Microsoft names veteran executive to head Office division

Nokia, battling to regain its dominance of the moblie phone handset market, replaces its chief executive, tapping a senior Microsoft executive to run the Finnish telecommunications equipment giant.Nokia named senior Microsoft executive, Stephen Elop, as its new chief executive and president, in place of Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo.The company, once the undisputed ruler of the mobile phone market, has had its considerable lead in the smartphone market pecked away by Apple's iPhone, RIM's Blackberry and Google's Android operating platform.

By 2010-10-01T16:27:51Z REDMOND, Wash. (AP) -- Microsoft has picked an insider with engineering expertise to head up its Office division. Kurt DelBene fills a spot left vacant when the most recent president left to become Nokia's CEO....

Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia appoints Microsoft business manager Stephen Elop as its new head after a profits slump.

Troubled mobile phone giant Nokia on Tuesday declared that a "new season" had begun for the firm as it struggles to protect market share from rivals like Apple and Samsung.Nokia chief executive Stephen Elop said at a regional telecoms fair in Singapore that the Finnish company was making good on promises to overhaul operations in what was once the industry's undisputed champion.

French videogame star Ubisoft is showing off its moves with titles that capitalize on Kinect motion-sensing Xbox 360 console controllers set to debut in November.Ubisoft gave the press a preview of its Kinect line-up at a San Francisco event where executives envisioned becoming the top third-party developer of titles for Microsoft's gesture-guided Xbox 360 control system."Kinect leapfrogs interactivity from what we have seen so far," said Ubisoft North America president Laurent Detoc. "Ubisoft is well position to be the leader in that space."