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Nokia could soon be the largest maker of mobile phone network equipment in the world ahead of Ericsson and Huawei. It just acquired French telecom equipment maker Alcatel-Lucent for 15.6 billion euros ($16.6 billion), or more than double the $7 billion Microsoft paid for its Windows Phone handset arm. The Finnish company also acquired Alcatel-Lucent's famous Bell Laboratories (established by Alexander Graham Bell in 1880) along with its numerous patents. Nokia won't be jumping into the Android business. Alcatel Mobile Phones (which makes the OneTouch and other devices) was originally a joint venture between Alcatel-Lucent and China's TCL -- and it's now 100 percent owned by TCL. Also, Nokia took pains to point out that while the merged business would be headquartered in Finland, France will remain "a vibrant center of the combined company Nokia said it may also sell off its Here mapping division to focus on the network business, but would only do it if the price was right. It was reportedly considering a sale to a German automaker consortium and even Uber, source : http://www.engadget.com/2015/04/15/nokia-just-bought-alcatel-lucent-for-16-6-billion/

Microsoft has released version 1.0 of its Node.js Tools for Visual Studio (NTVS). The open-source extension for Visual Studio 2012 and 2013 turns Microsoft’s development environment into a Node.js IDE. NTVS has been in development for more than a year. Sara Itani, Node.js Tools for Visual Studio software engineer, detailed the NTVS 1.0 features in a blog post, drawing particular attention to IntelliSense editing and code completions. “Code completions? For a dynamically typed language? Yep, you heard us right,” wrote Itani. “NTVS will statically analyze your project to provide you with syntactically correct code completions for your Node.js code and packages.” NTVS supports syntax highlighting and code folding, including brace-completion, automatic formatting and F12 Go To Definition. Other features in NTVS 1.0 include: Interactive Window (REPL) npm integration Advanced debugging and profiling Test explorer integration for unit testing Full integration with other Visual Studio features, including TypeScript, Git/TFS and Azure js, io.js, JavaScript, TypeScript, HT DOWNLOAD https://nodejstools.codeplex.com/

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