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Yahoo is expected to announce a Nokia deal
PROJECT NIKE is allegedly the name of a joint programme between Yahoo and Nokia that will be annouced at a press conference in New York on Monday 24 May.
The initiative is named after either the running shoe manufacturer or the Greek goddess of victory, one assumes. Various media report that the press conference will hear that Yahoo will provide applications for Nokia phones.
The Finnish phone maker declined to comment and Yahoo had neither confirmed nor denied the reports by press time. Nokia is expected to launch its own tablet later this year but this is not rumoured to be linked to the New York event with Yahoo.
If Yahoo will provide applications for Nokia then there might be an open source element to it, since Nokia announced in April that it will use Symbian's open source S^3 OS in its smartphones.
Nokia's is losing the smartphone battle against the Blackberry, Apple's Iphone and Android smartphones, and Yahoo has failed to take search market share from Google despite its partnership with Microsoft's Bing.
But the web portal's CEO Carol Bartz apparently couldn't refrain from giving the leading Internet search company some advice. Bartz will be at the New York press conference on Monday. µ
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Is the author American or something? One really needs to be a total ignorant to claim Nokia is losing "market share".
Also, I remember Yahoo had an amazingly good "Go" application which integrated to the real awkward Nokia 9300 (S80) perfectly, down to showing Yahoo contacts and mails on phone's own addressbook and mail.
They went more generic in 2.0 and on 3.0 they promised universal widgets, the same widgets available on Yahoo Widgets (which is also a wasted project)... Later, they mailed, especially to Nokia users that they canceled Yahoo Go as "phone browsers are really powerful" (yea, right!).
As a Nokia user, I know all these which can be called almost a bad comedy... Does reporting really mean copy/paste press releases with some trollish false information added? On this site? Leave it to fanboy sites who has direct ties to Apple breaking every ethics rule on the book.
It really makes me mad when a British site doesn't know what they talk about regarding Symbian.
Nokia sure is loosing the "battle" to us with around 40% market share.