Nokia's already done quite a bit to cut ties with last year's big push for Symbian and Qt development, though this is perhaps the biggest step yet. The Finnish company has announced it's transferring responsibility for Symbian growth to consulting and outsourcing firm Accenture, which sounds odd given the latter outfit's inexperience in conveyance mobile OS updates, but the good news is that the 3,000 devs Nokia had working on Symbian will resume their jobs under the new employer. That fundamentally means that Nokia will live up to its unhappy promise that there'll be "substantial reductions in employment" within its own ranks, while still keeping the men and women responsibility for updating Symbian employed. Unfortunately, there will still be a further 4,000 job cuts in the company's global workforce, largely in Finland, Denmark and the UK, which will "occur in phases" between the beginning and end of next year. Nokia's agreement with Accenture also involves continued enable team collaborationwww.socialtext.com
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