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Duncan Beard is an integral part of Nokia’s UK & Ireland Sales team and is the Account Director for Everything Everywhere. We talked to Duncan to understand more about what he does, how he does it and what sparks his engine! Rebecca Gloyne: A quick and easy one to start with Duncan! How would you best describe yourself in 140 characters? Duncan Beard: Sure. I’m an experienced sales leader at Nokia, who is passionate about understanding, and delivering for the needs of our customers. RG: Did you intend to go into sales when you started your career? DB: Yes: I still remember seeing on my school geography report, that ‘Duncan would be better at sales than at geography’. RG: What drew you to the mobile industry? Is that original fascination still alive within you today? DB: When I moved into mobile, it was the dot.com boom and mobile industry was an incredibly exciting place to be. Right now, it’s far more exciting and the future even more so. One of the biggest changes has been speed...

Back in June, Samsung had announced that the Galaxy SIII would reach 10 million sales by July and it seems that they’ve reached that goal right on schedule. Shin Jying Kyun of Samsung has announced that the Galaxy SIII crossed the 10 million sales mark since its launch on May 29th. In comparison, it had taken the Galaxy SII almost 5 months to reach this mark. By current estimates it is believed that the sales figures for the SIII will cross 40 million by EOY 2012. The Jelly Bean update is  expected to hit this high profile handset sometime in August which should help keep sales going strong. [Via - Androinica] Dhruv Bhutani is a tech enthusiast who tries to keep a tab on the latest and greatest in the mobile and telecom sector. He is currently using an iPhone 4S and a Nokia Lumia 800. Catch him on Twitter @DhruvBhutani , you can also reach out on Facebook and Google+ View the original article here

Samsung’s newest Android flagship smartphone — the Galaxy S III — has surpassed 10 million sales in less than two months after going on sale, selling at a rate predicted by the company just last month, Samsung president Shin Jong-kyun (JK Shin) has revealed. The Samsung executive shared the milestone with Korean new agency Yonhap News (without giving exact numbers), which translates roughly into 190,000 Galaxy S III devices being sold each day and reaching the figure in less than half the time of its predecessor — the Galaxy S II. In June, Shin said that he expected the Galaxy S III to reach 10 million units sold in July, seeing an added boost as the handset went on sale in the US and other significant markets. By the end of the month, the device will be on sale via 296 carriers in 145 countries worldwide. In terms of comparative figures, the Samsung Galaxy S II chalked up 3 million pre-orders. The company recently revealed that it and predecessor the Galaxy S, have together passed 50...

Nokia’s sales offices in Chengdu and Shanghai are shutting down, Nasdaq.com has reported, Nokia transitions to a new mobile platform and a leaner corporate structure. Also, as its market share contracts, it simply has less need for its formerly fitting infrastucture. The number of layoffs that would be involved were not disclosed. Nokia recently announced, as part of a continuing string of downsizes, another 10,000 layoffs. In that round, three ‘top’ executives stepped down. Those layoffs were designed to curtail costs. Today’s news adds to the scroll of Nokia firings. Nokia previously stated that it intends to ‘invest heavily’ in research and development in the Asian market. That could imply that cuts in the region will be little more than trimmings. China’s mobile potential is massive, as TNW noted in a piece concerning Windows Phone’s slowing growing market penetration there: China is the world’s largest handset market — both in terms of shipments and new device activations — so an...