Skype now available for Nokia smartphones in Ovi Store Tweet

More than 200 million smartphone users worldwide now have Skype at their fingertips.

Luxembourg and Espoo, Finland - Skype and Nokia jointly announced the release of Skype for Symbian, a Skype client for Nokia smartphones based on the Symbian platform, the world's most popular smartphone platform. Skype for Symbian will allow Nokia smartphone users worldwide to use Skype on the move, over either a WiFi or mobile data connection (GPRS, EDGE, 3G). It is now downloadable for free from the Ovi Store, Nokia's one-stop shop for mobile content.

Skype for Symbian enables Nokia smartphone users to:
- Make free Skype-to-Skype calls to other Skype users anywhere in the world*
- Save money on calls and texts (SMS) to phones abroad
- Send and receive instant messages to and from individuals or groups
- Share pictures, videos and other files
- Receive calls to their existing online number
- See when Skype contacts are online and available to call or IM
- Easily import names and numbers from the phone's address book

Skype for Symbian will run on any Nokia smartphone using Symbian ^1, the latest version of the Symbian platform. Skype will soon introduce this client to Symbian mobile devices from other manufacturers, including Sony Ericsson.

"Symbian enables us to bring smartphones to more and more people and ensures scale for our solutions and compelling services, such as Skype. We're seeing around 1.5 million downloads a day on Ovi Store now and believe that the Skype client for Nokia smartphones will have wide appeal to Symbian users," said Jo Harlow, Senior Vice President for Smartphones, Nokia.

"Skype, the king of Internet communications, running on Symbian, the world's dominant smartphone platform, makes for an explosive combination," said Larry Berkin, Head of Global Alliances and GM USA, Symbian Foundation. "With Symbian's global reach, Skype is that much closer to becoming the ubiquitous real-time communications platform for hundreds of millions of Symbian-based mobile users."

Russ Shaw, General Manager, Mobile at Skype said, "With Skype for Nokia smartphones, more than 200 million smartphone users worldwide** will be able to take the Skype features they love with them on the move. Alongside Skype's relationships with operators and handset manufacturers worldwide, making Skype available direct to consumers will help millions of users keep in contact with the people that are important to them without worrying about the cost, distance or whether they are away from a computer."

The initial Skype for Symbian application is compatible with the following Nokia touchscreen models: Nokia N97, Nokia N97 mini, Nokia X6, Nokia 5800 XpressMusic and Nokia 5530 and the following non-touch devices: Nokia E72, Nokia E71, Nokia E90, Nokia E63, Nokia E66, Nokia E51, Nokia N96, Nokia N95, Nokia N95 8Gb, Nokia N85, Nokia N82, Nokia N81, Nokia N81 8 Gb, Nokia N79, Nokia N78, Nokia 6220 classic, Nokia 6210 Navigator, Nokia 5320.

For more information on Skype for Symbian, including the latest supported handset list, at http://www.skype.com/go/symbian.

* Skype recommends use of an unlimited data plan to avoid incurring additional charges from operators. Users should also be aware that extra charges may apply if they use Skype over a mobile data connection when abroad.

** According to Informa Telecoms and Media

Nokia and the product names referenced in the release are trademarks of the Nokia Corporation.

About Skype
Skype is software that enables the world's conversations. Millions of individuals and businesses use Skype to make free video and voice calls, send instant messages and share files with other Skype users. Everyday, people everywhere also use Skype to make low-cost calls to landlines and mobiles. Download Skype to your computer or mobile phone at www.skype.com.

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Nokia 5230 Nuron delivers apps, maps and free navigation to T-Mobile USA customers Tweet

Affordable 3G touch-screen smartphone offers rich mobile experiences, Ovi Maps and Ovi Store.

White Plains, NY, USA and Bellevue, WA, USA - Nokia and T-Mobile USA announced the upcoming availability of the Nokia 5230 Nuron, a smartphone solution for the masses packed with applications, maps with turn-by-turn directions, and more. Operating on T-Mobile's blazing-fast 3G network, the Nokia Nuron offers dynamic Web browsing and rich experiences on a 3.2" touch screen. The device is also the first pre-loaded with Ovi Maps, a free turn-by-turn navigation solution from Nokia, and the first to have the Ovi Store pre-loaded, giving consumers access to thousands of compelling applications and games. The Nokia Nuron is expected to be available in the coming weeks exclusively from T-Mobile.

"The Nokia 5230 Nuron is a great product of our collaboration with T-Mobile USA and provides consumers with more compelling mobile experiences as they navigate, watch video, play games and social network," said Mark Slater, Vice President, Sales, Nokia. "The Nokia Nuron offers U.S. consumers a unique and compelling mobile experience that caters to their everyday needs and enables them to connect to their passions with an affordable 3G touch smartphone."

The Nokia Nuron is a mobile solution that allows consumers to easily make their way around town, download content and applications to keep them entertained, or help to manage their busy lives. Consumers can keep up with friends and family via IM, text, personal or work e-mail, and offers the ability to easily surf the Web with a full HTML browser.

"Many of our customers are looking for smartphones that deliver a great mobile Web experience with access to games and applications, all at an affordable price," said Travis Warren, director, product marketing, T-Mobile USA. "We are excited to partner with Nokia to offer our customers the Nokia 5230 Nuron, a 3G smartphone for the masses that delivers features like a full touch screen, free turn-by-turn navigation and a premium storefront for applications."

The Nokia Nuron is the first U.S. carrier -supported Nokia smartphone to pre-load Ovi Maps, a solution from Nokia that offers consumers free turn-by-turn directions and navigation. Additionally, Ovi Maps makes it easy to discover great places to eat, concerts, movies and more with Lonely Planet guides. Other features include the ability to check the weather forecast and even share one's current location on Facebook. With pedestrian navigation, Ovi Maps delivers the best routes through pedestrian zones and shortcuts as well as pathways through parks and buildings. Exploring the world or rediscovering your own city has never been easier or more fun with Ovi Maps. Nokia Nuron also comes preloaded with maps for the USA, Canada and Mexico - with the ability to access over 180 country maps at http://www.nokiausa.com/maps.

The Nokia Nuron will be the first device from a national U.S. carrier to come pre-loaded with Ovi Store by Nokia - giving consumers access to thousands of applications and other exciting content.

T-Mobile also plans to simplify the purchase experience for its customers and expects to enable them to pay for this great content by having it billed to their monthly bill or via a credit card.

To learn more about Ovi by Nokia, or for more information on how to develop for Ovi Store, please visit http://www.ovi.com and http://publish.ovi.com, respectively.

Availability
The Nokia 5230 Nuron is expected to be available on in the coming weeks in select T-Mobile retail stores and online at http://www.t-mobile.com. For more information, please visit http://www.nokiausa.com/NokiaNuron or http://www.t-mobile.com.

Use of some features or services may incur separate, additional charges and/or require a qualifying data plan. 3G coverage is available in locations nationwide, but may not be available everywhere. For more details on where T-Mobile network coverage is available, please visit www.t-mobile.com/coverage.



About Nokia
Nokia is a pioneer in mobile telecommunications and the world's leading maker of mobile devices. Today, we are connecting people in new and different ways - fusing advanced mobile technology with personalized services to enable people to stay close to what matters to them. We also provide comprehensive digital map information through NAVTEQ; and equipment, solutions and services for communications networks through Nokia Siemens Networks.

About T-Mobile USA, Inc.
Based in Bellevue, Wash., T-Mobile USA, Inc. is the U.S. wireless operation of Deutsche Telekom AG. By the end of the fourth quarter of 2009, almost 152 million mobile customers were served by the mobile communication segments of the Deutsche Telekom group - 33.8 million by T-Mobile USA - all via a common technology platform based on GSM and UMTS, the world's most widely used digital wireless standards. T-Mobile USA's innovative wireless products and services help empower people to connect to those who matter most. Multiple independent research studies continue to rank T-Mobile among the highest in numerous regions throughout the U.S. in wireless customer care and call quality. For more information, please visit http://www.T-Mobile.com. T-Mobile is a federally registered trademark of Deutsche Telekom AG.

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Nokia partners with automotive industry to introduce Terminal Mode - a new industry standard for connecting smartphones to in-car infotainment systems Tweet

Nokia believes it should be easy to share information and content between your smartphone and other devices you use everyday such as your PC and the web. This way it is easy to keep everything synchronized and ensure you always have access to the things you love, such as your music, and the services you use, such as navigation, whenever and wherever you need them.

The average person spends between one and two hours per day in their car. Given that their smartphone not only holds their favorite music but now, if it is a Nokia smartphone, comes with free worldwide navigation services (Ovi Maps), the next logical step is to provide an easy way to connect their smartphone to their car. This way services and content from the mobile can be fully integrated with the in-car speakers, displays and control systems. Just as importantly, though, this connection should be two-way so that the smartphone can access performance information from the vehicle itself and provide more relevant information to the driver.

This is what ‘Terminal Mode’ sets out to achieve. It is being proposed as an industry standard to connect all smartphones that adopt it, not just Nokia smartphones, to support in-car infotainment systems. This is what Nokia and others are talking about at the 2010 Geneva Motor Show.

Nokia and NAVTEQ have been working with a range of automotive partners to demonstrate this new connectivity technology. Nokia has also been working with the Consumer Electronics for Automotive working group (CE4A). The technology to connect the mobile device to the car infotainment system has been developed in collaboration with Nokia Research Center, Palo Alto.

At the show Nokia is part of the following announcements:

- Partnership between Nokia and Alpine Electronics to highlight integration of smartphone music and media services with in-car audio systems using Terminal Mode
- Partnership between Nokia and Harman Becker to demonstrate integration of navigations services with in-car infotainment systems using Terminal Mode
- Valmet Automotive shows electric concept car called Eva that includes Terminal Mode technology
- Integration of Fiat’s Blue&Me platform with Nokia smartphones

Nokia sees ‘Terminal Mode’ as a technology to fuel industry innovation as it allows manufacturers and developers to build new kinds of services by interlinking car information with smartphone applications. For example, Nokia will bring Ovi Services such as navigation and music in to the car via its smartphones. By potentially integrating car information such as speed and fuel consumption with navigation services on the smartphone the driver can get a more personalized and relevant service. He can also play music from the smartphone on the in-car sound system and download driving specific applications from the Ovi Store.

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Sony Ericsson's Q1 quarter, 2010 financial results announcement will be made on Friday, April 16 at 07:30 UK time / 08:30 CET, Tweet

followed by a conference call with analysts and media at 13:00 UK time / 14:00 CET.


Sony Ericsson's Q1 quarter, 2010 financial results announcement will be made on Friday, April 16 at 07:30 UK time / 08:30 CET, followed by a conference call with analysts and media at 13:00 UK time / 14:00 CET.

Please find below a more detailed breakdown of the corresponding times in other regions and numbers to call:

PRESS RELEASE ISSUED:
April 16, 2010
07:30 UK time

CONFERENCE CALL:
Hosted by SEMC executive management team
April 16, 2010
13:00 UK time
14:00 Central European time (CET)
08:00 US Eastern time (EST)
21:00 Japan time (JST)

Details on webcast and call-in numbers will follow soon.

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SONY ERICSSON RENEWS PARTNERSHIP WITH WTA TOUR Tweet

LONDON, UNITED KINGDOM AND ST. PETERSBURG, FL, USA – The WTA Tour and Sony Ericsson today announced a two year extension to their existing partnership that will see Sony Ericsson, one of the world’s leading mobile phone manufacturers, become the lead global sponsor for the Tour through to the end of 2012.

The Sony Ericsson-WTA Tour partnership has taken women’s tennis to new audiences through unprecedented fusion of the sport with technology, fashion and music, enabling the Tour to lay the foundation for an unprecedented global growth of women’s tennis.

“Sony Ericsson has been an incredible partner for the last five years and this extension is both a real sign of strength and stability, and a testament to the investment value delivered by our players and tournaments,” said Stacey Allaster, Chairman and CEO of the Sony Ericsson WTA Tour. “We are very pleased that Sony Ericsson will remain our partner and we look forward to continuing to deliver to fans and taking women’s tennis and Sony Ericsson to new heights through our joint vision for the future of the sport.”

Aldo Liguori, Corporate VP and Head of Global Communications & PR, Sony Ericsson said, “Our relationship with the WTA Tour over the past five years has been tremendously successful giving us significant international brand exposure and awareness. We are delighted to be extending this relationship for a further two years as we take the company into a new stage of growth.”

World No. 5 Venus Williams, who played a role in the Tour’s renewal discussions with Sony Ericsson, added: “I’ve been playing on Tour for 15 years now and it’s amazing to see how much women’s tennis has grown in the last five years since Sony Ericsson has been involved with the Tour. The value that Sony Ericsson brings to women’s tennis is significant, giving us tremendous opportunities to market the sport and connect with fans in every corner of the globe.”

"Sony Ericsson's long-term partnership with women's tennis has taken the WTA Tour to a new level," said tennis legend and WTA Tour founder Billie Jean King. "Their commitment to our fans, players, tournaments and our values has been at the core of our success."

Under the extension agreement, Sony Ericsson will become the Tour’s lead global sponsor and will retain the prime net signage at the Tour’s 53 tournaments in 33 countries along with significant television and digital media rights, while becoming the Tour’s lead global sponsor in lieu of title sponsor, resulting in a reversion of the Tour’s official name to WTA Tour commencing later this year. Additionally, Sony Ericsson will no longer title the Tour’s year-end Championships from 2010, set to take place in Doha later this year and in Istanbul from 2011-2013.

Since partnering with the Tour in 2005, Sony Ericsson has taken the sport beyond the confines of the court and has continued to spark energy and interest in women’s tennis. To attract new fans and broaden the appeal of the sport on a global basis, Sony Ericsson has championed innovations such as “Night Tennis” that fuse music, dance and women’s tennis; eye-catching publicity stunts that have made news around the world; and compelling social media content. As the Tour and Sony Ericsson look to the future, Sony Ericsson’s ability to leverage its technology expertise and leading edge mobile phones to create unprecedented engagement and access fans of women’s tennis will take center stage.

About Sony Ericsson WTA Tour
The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour is the world’s leading professional sport for women with more than 2,225 players representing 91 nations competing for more than $86 million in prize money at the Tour’s 53 events and four Grand Slams in 33 countries. More than 4.9 million people attended women’s tennis events in 2009 with millions more watching on television networks around the world. The Sony Ericsson WTA Tour season concludes with the Sony Ericsson Championships – Doha 2010 in Doha, Qatar, from October 26-31, and the Commonwealth Bank Tournament of Champions in Bali, Indonesia, from November 4-7. Further information on the Tour can be found on the Internet at www.sonyericssonwtatour.com.

About Sony Ericsson
Sony Ericsson is a 50/50 joint venture by Sony and Ericsson established in October 2001, with global corporate functions located in London and operations in all major markets. Our vision is to become the industry leader in communication entertainment where new styles of communication through the internet and social media become entertainment. Sony Ericsson offers exciting consumer experiences through phones, accessories, content and applications.

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The Latest Blackberry Platform on the Internet Tweet

The latest version of the smartphone Blackberry platform might be competing with the iPhone smartphone and the Google Nexus One. This is from two photographs mentioned display Blackberry OS 6.0 as reported by www.BBLeaks.com website, Friday (19/3/2010).

Two photos show the front screen of the Blackberry without showing his handset. However, seeing from the size of the screen, which used similar handset like in Blackberry Storm smartphone or Blackberry Storm 2 that using touch screen technology.

The first photograph shows a page filled with widgets from a variety of Blackberry application. Three widgets is composed continues ESPN game results, weather information, and travel info. At the bottom of the widget extends the latest information. Another menu is a clock with large font sizes, alarms, and email notification and SMS. While in the second photo is also seen following Twitter message widget.

There are no any information of the Research In Motion (RIM) about the Blackberry OS 6.0 platform development. This platform maybe the news good from RIM for the Blackberry next product. RIM is reportedly preparing Blackberry Slider that equipped with the touch screen and full QWERTY keypad. Will the Blackberry Slider using the latest OS version 6.0?

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The Spread of the Virus Facebook Password Thieves Tweet

The spread of the virus in an attempt to steal important information on social networks is that hackers have long done. It is estimated that they could fool the approximately 40 million users Facebook. "Hackers have long made a target Facebook users, by deceiving them through a fake email from the Facebook. The attack is quite easy for them, because only require regular Internet networks to spread malicious software," said Director of Malware Research and Communication McAfee Dave Marcus .

Dave predicted, hackers spread the virus creator has spread to almost all the world Facebook users. Even the number reached tens of millions of targeted accounts, which spread in Europe, the United States (U.S.) and Asia. It is estimated that McAfee, the virus has spread since the beginning of this week. According to Dave, millions of computers already infected ascertained.

Even 400 million users of Facebook, if taken just 10 percent of the hackers have managed to infect approximately 40 million Facebook users, including the U.S. and Asia, where most Facebook users come from these countries. Therefore, Dave recommend that Facebook users who happened to find this email, do not be tempted to click on attachments that are included in the fake email. "If the attachment is opened the virus contained in it will directly download some software that endanger your computer automatically, including programs that can steal passwords of any kind," Dave said.

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