Nokia to acquire mobile analytics firm ‘Motally’
Nokia has inked a contract to acquire Motally, a privately owned U.S. company that has specialized in tracking and reporting usage statistics on mobile websites and applications.
The service is set to be adapted for Qt, Symbian, Meego and Java developers, and Nokia plans to continue serving Motally’s existing customer base.
Nokia hasn’t disclosed the dealing with Motally, but the transaction is expected to close before the end of the third quarter.
Nokia, Intel team up to create mobile interface lab
Nokia and Intel have created the ‘Intel and Nokia Joint Innovation Center’, which will focus on developing 3D graphical interfaces for mobile phones. The services will take place at University of Oulu.
The two companies, with their new R&D lab are aspiring to capitalize on future advancements in mobile processing and graphics power.
According to Rich Green, Nokia’s chief technology officer, the new joint laboratory with Intel draws on the Oulu research community’s 3D interface expertise and over time will lay down some important foundations for future mobile experiences.
According to Intel, the work at the centre will be associated with the MeeGo open source device platform, jointly created with Nokia, which provides the greatest flexibility for developing new 3D experiences on mobile devices.
Nokia first device for new OS failed to be launched
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: MeeGo, the Nokia/Intel operating system has been now available for download to netbooks but it is unavailable as an update for Nokia’s N900 device, which runs MeeGo’s predecessor Maemo. The first MeeGo gadgets look set to be netbooks and it has merged Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo into a single open source, Linux-based platform. It has been geared mainly to hybrid mobile internet devices that sit between phones and PCs.
This new breed of highly web-oriented OSS promise optimized support for browser/cloud services and a simplified internet experience besides taking on Google Chrome OS and HP webOS, among others. MeeGo is expected to debut on a new Nokia product, a successor for N900, later in the year while the company has released new firmware for the N900, in the shape of Maemo 5/PR1.2. Release 1.0 is now available for netbooks and for smartphones but the latter will definitely have a head start.
Support for video chat with Skype, SIP or Google Talk, and a Facebook chat in the IM client are included in the enhancements for Maemo along with QT4.6, the standard graphics library for MeeGo. Other features of the OSS are improved user interface for Ovi Maps, a modified virtual keyboard and email client, and the browser can now display web pages in portrait mode.
According to the company, it knew some users would be disappointed, but insisted that it is really about ensuring that they have the best possible experience designed for the features on their Nokia N900 device. N8 will be the next high profile device launch from Nokia which will not run MeeGo but the first open source release of the revamped Symbian platform Symbian^3.
Significant amount of effort and resource have been put in by the Symbian Foundation’s development for release 3, the N8 may not get to claim the prize as the first handset to run the OS. LG, Huawei and Sharp are some of the other Asian manufacturers working on Symbian^3 models. Meanwhile, Nokia has announced that the launch of the N8 will be delayed by a month or more.
Orange partners Intel on MeeGo device support
www.WirelessFederation.com/news: To develop support for mobile data services on devices running the MeeGo software, Orange and Intel has agreed to work together wherein Orange will use Intel Atom processors. The announcement has been made by MeeGo which is a Linux platform built around Intel’s Moblin and Nokia’s Maemo systems.
According to both the companies, they will work together to increase the availability of Orange Signature Services, such as Orange TV and Orange Maps, on devices running MeeGo.
