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Nokia acquires Symbian Limited (Finland)

  • December 3rd, 2008
  • 8:50 am

Nokia Corp has announced that it has completed its offer to acquire Symbian Limited. All conditions to Nokia’s offer to acquire Symbian Limited have been satisfied and it has received valid acceptance of greater than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own. Symbian is the software company that develops and licenses Symbian OS, the market-leading open operating system for mobile devices.
The closing of the offer is a fundamental step in the establishment of the Symbian Foundation, announced on June 24, 2008 by Nokia, together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DoCoMo, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, ST-NXP Wireless, Texas Instruments and Vodafone. All Symbian employees are planned to become Nokia employees on February 1, 2009.

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Nokia is the world leader in mobility, driving the transformation and growth of the converging Internet and communications industries. We make a wide range of mobile devices with services and software that enable people to experience music, navigation, video, television, imaging, games, business mobility and more. Developing and growing our offering of consumer Internet services, as well as our enterprise solutions and software, is a key area of focus. We also provide equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.
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Microsoft & LG in a mobile collaboration deal (South Korea)

  • November 3rd, 2008
  • 10:23 am

Microsoft and LG Electronics have inked a preliminary agreement on strategic collaboration in mobile technology. “The agreement ensures continued strategic collaboration in R&D, marketing, applications, and services in the field of converged mobile devices,” LG said. While, LG’s home market rival Samsung Electronics have also launched the domestic version of the Omnia touch screen handset model, based on Microsoft’s Windows Mobile 6.1 operating system. Samsung said, the model will be available from mid-November under an exclusive deal with No. 1 mobile operator SK Telecom.

Microsoft is anticipating that its Windows Mobile operating system can continue to give competition to Symbian, a platform backed by the world’s top mobile phone maker Nokia and used in two-thirds of smartphones - mobile handsets with computer-like capabilities.
Research in Motion and Apple’s iPhone racing to threat Symbian, while several manufacturers are planning or have started to roll out smartphones based on Google’s Android software. Both LG and Samsung are members of the Symbian Foundation and are also developing models based on Android.

3G mobile phone prices to be halved (India)

  • August 7th, 2008
  • 6:37 am

Mobile phone manufacturers are all bracing up to offer 3G enabled mobile phones at lowered prices. This is all due to cut throat competition among the mobile phone makers as the 3G service market is booming providing high-speed downloads of data, movies and videos.

AT&T offers MediaFlo - TV services for mobile phones (US)

  • July 21st, 2008
  • 7:18 am

AT&T offers MediaFlo TV, a cellphone television service, in an effort to gain additional revenue share from mobile devices.   

It is a brand new service on a brand new network, and two brand new devices. The service is offered to AT&T customers using the Vu phone from LG Electronics and the Access from Samsung Electronics.

This service offers everything from music to Web surfing to improve its revenue as mobile phone call prices drop.The AT&T MediaFlo content will include full-length shows from CBS, Comedy Central, ESPN Mobile TV, Fox, MTV, NBC 2GO, NBC News2Go and Nickelodeon.