Nokia, Siemens to merge phone equipment units
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Nokia and Siemens have  agreed to combine the bulk of their telecom equipment  businesses to create one of the biggest players in the  industry, sending shares in both firms higher.
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AMSTERDAM The mobile phone giants Vodafone and Nokia teamed up on Thursday to simplify cellphone software written with the Java computer language.
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InfoWorld - Ahead of its planned launch next month,&#160;the new venture between Nokia and Siemens&#160;presented a product roadmap on the opening day of the&#160;3GSM World Congress in Barcelona&#160;that shows a strong focus on networking technologies based on IP.
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Sprint and Nextel announced plans to merge Wednesday, creating a new wireless phone power with about 35 million customers, enough to make it No.
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"Due to market changes and increasing requirements for cost-effectiveness, production of mobile devices in Germany is no longer feasible for Nokia"  Finnish phone maker Nokia Corp. said Tuesday it will close a manufacturing plant and automotive supply unit in Bochum, Germany, and was in talks to sell a research and development unit in Bochum to Sasken ... via SanLuisObispo.com
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The German state of North  Rhine-Westphalia and Nokia (NOK1V.HE) (NOK1V.HE) will seek  "innovative solutions" for a plant that the Finnish mobile  phone group plans to close to cut costs, the state said on  Monday.
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Nokia Corp., the world&#39;s largest mobile phone maker, plans to bring 40 new handsets to the market next year as it seeks to expand its already dominant market share amid increased competition from rivals Motorola Inc.
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Nokia, the world's largest cellphone  maker, unveiled on Monday four new multimedia phone models,  including successors to its top N95 and N73 models.
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(InfoWorld) - NokiaÂ is enlisting systems integrators and value-added resellers in its drive to deliver more complete mobile systems to enterprises. The Nokia for Business Channel Program follows the mobile phone giant's expansion of its enterprise product line through the acquisition of Intellisync last year. Nokia has long sold security products through enterprise channels and its handsets through mobile operators and retail stores. The company announced Thursday it is expanding its business offerings with more mobile communications and IP (Internet Protocol) telephony products, including e-mail, device management and file synchronization products. Nokia got some channel partners through the Intellisync acquisition, but it wants to add more partners and make sure they are all qualified. The entry of more channel partners will give enterprises greater choice in whom to buy Nokia products from, said Mary McDowell, executive vice president and general manager of the company's enterprise solutions business. The partners can also deliver the type of support that enterprises are used to getting with complex systems, she said. Nokia wants to expand its enterprise scope beyond smartphones and e-mail to more complete mobility offerings supporting office phone systems and a variety of applications for use on the road. For example, it has partnerships with several vendorsÂ to make business-class eSeries Nokia phones work with those vendors' office phone systems. When an enterprise buys a set of handsets along with a service such as mobile e-mail, it's much more complicated than just getting phones and a calling plan, McDowell said. There is a server and software to install and integrate into the organization's security infrastructure, and a need for long-term IT support. Nokia wants systems integrators and resellers to fill that void. As part of its program, Nokia will train and certify channel partners and offer them incentives that are tied in part to how much help they give enterprises setting up new systems. The program will have three tracks. Mobility partners will be able to sell Intellisync Mobile Suite and other software for functions such as device management. Security partners will be licensed to resell firewall, IP VPN (virtual private network), intrusion prevention and other products. Voice partners will sell Nokia's enterprise voice systems. All the partners will be licensed to sell Nokia's eSeries business handsets, although Nokia expects most of its handset sales to continue going through operators and retail stores. Nokia will encourage partners to specialize in more than one track. There will also be two levels of certification, Authorized and Expert, with different levels of training provided by Nokia. The partners will get products through Nokia's authorized distributors. The Finnish mobile giant made the right decision to expand its channel instead of trying to build its own sales force, which is expensive and time-consuming, said Gartner Inc. wireless analyst Michael King. He applauded one feature of the program, a mechanism for enterprises to tell Nokia how good a job the systems integrator or reseller they are working with is doing. It's rare for a vendor to have this type of check on its channel partners, he said. Â
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(InfoWorld) - Ahead of its planned launch next month,Â the new venture between Nokia and SiemensÂ presented a product roadmap on the opening day of theÂ 3GSM World Congress in BarcelonaÂ that shows a strong focus on networking technologies based on IP. Admitting that the mobile phone industry may have overhyped its 3GÂ technology and missed the opportunity to connect with the world of IP, Simon Beresford-Wylie, designated chief executive of Nokia Siemens Networks, said at a news conference that "there is only one Internet, and I think we misunderstood this as a sector." Before joining Nokia, Beresford-Wylie was CEO of the Indian mobile operator Modi Telstra. The joint venture between the former German and Finnish rivals will have a combined customer base of around 600 companies with half of them mobile operators and the other half fixed-line operators, according to Beresford-Wylie. The launch of the new company has been pushed back a couple of times as the result of a corruption probe against executives at Siemens' networking division over accusations of bribes offered to secure business. Beresford-Wylie expects the venture to launch next month. "We were ready, and we still are ready to roll on day one," he said. The decision to merge networking operations was prompted by consolidation in the sector, in particular the launch ofÂ Alcatel-Lucent. Opportunity abounds, according to Beresford-Wylie. The number of people connected to the Internet with broadband connections -- both wireless and wireline -- will increase from 2.5 billion in 2006 to 5 billion in 2015, he said. The CEO designate also predicted that the rise of HDTVÂ and IPTV (Internet Protocol television) would lead to a hundred-fold increase in data traffic by 2015, ballooning at a rate of between 60 percent every year. These services will create demand for gigabyte-per-second connections for individual users. Nokia Siemens Networks will provide a range of products including mobile WCDMA (wideband code division multiplex access) and wireless WiMAX infrastructure systems, broadband access and, in particular, IP technology. But Beresford-Wylie was quick to point out that Nokia Siemens Networks intends to move away from being a "box provider" to a supplier of "managed solutions." The company's service portfolio will include applications and content management as well as consulting and systems integration.
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Nokia and Microsoft, which have a history as rivals, have decided to work together when it comes to mobile music.
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, has signed an agreement to acquire Germany's mobile mapping and navigation equipment producer, gate5, for an undislosed sum.
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Germany's Siemens has agreed to collaborate with Microsoft on a next-generation communication and entertainment system.
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The alleged bribery scandal surrounding the German conglomerate Siemens may scupper a planned tie-up with Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia, according to a German newspaper report.
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Nokia , the world's largest  cellphone maker, unveiled four new multimedia phone models on  Monday, including successors to its top N95 and N73 models.
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BusinessWeek Online - The Finnish cell phone heavyweight Nokia  said Nov. 28 that it's expecting lower profit margins during the coming years as it starts up a new joint venture with Germany's Siemens . But Nokia is also victim to global trends affecting other cell phone companies.
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HELSINKI: Nokia, the world&#39;s largest mobile phone maker, plans to bring 40 new handsets to the market next year as it seeks to expand its already dominant market share amid increased competition from rivals Motorola, Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson.