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Nokia Online Apps Get A Makeover

By Branko Miletic | Wednesday | 10/09/2008

After Nokia bought U.S. digital maps firm Navteq for $US8.1 billion in July, it has also acquired ten smaller firms to jump-start its Internet services business, according to reports.

Firstly, Nokia will introduce The Files on Ovi service, based on the acquisition of Avvenu last year, which allows users to store files on the Web so that they are always accessible, an increasingly common service offered by Internet firms like Google and Yahoo, according to a report in computerworld.com.

Nokia has also introduced a new personal information management (PIM) synchronisation service for calendar, contacts, notes and tasks between Nokia phones and its Internet services site, which is similar to Apple and Microsoft offerings.

Furthermore, it has also opened up its media sharing site and games offering on Facebook and is looking to broaden ties with the fast-growing social networking site.

Nokia, which made about 40 per cent of all mobile phones sold in the second quarter, is the first handset maker to move strongly into content provision, trying to bolster its margins by selling customers mobile music or applications like games?, the report notes, adding that it plans to invest billions of euros in building up a strong presence on the Internet services market over the next few years.

See: www.nokia.com

 

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