“Nokia Oyj is close to announcing a software partnership with Microsoft Corp., a bet that together the two companies can better challenge Google Inc. and Apple Inc., according to a person with knowledge of the discussions,” Carol Hymowitz, Dina Bass and Diana ben-Aaron report for Bloomberg.
“Nokia Chief Executive Officer Stephen Elop has held talks with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer about putting Microsoft’s mobile operating system on Nokia phones, said the person, who asked not to be identified because the discussions were private,” Hymowitz, Bass and ben-Aaron report. “Elop also held talks with Google CEO Eric Schmidt about using Google’s Android software, the person said. Those discussions are unlikely to lead to an alliance, according to another person familiar with the matter.”
Hymowitz, Bass and ben-Aaron report, “Elop will unveil a new strategy for Nokia at an event in London tomorrow, laying out his comeback plan for the smartphone market… Elop, 47, took the helm at Nokia in September after a stint as head of Microsoft’s business-software division.”
Full article here.
MacDailyNews Take: If true, Apple will surely be quite content to own the high-end while Andoid and Windows Phone ’07 take chunks out of each other down in commodityland.
Oooh, this is easier to read than the old MDN design. And snazzier.
Not too shabby.
Looks like Nokia is Finnish’d……?
You totally went there. Bravo!
Definitely better. The yellow bar in the header/logo still needs some work. 🙂
It’s not letting me log in
Wow, MDN. The mobile version looks great.
TowerTone, did you log in with your same login info or did you re-register? It won’t accept my old password or email address, but It says my username is already taken.. ??
I re-registered. Maybe there is another MikeK in the WordPress world?
It is the WPtouch or WPtouch Pro theme for WordPress. It is very clean looking, which is what you need on the small iPhone screen. I just downloaded it and I’m about to install in on one of my blogs.
How did you add your picture? Can’t see any option for that on the WP admin page for my account?
Figured it out. What a bunch of bullshit to jump thru to do this!
“Someone shut the Windows, it’s getting Ballmyer in here”
Frusen Gladje
Too Little, meet Too Late.
Woah, helvetica.
Well, I’m no longer “MikeK,” now i’m “mikek84”
Better, back to MikeK 🙂
Whoah. It’s not only a new look, but there seems nice changes under the hood. There’s some HTML5, semantic web 3.0, and JQuery going on. I like.
Didn’t this Elop character formerly work for MicroSoft? If so, no surprise with this new direction
In the immortal words of Gomer Pyle:
“Surprise, surprise, surprise, surprise!”
That’s exactly what Gomer Pyle said to Rock Hudson when Rock was told he had some STD
So…. when do we hear from the Oilly Pekker……
Nokia and Microsoft..
“Two turkeys does not make an eagle” 😉
Are we so sure the new font is Helvetica? Could it be,,,Oh, I dunno…Lucida Grande? (Made famous worldwide by that company in Cupertino. It is also not black but a medium gray (like Iron) which Apple is also famous for.
Slokia
@troy
I think the expression is – It’s hard to soar with the eagles when you walk with the Turkeys. Or something like that!
“Elop will unveil a new strategy”
Mission: WTF Choice do we have? Get that fat idiot Ballmer on the Phone.
heh-heh! It all comes together now. I just realized that Ballmer reminds me of Baron Harkkonen (a Finnish name). Remember Emperor Shaddam shouting, “get me that floating gat man, the Baron.”
Sorry – that should be “…floating FAT man…” Would be nice to be able to edit posts. The reference is to the David Lynch DUNE film of 25 years ago.
Both Nokia and RIM are looking like quite the acquisition targets lately. At least RIM has an end to end solution. You can lump Nokia into the “me to” pile that includes: Dell, HTC, Moto, Samsung, LG, and Sony.
Microsoft’s mobile operating system?
Nokia’s doomed.
Well at least Nokia recognizes it’s problems.
Find a competitive course of action might be a little more challenging.
Apple’s Steve Jobs must be laughing his ass off when he heard this news.
If Nokia is really insane enough to put MSFT’s “mobile” OS on their new phones, it may very well be the end of Nokia. RIP!!
This is a very good thing for Apple. For Nokia is it the only sane thing they could do if they want to survive in the short term since they’re not able to make a competitive OS anytime soon. In the long run they’re getting more and more commoditised.
right this is logical, two losers makes one winner?