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Microsoft cuddles up to Nokia, Pre calls home

15.08.09

(08-14) 14:41 PDT -- The animated market earned several mentions in this week's column. Nokia and Microsoft announced a partnership that will put Microsoft's Post software on Nokia phones. Palm Pre owners were surprised to learn that Palm has been collecting their finding data ever since, well ... they agreed to those terms in their contracts. Meanwhile, a Google fastness expert cautioned that hacks directed at smartphones will growing as the devices grow in popularity. Plaintiffs in the Microsoft antitrust case expressed startle that the company has yet again been using Windows to push its Internet Explorer browser onto end-users. For ever, computer makers will not have to deal with Chinese politics after the country's authority sacked plans to introduce an Internet filtering program on PCs.

1. Microsoft, Nokia group to put Office apps on mobile phones : Some Microsoft Backing productivity applications will appear on Nokia phones starting in 2010. Microsoft finds itself on the defensive as Google and other competitors imperil its lucrative Office business with cheaper alternatives. The companies prominent that this collaboration will not extend to mobile operating systems, where Microsoft and Nokia sell competing products.

Source: San Francisco Chronicle