RecruitLoop has taken the cloud service delivery model to the Australian recruitment industry and in the process may have solved the chicken-and-egg problem that plagues start-up marketplaces often touted as the "99designs of x or y". The application was originally conceived as a suite of online tools that perform different functions in the recruitment process, such as video interviewing and candidate testing, but quickly grew in popularity with the freelance recruiter industry. Since it was launched five months ago the site has attracted over 30 recruiters and completed over 60 projects, according to co-founder Michael Overell, who said the next milestone is reaching 100 clients

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Cloud HR app solves chicken-and-egg issue

Nokia Australia today announced its "return to the Australian smartphone market", with plans to start selling the Nokia Lumia 800 in Australia in March. (Credit: Nokia) The new handset will be for sale through "Optus, Telstra, Vodafone and all major retailers", according to Nokia's press release, though pricing wasn't mentioned

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Change is never easy. Just ask Nokia, which posted its third consecutive quarter of hefty losses overnight, despite strong sales of its new Windows Phone portfolio. Nokia CEO Stephen Elop shows off the Lumia 900 at CES 2012.

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Nokia reports billion-dollar losses

Nokia has vowed to improve its SMS marketing systems after it was found to be breaching the Spam Act by sending "tips" to customers.

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Nokia connecting people to SMS spam

Apparently, Nokia isn't content with just two mobile operating systems.

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Nokia bought itself another mobile OS

Eastman Kodak is prepping for a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing that could put an interesting twist in the patent wars. According to the Wall Street Journal , Kodak is looking for US$1 billion in debtor-in possession financing, which keeps companies running in a restructuring, with the idea that it would sell its 1100 patents in an auction. In other words, Kodak is betting that it can land capital like Nortel Networks did - via a bankruptcy court auction

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Kodak eyes Chapter 11: patent sale or bust

It was an exciting year in the mobile wireless market, one full of deal making and wonderful drama. Google said it would buy Motorola's wireless division. Nokia ditched Symbian for Microsoft's Windows Phone operating system.

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Drama dominates mobile in 2011

The New South Wales Department of Education and Communities has been forced to replan a SAP migration worth over $100 million, after cost blowouts and poor planning saw the original timeline fall behind.

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NSW govt in SAP project blowout

Nokia Siemens Networks and Vodafone have started negotiations over allegations that the telco withdrew $8 million from a bond meant as a contract-based performance bonus for Nokia Siemens Networks, cancelling a directions hearing set to go before the Federal Court this morning.

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Nokia Siemens, Voda in court truce

Has Microsoft squandered the brand awareness it built at the launch of the Windows Phone platform by not releasing any Windows Phone handsets for a year?

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Where in the world are the Windows Phones?