones Mary McDowell as well as the executive VP of markets Niklas Savander. All of them will leave Nokia come June 30. Their places will be filled in by Timo Toikanen, executive VP of mobile phones and Chris Weber, executive VP of marketing and sales, as well as senior VP of communications Susan Sheehan on July 1.

Also, Nokia emphasizes its ongoing push of Series 40 and Series 30 devices to developing markets in its goal to reach the next billion internet users.

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Today Apple released its first update to Mac OS X Lion: 10.7.1. You can read a little about it on Apples site. If youre on Lion already, this update is a must. Here, 10.7.1 runs in glorious silence, quite a difference from my Macs "roaring" (get it? Lion? Roaring?) fans under the initial 10.7.0. Thats a big plus.

Its likely that Apple was working on this update even before Lions initial availability, which means that much of 10.7.1s improvements is stuff that Apple already knew about. And that means that bugs that were found after Lions release could still be present-- but Id expect a lot of them to be fixed in 10.7.2.

If youre on 10.7, Step One is be absolutely positive that you have a current backup. You can go to Time Machines menu and tell it to "Back Up Now" (thats what I did). Step Two is get 10.7.1 via Software Update under the Apple menu. Step Three is restart, which the Installer will insist upon. You might get some disk activity and fan noise immediately after the restart, but it ought to go away in time. You can restart again after that and from then on it ought to be smooth sailing.

You can probably tell that I am not keen on Lion. I prefer Snow Leopard for several reasons, some of which I will write about someday soon. But, if youre already on Lion, youll be happier after installing the 10.7.1 update. Just be sure you have that backup, just in case.

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