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Is this Nokia's Sabre Windows phone?

A photo that purportedly shows one of Nokia's upcoming Windows Phone blowers has popped up online, as well as a few tentative specs for the make-or-break mobile.

That phone in the blurry photo is the Sabre, according to Pocketnow. Running Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system, the site's sources reckon it's packing a powerful 1.4GHz processor with a hefty 1GB of RAM--this Sabre is likely to leave you thoroughly rattled.

Read more of "Nokia Sabre Windows Phone looks sharp in leaked snap" at Crave UK. … Read more

Nokia to unveil first Windows phone this quarter

Nokia is promising to launch its first Windows Phone during the current quarter.

CEO Stephen Elop made the announcement yesterday at a technology event in the company's home base of Helsinki, Finland, according to Reuters and other news sources. Nokia has been eyeing a 2011 launch for its first Windows Phone devices since this summer, so it has little choice but to hit the market this quarter to reach that goal.

The first handset could come as early as the end of this month to coincide with the Nokia World trade show taking place in London on October 26 … Read more

Buick will play up mid-sized LaCrosse

DETROIT -- The future sweet spot for Buick's car line will be the mid-sized segment, the top executive for General Motors' Buick-Pontiac-GMC sales channel says.

The full-sized-car segment "has declined 35 percent this calendar year. Bringing more entries into a declining segment wouldn't necessarily be smart," said Susan Docherty, vice president of Buick-Pontiac-GMC.

Sales of the full-sized Lucerne totaled 50,799 in first 11 months of this year, a 34.1 percent drop from the year-ago period.

Buick's spotlight on the car side will be aimed at the redesigned, mid-sized 2010 LaCrosse, which debuts next … Read more

Travelocity takes flight by standardizing on Red Hat

With over 9,000 employees and over $3 billion in annual revenue, Sabre Holdings is a customer worth having. It is, however, also a very demanding company: with websites Travelocity.com, Lastminute.com, and others, even a little downtime costs the company tens of millions of dollars.

It is therefore instructive that Sabre Holdings has decided to standardize on Red Hat Enterprise Linux, dumping the proprietary Unix systems it had been using. In case someone within your organization makes the suggestion that open source can't deliver best-in-class performance, you might want to refer them to this statement by Robert … Read more