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Sony Ericsson announces new Head of Operations

London, UK – Sony Ericsson today announced that Tommi Laine-Ylijoki has joined the company as Corporate Vice President and Head of Operations, reporting to President and CEO Bert Nordberg. Tommi Laine-Ylijoki joins Sony Ericsson from Nokia Oyj where he was Vice President, Materials Management.

Tommi Laine-Ylijoki has more than 17 years of experience working at Nokia in Finland. Over the years he has worked in the areas of research in microelectronics, operations capacity management, direct sourcing and supply chain. In his last position at Nokia, as Vice President, Materials Management, he was responsible for all operational inbound supply-related activities for the company, working in both the Operations and Sourcing organisations.

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Sony Ericsson today launches a worldwide Facebook competition aimed at finding the ultimate reviewer

• Fans given the exclusive opportunity to review one of Sony Ericsson’s two latest additions before their official launches

London, UK: Sony Ericsson is today launching a competition to find the best reviewer of one of its two new feature phones. Reaching out to a Facebook fanbase of over 4.5 million, entrants will be asked to first answer a simple question then explain why they should get the chance to be the first to review one of them. 12 lucky fans will then receive a phone and be asked to design an entertaining 45 second video review. 4 of the best video reviews will then be featured on Facebook where other fans will vote for their favourite. The review that receives the most ‘likes’ will then receive the grand prize – a set of 10 more for their family and friends.

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Sony Ericsson announces resolution of trademark litigation initiated against Clearwire Corporation

London – Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB and its U.S. subsidiary Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications (USA) Inc. are pleased to announce the resolution by agreement of trademark litigation initiated against Clearwire Corporation and its primary operating subsidiary Clearwire Communications LLC.

The litigation concerned Sony Ericsson’s contention that Clearwire was using logos which infringed upon and were confusingly similar to Sony Ericsson’s registered trademark – the logo used on every Sony Ericsson mobile phone.

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