Nokia, Trimble in navigation license deal
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The world's biggest mobile phone   handset maker Nokia NOK1V.HE unveiled a patent-licensing deal   with technology firm Trimble Navigation TRMB.O on Monday,   aimed at tapping into the fast-growing mobile navigation   market.
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Exclusive agreement allows Nokia to use Trimble's location-based technology in consumer products and services.
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In keeping with their strategies for the highly competitive mobile environment, Google and Nokia announced Tuesday that the popular search engine will be integrated with the Nokia Search application.
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The consortium behind the Bluetooth wireless standard announced Tuesday that Nokia Corp., the world's largest maker of cell phones, is contributing a technology that promises to bring the wireless connections to devices that are too small for regular Bluetooth chips.
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HELSINKI : Finnish mobile phone giant Nokia and British mobile operator Vodafone said they would collaborate to simplify mobile phone software using the Java computer language, paving the way for cheaper mobile phones in the long run.
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Nokia is joining forces with Microsoft to allow its mobile phone users to more easily download music to their handsets.
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(InfoWorld) - NokiaÂ has signed a licensing deal with Trimble Navigation that gives the mobile phone maker access to hundreds of technology patents for providing location-based services. The deal could also strengthen Nokia's hand in license negotiations with other companies. The deal with Trimble, announced Monday, gives Nokia the rights to almost 700 Trimble technology patents for use in Nokia products, said Waldemar Sakalus, director of business development for Nokia's mobile phone group. Nokia also gets the exclusive right to sublicense the patents to other companies in the wireless industry, he said. In return, Trimble gets a nonexclusive license to use Nokia's own location-based technology patents in its own commercial products. Location-based services allow operators to pinpoint the location of a customer using GPS (Global Positioning System) and other technologies, and then deliver services based on that information, such as finding a nearby hotel or providing driving directions. "It's a field we believe will become more and more important and which carries a lot of business opportunities," Sakalus said. Just last weekÂ NokiaÂ announced its new N95 phone, which comes with integrated GPS capabilities, he noted. Having the exclusive rights to sublicense Trimble's patents could also strengthen Nokia's hand when it comes to negotiating license deals with other companies, Sakalus acknowledged. That could come in handy for Nokia as it tries to resolve aÂ licensing dispute with QualcommÂ over Nokia's use of some key Qualcomm wireless technologies. Nokia has complained that Qualcomm is demanding royalty payments for its technology that are too high, while Qualcomm has accused Nokia of patent infringement. Nokia's current agreement to use Qualcomm's patents expires in the first half of next year. If the Trimble patents strengthen Nokia's negotiating position with third parties then that would be a nice benefit, but that is not it's main motivation for the deal with Trimble, according to Sakalus. He did not refer to Qualcomm specifically. The objective's main deal is to gain access to a broad set of patents in a field that Nokia sees as important and growing, he said. Most of Trimble's customers are in industries such as agriculture and construction, and by sublicensing the patents Nokia can make them more available to the mobile industry, he said. The deal involved a financial payment along with the patent sharing aspect, but the companies aren't providing details. The terms will not materially affect the finances of either company, they said. Trimble's patents deal with location-based services based on GPS; assisted GPS, which uses additional servers to amplify GPS signals in urban areas; and Galileo, the European satellite navigation network. Nokia is still deciding whether it will license them separately or as part of its general portfolio of GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access) patents, Sakalus said. He said he saw "no problem" with licensing the patents to rival phone makers. Nokia has said that it currently pays more in technology licensing fees then it receives. It hopes to grow its patents portfolio and eventually make patent licensing a profitable part of its business.
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The world's top handset maker Nokia   NOK1V.HE unveiled a patent-licensing deal with navigation   technology firm Trimble Navigation TRMB.O on Monday.
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Nokia said Thursday that it had reached an agreement with Microsoft to integrate Windows Live Search into its phones, meaning consumers would be able to access the service via both Nseries and S60 phones.
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Nokia introduced the successor to its popular&#160;N95 mobile phone, the N96, featuring a slightly larger screen, as well as an upgraded mapping program.The N96, due out by September, has a 2.8-inch LCD TFT screen, a bit larger than the N95&#39;s 2.6-inch screen. Minus subsidies and taxes, the phone will sell for &#8364;550 ($800), Nokia said at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona on Monday.The N96 has 16GB of internal flash memory -- enough to hold roughly 40 hours of video or 12,000 songs -- plus a slot for an 8GB microSD memory card.Other features are a video camera that records at 30 frames per second and a 5-megapixel camera with Carl Zeiss optics. The N96 also includes Nokia&#39;s Assisted GPS (Global Positioning System) application, which lets users put markers on the photos based on their location, known as &quot;geotagging.&quot; Photos can then be uploaded to photo-sharing services such as Yahoo&#39;s Flickr, Nokia said.A-GPS is also a feature on three other new Nokia products: the 6210 Navigator, 6220 classic and the N78. The phones will also have Maps 2.0, Nokia&#39;s latest upgrade to its mapping program, also announced Monday. Maps 2.0 has been in a beta release, and Nokia has been expanding the number of countries that Maps covers.The most notable feature of Maps 2.0 is the &quot;Walk&quot; feature for pedestrians. The feature taps into a piece of technology in the 6210 -- an &quot;accelerometer&quot; -- that detects when a walker changes direction. Used with the device&#39;s built-in compass, a pedestrian can watch their progress on the mapping program as they are moving, as well as get directions to a different location.Minus taxes and subsidies, the 6210 Navigator will retail for &#8364;300; the 6220 classic for &#8364;325 and the N78 for &#8364;350. The 6210 and 6220 should be available by September, with the N78 coming out before the end of June, Nokia said.Nokia is also trying build interest in Ovi.com, its Web site where users can share photos, buy music and access third-party services such as Flickr. The latest upgrade, &quot;Share on Ovi,&quot; lets people create a personal account to publish their photos.The service is free and intended to be a one-stop place where people can manage their content on their phones and PCs. However, Ovi.com is in a field crowded with other competitors, such as Facebook.Nokia also took a step in the mobile advertising arena. The company has launched the Nokia Media Network, a consortium of operators and publishers. Nokia said the platform will let advertisers book mobile ad campaigns, reaching some 100 million mobile users.Media publisher Hearst, Reuters, Sprint, and Discovery Communications have joined the network, Nokia said.
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The world's top cellphone maker Nokia  (NOK1V.HE) unveiled a new navigation smartphone on Monday with  fast data connections, maps and full navigation software at the  3GSM mobile communications trade show.
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InfoWorld - Nokia has added new features to its mobile mapping application, with a revamped user interface and a status indicator to alert users when they&#39;re connected to a GPS satellite.
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia appears to be trying to work increasingly close with operators as a way to push its S60 mobile phone software. The strategy could result in more Symbian phones available to U.S. users. Last year at theÂ 3GSM World Congress, Vodafone Group announced that it would build a software package that could be adopted by S60 licensees that would make it easier for Vodafone to introduce new services on a wide range of phones without having to customize the software for each handset. On Tuesday, Vodafone released the software package and Nokia and Samsung Electronics said they plan to use it in new devices this year. Vodafone says the software will help it speed up the delivery of new services to users. S60 is user interface software created by Nokia for the Symbian operating system. It is primarily used by Nokia but LG Electronics and Samsung also license S60. Symbian competes with Microsoft's Windows Mobile and Research In Motion's operating system. Nokia may be near a similar deal to the Vodafone collaboration in the U.S., where the world's largest mobile phone maker has continued to struggle for a foothold. Symbian is the most popular smartphone operating system in the world but has a very small user base in the U.S. "We are in active dialog with Cingular," said Matti Vanska, vice president of mobile software sales and marketing for Nokia. An agreement with Cingular, now called AT&T, that is similar to the collaborations Nokia has made with European operators could result in more Symbian devices on the U.S. market. Nokia is also working to try to encourage U.S. developers to work on products for Symbian phones, which could also spur more demand for the handsets in North America. "There are a lot of interesting developers in North America," said Lee Epting, vice president of Forum Nokia, the developer community for S60 and other Nokia software. "They tend to look just at North America even if the global prospects are better." Nokia is trying to encourage those developers to notice the large market for Symbian devices in Asia-Pacific, China and Europe, she said. Other operators have also begun collaborations with Nokia on S60. On Monday, Nokia said that it will work closely with Telecom Italia Mobile's internal application development team and address its requirements for S60. Nokia also announced last week that it would collaborate with T-Mobile International to improve the ability of S60 licensees to develop phones for T-Mobile.
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Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN) said Tuesday it has signed a strategic partnership with Deutsche Telekom as well as two deals worth 450 million euros (317 million dollars) over five years.
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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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Rival mobile telephony vendors are settling their court battle with a cross-licensing agreement.
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Forum Nokia, the global developer support program of mobile giant Nokia, has announced an innovative software application that makes it easy for end-users to discover, try and buy mobile applications, content and services.