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[TechCrunch Europe] Put together the Ad system they have, and they control a strong section of the mobile ecosystem from ad generation, delivery through branded channels, with good profile information about the user, especially since most new handsets from Nokia now have GPS built in.
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[TechCrunch Europe] Nokia ditching Symbian for Maemo, German FT reports: Each of those companies has played a major part in Nokia’s Ovi services strategy. Intellisync has become Nokia Messaging, their email solution, while LoudEye became the Nokia Music Store, Twango became Ovi Share, which allows you to share media, Gate5 and Navteq now form Ovi Maps, their turn-by-turn navigation product, and Oz Communications is used on S40-powered featurephones for email/IM, and will be used in S60 products soon, as well.
[JupiterResearch Analyst Weblogs] The Forrester Blog For Consumer Product Strategy Professionals: There are several reasons why Japan is ahead of the curve among which the role of Felica Networks in the value chain and the scale merchants could benefit from (Sony and DoCoMo invested several dozens of million euros to make sure that retailers and points of sale had the technology to read the chipsets embedded in mobile devices), the loosening of Japan's financial regulations (making it possible for non-banks to become financial services players), operators' role in paving the way for mass market adoption of mobile Internet and higher usage of mobile services (fostering the natural expansion of mobile payments).
[Wireless Federation] Mobile2.0: Web 2.0 inspired projects going mobile and/or mobile 2.0 projects have been considered as things to avoid for .It's being run by Charlie Schick from Nokia and Marko Ahtisaari from Blyk (the 1st pan-European free mobile operator).
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