Nokia extends outsourcing deal with HP
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The deal is valued at about $100 million, but the handset maker will be billed based on actual service consumption.
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Mobile technology firm Nokia has  sealed a deal with operator Vodafone Group Plc on customizing  software for the operator's smartphones, the companies said in  a joint statement on Tuesday.
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Nokia, the world&#39;s largest maker of mobile phones, plans to bring 40 new handsets to the market in 2005 as it seeks to expand its already dominant market share in the face of increased competition from rivals Motorola, Samsung Electronics and Sony Ericsson
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia intends to boost its mobile ad business through the acquisition of Enpocket, which provides cell phone marketing technology and services to advertisers, Web publishers, and carriers. Nokia announced on Monday that it has entered into a definitive agreement to buy Enpocket, whose technology platform and business partnerships Nokia expects will allow it to rev up its products and services inÂ mobile advertising, a market poised for robust growth. The companies did not disclose financial terms of the deal. After years of great promise and unmet expectations, mobile advertising is expected to boom in coming years, going from a tiny market to a considerable one. Last week, The Kelsey Group predicted that spending on mobile search and display advertising in the U.S. will hit $33.2 million this year and grow at a compound annual rate of 112 percent through 2012, when it will total $1.4 billion. Kelsey Group also expects the number of mobile Internet users to grow at a 20 percent compound annual clip in the U.S. through 2012, when there will be almost 92 million people going online via their cell phones. Worldwide, mobile ad spending is expected to reach $1.5 billion this year and grow to $11.3 billion by 2011, according to market researcher Informa Telecoms & Media. As mobile phones become a viable vehicle for online marketing, all major telecom, online publishing, and Internet players are jockeying for position in this market. Those pursuing the mobile ad opportunity include online service giants like Google and Yahoo; mobile carriers like AT&T and Verizon Wireless; and handset manufacturers like Apple and Nokia. Nokia expects to close the Enpocket acquisition in this year's fourth quarter. Enpocket, based in Boston, offers the Enpocket Platform, which the vendor describes as a "carrier-grade mobile campaign management and delivery system" designed for operators, advertisers and publishers. It has customers in Europe, Asia and the U.S., including Vodafone, Pepsi, Telefonica, AT&T, British Telecom, and Sprint. Eden Zoller, an Ovum analyst, wrote in a note e-mailed to the media that Nokia does well in acquiring Enpocket, because the company is a strong mobile advertising specialist whose technology platform has a solid analytics component. "Enpocket gives Nokia a leg up in mobile advertising and credibility that it needs to be taken seriously in the space," Zoller wrote. Â
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(InfoWorld) - Despite aÂ boardroom scandalÂ that seems to deepen every day, Hewlett-Packard has won new contracts this week, including one that could be worth $5 billion over the next 10 years. The U.S. Army awarded HP a contract that allows several U.S. agencies to order products including desktop PCs, laptops, printers, scanners and displays from HP. The deal does not include specific volumes of products but HP estimates that it will be worth $5 billion. The contract could last as long as 10 years if the groups agree on optional extensions. HP expects to begin taking orders Oct. 1. HP has also signed a seven-year extension on an outsourcing deal with DirecTV. HP will continue providing IT operations and applications testing services that help DirecTV introduce new services, acquire customers and ensure bills are sent accurately and quickly. HP will also offer local area network management, data center operations, database support and disaster recovery for DirecTV. The contract extension is valued at about $500 million. The deals come at a troubled time for HP. The company's chairman said this month that she willÂ step downÂ for her part in an investigation of internal company leaks that involvedÂ obtaining private phone recordsÂ of HP employees and journalists. Details of the extent of the investigation, and the extent to which HP's top executives were involved in it,Â continue to surface. Â
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile  phone maker, said on Tuesday it has reached an agreement with  Google Inc to integrate the Web company's search engine into  its phones.
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Nokia Corp. announced deals worth more than 2 billion euros ($2.5 billion) with Chinese customers on Tuesday, sending the company's shares up 3 percent.
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Nokia Corp. announced a &#36;150 million deal Thursday to expand mobile phone coverage in Central China&#039;s Henan province.
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Hewlett-Packard Co., a maker of computers and office equipment that also provides information technology services, said on Wednesday that it will provide the world&#39;s largest cell phone maker, Nokia Corp.
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Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker has signed two contracts worth over two billion euros (2.54 billion dollars) with Chinese companies China Mobile and PTAC.
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Mobile phone maker Nokia (NOK1V.HE)  and Yahoo Inc.  said on Wednesday that they were  expanding their partnership and offering Yahoo services such as  e-mail and messaging on new Nokia phones.
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Agreement bundles Vonage software with Hewlett-Packard computers.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard plans to buy datacenter automation software vendor Opsware for about $1.6 billion. HP said Monday that it had signed a definitive agreement to acquire Opsware in a cash tender deal that values the company at $14.25 per share. Opsware's stock was $10.28 at the close of Friday's trading. Once the deal closes, HP plans to combine the Opsware software with its own enterprise IT management software, as the new acquisition becomes part of HP's software business. "The acquisition of Opsware is intended to enable HP Software to help our customers resolve one of their critical pain points: controlling the increasing complexity and cost of managing the datacenter," Thomas Hogan, senior vice president of software at HP, said in a news release. HP has been steadily expanding its business technology optimization portfolio over the last couple of years through acquisitions, including the purchases ofÂ Mercury InteractiveÂ andÂ Peregrine Systems. After HP has closed the acquisition, the vendor expects to appoint Opsware CEO Ben Horowitz as head of its business technology optimization organization, reporting to Hogan. Subject to regulatory approval, HP hopes to close the purchase before the end of October. Opsware System software automates data center operations including provisioning, configuration, and deployment. Â
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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.
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(InfoWorld) - Hewlett-Packard Co. (HP) and Microsoft Corp. will enter into a new enterprise software agreement to be detailed Wednesday. The news will be announced at a joint news conference Wednesday afternoon that will feature Kevin Turner, chief operating officer of Microsoft, and Ann Livermore, executive vice president of the Technology Solutions Group at HP. No further details about the nature of the agreement were revealed. HP and Microsoft have had a close relationship over the past two decades, described as a "Frontline Partnership" on the HP Web site. Current enterprise-level collaborations include HP support of the new Office 2007 suite of business software applications and Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 for data centers. HP provides technical briefings and proof-of-concept testing to customers and partners that are considering deploying Windows-based technology in their enterprises. HP is also a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner for Learning Solutions, providing technical training on Microsoft systems at HP offices globally.
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Nokia continued its push into the Internet services industry on Monday, announcing it had acquired Enpocket.
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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