India is Nokia's market

India has overtaken the US to become Nokia's second-largest market in terms of sales, reports BBC News.

Chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo made the comment on a visit to India to meet officials, suppliers and clients. Nokia had expected India to overtake the US as its second biggest sales market after China by 2010.

The company's focus has shifted in recent years to fast-growing emerging markets such as India, which had a total of 118 million mobile users by July.

Dell has regained a healthy chunk of the server market, according to IDC analysts, suggesting "the new Dell" push has taken a foothold, reports the Register.

The company's revenue for Q2 jumped a little over 20% compared with Q2 last year. At its current rate of growth, it could soon rival Sun for the number three spot on the server charts. However, IBM and HP still dominate.

Overall, Q2 revenue for worldwide server sales grew 6.3% over last year to $13.1 billion. According to IDC, it marks the best performing Q2 since the market peaked in 2000.

In an effort to capitalise on the Java brand, server and software company Sun Microsystems will change its stock ticker from SUNW to JAVA next week, reports News.com.

Sun is making the shift because Java has far greater brand awareness than the company's name, said CEO Jonathan Schwartz in his blog yesterday. The current symbol, which stands for Stanford University Network Workstation, reflects the company's origins, he said.

The company estimates a billion consumers recognise Java's steaming coffee cup symbol.

After months of negotiations with SoundExchange, the record industry's royalty-collection agency, small Internet radio stations say the group's compromise offer is unacceptable, reports ZDNet.

Under the latest proposal, small Webcasters with earnings of less than $1.25 million a year could pay a cut of annual revenue in royalties, rather than the per-song, per-listener scheme that the Copyright Royalty Board imposed on the industry.

However, the small Webcasters say the offer is a "divide and conquer" strategy designed to destroy the nascent industry's bargaining power. "This would be a huge step backwards for us," said Bill Goldsmith of RadioParadise.com.