Microsoft's new smartphone platform is off to what could be considered a slower start than expected in North America. That's according to The Street, which has released a report saying that the company sold some 40,000 units on its first day on the market.
That number does not come from Microsoft, which has not yet released sales numbers and refused to comment to both
The Street and
ZDNet Asia's sister site,
CNET, but rather a source in a market research firm.
Windows Phone 7, which is the follow-up to Microsoft's
Windows Mobile 6.5 platform, hit shelves in the
United States and Canada last week. Before that,
WP7 devices had come to stores in Europe, Australia, and New Zealand in late October.
CNET hoofed it to two major carrier stores in San Francisco on launch day and came back with the
Norwegian aid disbursed amounted to one billion dollars to rescue the forests and peat lands in Indonesia. Indonesia agreed to a moratorium on natural forest protection and turf for two years. The signing of new agreements for forest conservation project was witnessed by President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono and Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
Agreement in protecting degraded forests in Indonesia is a follow climate talks, business-related reduction of greenhouse gas emissions that cause global warming due to deforestation. Funds amounting to 1 billion U.S. dollars from Norway will be used for forest monitoring system and a pilot project under the auspices of the UN scheme to climate change, called REDD, or reduced emissions from deforestation and forest degradation. REDD scheme allows developing countries to earn money, provided 
