The company began to lose revenue has been particularly active at the end of the year, when it was sold only 19.6 million units of smartphones, and 93.9 million phones. These figures show that sales of smart phones dropped by 31%. Nevertheless, the head of Nokia Ilop Stephen declares that such financial results are expected and not a sign of having problems.

Currently, the company is doing great changes, it works for the future, which will return loss. In particular, about a year ago signed a contract with Microsoft, under which started production of smart phones based on WP7. Only in the transition to the new OS company paid 180 million euros. New models Lumia Lumia 800 and 710 went on sale in late 2011, so do not have time to seriously affect the financial results. Current year, according to the company, promises to be more successful. However, independent experts are less optimistic in their forecasts.

They cite statistics according to which for two months sales of Nokia was able to realize only one million new smartphones at the time, as one of its competitors – Apple – for the same period has sold 37.04 million units iPhone.

Google counts the arrival of Greene’s ten board members. After the trio Larry Page, Eric Schmidt and Sergey Brin are also including Paul Otellini, CEO of Intel, and several leaders of universities in the council.

“Google is a value to society because of his endless focus to improving the lives of the pioneer users of technology. And it is both an extraordinary growing company, “Greene said in a statement. “It’s incredibly exciting to have the chance to support this as a board.”

Greene was 56 and in 1998 co-founder of VMware. From 1998 to 2008 she was general manager of virtualization company. In terms of training, she has a master’s degree in naval architecture and computer science and a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering.

Intel at CES launched the first wave of this ultra-extreme, major PC makers have to respond, launched their ultra-thin products. Intel promised, this year there will be a second wave of this wave of super-pole, then the price will decline, but also a new generation of Windows 8 operating system and the Ivy Bridge processors.

Since starting at about $ 800 over the current very difficult to mainstream the price of user acceptance. Intel plans to end the price down to $ 699, which makes potential buyers even more reason to wait. In addition, potential buyers are not optimistic about the Windows 7 operating system, want to wait for Windows 8 to take advantage of the introduction of the ultra-extreme Tablet PC with similar functionality.

The use of ultra-extreme Intel notebook market planning for the new direction of development, these slim-line equipment with all-weather, long battery life and Quick Start function. Intel said that in 2012 there will be more than 75 models over most of the market, will be released later this year with Tablet PC features a number of hybrid products. Intel promises over most of the second generation will be equipped with better performance of the Ivy Bridge processor, touch screen, and with Apple Siri similar voice recognition technology.

U.S. market research firm J. Gold Associates Principal Analyst Jack Gould that, because prices will fall, will also enhance the function, so the consumer will certainly continue to wait. “If you can wait until the second half of 2012, certainly will be able to spend less money to get more features.” He said.

Gould said that with the more extreme the super market, coupled with high-end from the mainstream notebook and Tablet PC competition, at the end of the price could fall.