Nokia has no plans to use Windows Mobile -CEO
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| Kallasvuo repeated Nokia would unveil a version of its own operating system,
| Symbian S60 touch-screen platform, in the second half of 2008.
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http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUKL119269620080211?rpc=44
That's a relief. Let Windows Mobile contine to lose $billions.
Recent:
Microsoft urges Nokia to offer Windows Mobile devices
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| While Nokia phones don’t yet have a Windows OS, they do use a range of other
| Microsoft software. This includes ActiveSynch for connecting to Exchange
| Servers and the PlayReady DRM technology used to protect purchased music and
| video content.
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| Starkweather said the existing relationship between the two companies was
| strong and he was enthusiastic about it developing further in the future.
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| “We work closely with Nokia and we would love to have them go all the way,”
| he said. “It’s something we talk about all the time.”
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http://www.itwire.com/content/view/16510/1055/
Related:
Nokia dismisses Google open source Android platform
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| Nokia's CEO Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo dismissed Android saying his company had
| already ventured down that path. "Conceptually, we [Nokia] could have made
| that announcement a long time ago."
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http://axcessnews.com/index.php/articles/show/id/13352
Is Nokia Looking for Revenue in the Wrong Places?
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| He proposed that iPod and iTunes was an exception, and would be eclipsed by a
| Nokia/Microsoft (MSFT) partnership in short order.
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| [...]
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| That conversation echoes the one that nearly every music player manufacturer
| on the planet has had to date. And Microsoft's DRM and poor business
| decisions has managed to undermine the business of every single one of them,
| especially now that Microsoft's Zune competes with them and yet isn't
| compatible with Microsoft's own PlaysForSure music software.
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http://seekingalpha.com/article/56822-is-nokia-looking-for-revenue-in-the-wrong-places?source=yahoo
Nokia to W3C: Ogg is proprietary, we need DRM on the Web
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| But remember, that's not what Nokia is objecting to: they are arguing that
| Ogg is proprietary (it isn't) and that DRM should be part of a Web standard
| (it shouldn't).
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http://www.boingboing.net/2007/12/09/nokia-to-w3c-ogg-is.html
Nokia to put Microsoft PlayReady onto S60 & S40 cellphone platforms
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| Nokia is to support Microsoft's PlayReady content access technology into the
| Nokia S60 and Series 40 mobile device platforms, starting in 2008.
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http://www.itwire.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=13884&Itemid=1055
Microsoft: We Like DRM
http://www.forbes.com/2007/02/08/zune-drm-itunes-tech-media-cx_df_0208bach.html?partner=yahootix
http://tinyurl.com/2lrz3y
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