Yahoo, Nokia Expand Content Partnership
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Nokia will expand its line of Yahoo-capable handsets to include those operating on the Series 40 platform, the operating system used by many of the Finnish phone maker's non-smartphone devices.
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia Corp. is the latest investor to inject capital in a new venture for sharing pictures and videos on the Web. Through its venture capital unit Nokia Growth Partners, the Finnish manufacturer has invested an undisclosed sum in Kyte.tv, owned by Decentral.tv Corp., in a move to help users of its mobile phones consume, create and share media, the company said Tuesday. Nokia joins several other Kyte.tv investors, including the mobile subsidiary of Swisscom AG, the venture capital arm of German media company Verlagsgruppe Georg von Holzbrinck and investment company Atomico Investment Holdings Ltd., co-founded by Niklas ZennstrÃ¶m. A pioneer of peer-to-peer networking technology, ZennstrÃ¶m helped launch the VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) company Skype Ltd. and, more recently, the Internet TV operator Joost NV. Launched earlier this year in San Francisco, Kyte.tv joins YouTube, MySpace, Slide and several other Web companies that permit users to generate content and share it with others. The site allows users to upload photographs or videos to create interactive TV channels, add music or text, then broadcast them from a mobile phone or PC to any Web site, blog, social network or mobile phone. Viewers can contribute to users' "channels" via live chat or ad hoc opinion polls. The channels can also be embedded on social network sites such as MySpace. While Swisscom aims to offer Kyte.tv as a feature on its mobile phone service and Holzbrinck plans to add the service to its electronic media distribution network, Nokia provided no specific details other than that the company hopes to help the Web startup "grow its audience globally."
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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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HELSINKI (AFX) - Nokia Corp said it and Motorola Corp, NEC Corp, Siemens AG, and Sony Ericsson have started an Open Mobile Alliance to enable broadcast services to mobile devices.
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Nokia and Handango announced that Handango will be a key content provider through the Preminet Solution, recently announced by Nokia.
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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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Internet giant Yahoo on Wednesday announced partnership agreements with six leading Asian mobile phone operators with a combined subscriber base of nearly 100 million.
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Internet giant Yahoo! extended its reach in Net&#39;s growing multimedia market today when it announced the deal to acquire media player software house MusicMatch.
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Kyte.tv, a new Web site for sharing pictures and video via cell phone, has received funding from Nokia.
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Mobile e-mail and messaging from Yahoo are set to become the norm for owners of Nokia phones.
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(InfoWorld) - Nokia will release a new version of its N80 multimedia phone next month with beefed-up Internet capabilities. The N80 Internet Edition has integrated VOIP (voice over Internet Protocol) into the user interface, and users can download third-party VOIP calling applications, Nokia said. Also included is a wireless LAN wizard to find and configure wireless Internet access. The Finnish company has also geared the device toward Amazon.com and Yahoo's search engine. The N80 Internet Edition comes with Yahoo's Mobile Search application and its Go for Mobile program, which can sync a user's Yahoo e-mail and contacts with a mobile device. The enhanced N80 has Amazon's MobiPocket Reader, an application for reading books. Nokia cited other multimedia capabilities, such as the ability to upload photos to the Flickr.com photo Web site. The Internet Edition comes with other Nokia software, including its Web browser and a new client called Download that can be used to download other compatible programs for the device, Nokia said. The N80 Internet Edition retains features on the regular N80 phone, such as the 3-megapixel camera and quadband GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications) and WCDMA (Wideband Code-Division Multiple Access) coverage. Pricing for the device was not immediately available.
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AMSTERDAM: Nokia, the world&#39;s biggest mobile phone maker, said on Wednesday it will create a single software platform for smart mobile phones that double as TVs, MP3 players, radios and e-mail devices.
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Nokia's new mobile ad network will be run in partnership with Sprint and some 70 major Web-based content providers worldwide. Meanwhile, Nokia is reportedly talking about a Windows Mobile deal with Microsoft.
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Nokia and Vodafone are teaming up to develop a mobile Java-services architecture designed to deliver the long-awaited reality of mobile networks that support many applications on a wide variety of devices.
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InfoWorld - Yahoo will upgrade its free software suite for mobile phones, improving such capabilities as search, mapping, e-mail, and photo management, the&#160;company announced on Tuesday.
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Yahoo Inc.  said it signed  agreements with six mobile operators across Asia, as part of a  broad global expansion that will see its mobile services in  tens of millions of phones by the end of the year.
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Subscribers to Verizon Communications Inc.'s high-speed Internet services will be able to access customized and premium content from Web giant Yahoo Inc. under a multiyear agreement that combines the companies' offerings into a single brand.