Nokia sells “well over” 1m Windows Phones, still makes “1bn loss
Nokia has announced its Q4 2011 financial results, and the large news is Windows Phone sales: “well over 1 million Lumia devices to date” the Finnish company claims. Still, strong out-the-gate demand for the Lumia 800 and Lumia 710 weren’t enough to show Nokia’s ailing books around: the corporate recorded a “954m (.25bn) profit loss in Q4 2011, bringing the ultimate 2011 tally to a “1.073bn (.4bn) loss, down 43-percent year-on-year. Overall sales of devices were down 29-percent year-on-year, with “smart device” shipments right down to 19.6m units from 28.6m a year ago. Gross margin on smartphones also dived, from 28.7-percent to 19.9-percent, though Nokia did at the very least curtail its smartphone expenses by over “150m. “In the war of ecosystems, clearly there are some strong contenders already at the field. And with Lumia, now we have demonstrated that we belong at the field. Our specific intent have been to determine [...]
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GoodEreader.com – Still pirates, but now also liars
Back in October I wrote a post about a website that was charging a monthly subscription for access to a vast library of pirated ebooks. That site was GoodEreader.com. I’m writing a follow up post to day to tell you that not only are they still pirates, they’re also liars
Shortly after I wrote that post I got an email from the pirates. They tried to convince me that they had reformed. The email claimed thqat the piracy was all on the part of one forum admin, and that the rest of the team had fired the admin and GoodEreader.com had gone straight.
This is a lie, and I can prove it.
A few days ago GoodEreader.com started trying to get a thread over on MobileRead deleted – a thread which discussed their piracy. They made the usual claims about having cleaned up their act, and they started bugging the MR staff to delete the thread.
MR have a policy against removing content, so it wasn’t going to happen. But I soft deleted my post on this blog. I really thought they had changed.
Unfortunately for them, someone pointed me at their new pirate site EbookNovel.com, and I learned that they’re not just lying pirates, but incompetent ones, too. You see, both sites accept money through Paypal. GoodEreader.com offer tech support and other services, and EbookNovel.com collect a monthly membership fee.
Payments for both sites go to the same company on Paypal, Starbreeze Media. Oh, and back in October I also paid this same company for a 1 month membership fee.
Idiots.
That was their one chance to prove they’d gone straight. Now that I know they will lie to protect their crimes, I know better than to ever believe anything they say.
P.S. Some might wonder why I single this pirate site out, given that I am otherwise ambivalent to piracy. The answer is simple. This is a large scale commercial pirate website. Money spent here isn’t going to creators, which puts this site in a special category (apart from everyone who just gives it away).
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