![]() On Monday technology analyst Adnaan Ahmad of Berenberg Bank in Hamburg wrote an open letter to Nokia in the Financial Times, urging new CEO Stephen Elop to form an alliance with Microsoft to put Windows Phone 7 on Nokia smartphones. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop Image by AFP via they were down slightly in Europe this morning, shares of Nokia have been rising for the last four days following speculation that the company is set to announce an alliance with Microsoft to help revive its flagging prospects for selling phones in the United States. Meanwhile researchers at the OECD have calculated that Egypt's five-day Internet blackout cost the country's economy $90 million, although the true figure may be much higher when considering e-commerce, companies that rely on the Internet to work, outsourcing services and future loss of investment. But Egyptian authorities appear to have opened the networks briefly at times to send pro-government texts, according to the Wall Street Journal. Vodafone says it was simply following local law, since the government had invoked emergency powers under Egypt's Telecom Act to send the texts. The British network operator said the text-messaging capability of it and other mobile operators in Egypt has been shut down since mass protests began late last week. Vodafone and France Telecom have been getting flack for caving into pressure from the Egyptian government to disconnect their networks in the country last week and for facilitating the sending of pro-government text messages to demonstrators.
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