Sometimes you have to make painful decisions in order to survive. Charlie Kindel, who runs the Windows Phone 7 developer ecosystem at Microsoft, likens the company’s mobile makeover to the true story told in the 2010 film 127 Hours about an American mountain climber who gets trapped by a boulder and saves his own life by amputating his lower right arm with a dull knife.

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Once again, politics torpedoed two emerging markets’ telecom behemoths from walking down the aisle. The proposed $24 billion deal between India’s largest mobile player Bharti Airtel and South Africa’s flagship MTN was called off on September 30.
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