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Nokia has been fined by Australia's government for sending unsolicited SMS marketing to its customers without offering an opt-out.

Nokia may have fumbled their way to smartphone irrelevance in recent years, but that doesn't mean they still can't make us drool over their other hardware.

Klas Strom, Nokia’s marketing manager for Nokia N9 has insisted on reassuring potential customers that the company will support MeeGo in the future.

MeeGo: We're still here, no matter what Microsoft and Nokia may be saying...

Nokia CEO Stephen Elop: "There are now over 200 different tablets on the marketplace, only one of them is doing really well.

And, my challenge to the team is I don’t want to be the 201st tablet on the market that you can’t tell from all of the others.

We have to take a uniquely Nokia prospective.”

In the wake of the agreement, Microsoft and Nokia plan to make the Windows Phone developer registration "free for all published Nokia developers" in the first year.

Nokia Blog: "We have been working hard to turn most Symbian Foundation era materials into the new framework – for example, checking ownerships and use of rights for masses of documents – and are proud to announce that almost all of the source code is now uploaded to collab.symbian.nokia.com."

IT World: "Even though I understood that this was not going to be some sort of fork, and that Nokia said they were committed to Qt development, I could not understand how or why Nokia would continue to remain involved in Qt development for the long-term."

Semi-Accurate: "THE BIGGEST LOSER in the tie up between Microsoft and Nokia is none other than Intel. While they may try to put a brave face on the matter, the simple fact remains that their Atom line is now without a future."

Phoronix: "While Nokia has effectively abandoned the MeeGo Linux operating system, Intel is still supporting MeeGo along with AMD and other vendors, including SplashTop.

SplashTop has today announced the release of their MeeGo-based operating system."