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Tuesday February 12, 2008

Nokia Teams With Google To Add Google Search on Handsets

Nokia and Google have announced a collaboration to offer Google Search to Nokia customers worldwide. Google search will be integrated into the Nokia search application on four of its latest phones unveiled at the Mobile World Congress and ultimately, Nokia will make Google search available on some mass market models in over 100 countries and in more than 40 languages. Nokia has similar deals in place with Yahoo and Microsoft around the world, and with Baidu in China and Yandex in Russia. The latest agreement is part of Nokia’s strategy to offer consumers more choice and services. Nokia, currently the largest cell phone maker, faces a potential threat from Google which is scheduled to roll out Android software- a direct rival to Nokia’s S60 platform-for cell phones later this year. The Google Nokia collaboration is not the first for the two companies. The Google search engine is already available on Nokia Internet navigators, known as Nokia Internet Tablets, and Nokia last year signed an agreement with Google to share videos from Google's You Tube service to make them accessible on certain Nokia handset models.

http://www.google.com/intl/en/press/pressrel/20080212_mobile_nokia.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/technology/tech-mobile-fair-google-nokia.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080212/tc_afp/finlandtelecomequipinternetcompanynokiagoogle
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080212/ap_on_hi_te/spain_google_nokia
http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20080212/tc_infoworld/95260
http://www.news.com/Nokia-to-add-Google-search-on-handsets/2100-1039_3-6230165.html?tag=nefd.top

BlackBerrys Internet Service Disrupted Again

For the second time this year, a technical failure on Monday left many Research in Motions North and Central American Blackberry users without access to email and the Web. The service was down for over three hours leaving executives, politicians, lawyers and other professionals who rely on the BlackBerry wireless email service for its ability to send secure e-mails shut down. It was said the failure occurred somewhere in the servers that Research In Motion operates to connect the hand-held devices with the Internet. The BlackBerry has had a loyal following, particularly among business users, since its introduction nine years ago. RIM has 12 million subscribers for its BlackBerry service worldwide and about 8 million in North America.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/technology/12rim.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN1114968920080211
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120276783150860213.html
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-fi-blackberry12feb12,1,2359468.story
http://www.news.com/RIM-notifies-of-critical-BlackBerry-outage/2100-1041_3-6230117.html?tag=nefd.top
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/11/AR2008021101947.html

[edited by: Vanessa_Zamora at 7:44 pm (utc) on Feb. 12, 2008]