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Espoo, Finland and Munich, Germany - The European Commission today announced that it has approved the planned transaction to merge the Networks Business Group of Nokia and the carrier-related operations of Siemens into a new company, to be called Nokia Siemens Networks. According to the Commission’s assessment, the transaction would not restrict effective competition in the relevant markets of mobile and fixed telecom networks and services.
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Nokia commissioned report from the London School of Economics gives valuable insights into the impact of mobility on television

London, UK - Personalisation and interactivity will be the key drivers of mobile TV according to a new report commissioned by Nokia and conducted by Dr Shani Orgad from the London School of Economics. The report, titled ‘This Box Was Made For Walking’, examines the future impact of mobile TV on the broadcasting and advertising industries.
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New York, NY, USA - Nokia announced today that Associated Carrier Group (ACG) has selected Intellisync Wireless Email from Nokia as the wireless email offering for its member carriers. Developed as a single, manageable platform for both mobile carriers and enterprises, Intellisync Wireless Email from Nokia provides network-based wireless e-mail, synchronization of data and files and integrated device management - all over-the-air.

“Wireless E-mail represents an under-penetrated market for wireless carriers,” said ACG President Greg Latour. “The ability to use Intellisync software from Nokia on both Palm OS and Windows Mobile 5.0 positions us well in today’s marketplace.”
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Espoo, Finland - Nokia’s world leading HSDPA (High Speed Downlink Packet Access) solution is powering Australian telecommunications company SingTel Optus’ HSDPA trials in Australia. The trials began in October in Canberra.

“These trials are just another example of Optus reviewing cutting edge technologies. We are always exploring faster, better and more efficient ways to deliver high speed services to our customers,” says Warren Hardy, Managing Director, Consumer Division, Optus.
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This win establishes Nokia as a leader in the strategic service delivery platform market

Espoo, Finland - PT Hutchison CP Telecommunications (Hutchison Telecom Indonesia) has selected Nokia to supply and manage a complete Service Delivery Platform (SDP) solution as part of the operator’s GSM/WCDMA 3G rollout. The platform comprises a mobile portal for data and voice, supporting the delivery of value added end-user services such as games, news, music, video streaming and downloading, along with over-the-air provisioning of the appropriate settings to mobile devices.

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A total of 235,272 shares of Nokia Corporation (”Nokia”) were subscribed for as of October 30, 2006 based on Nokia’s 2003 and 2005 employee stock option plans. This resulted in an increase of EUR 14,116.32 in Nokia’s share capital and an increase of EUR 3,261,160.38 in other shareholders equity. The new shares carry full shareholder rights as from the registration date, November 3, 2006. The shares are admitted to public trading on the Helsinki Exchanges as of the same date together with the old Nokia share class (NOK1V).

As a result of the increase, the share capital of Nokia is currently EUR 245,676,235.38 and the total number of shares is 4,094,603,923 including the shares that are held by the company.

Announces Stanford University as the first in a series of local research collaborations

Palo Alto, CA, USA - Nokia today announced the expansion of its global research activities with the opening of a facility located in Silicon Valley. Nokia Research Center, which recently celebrated its 20 year anniversary, has a mandate to inspire innovation, drive renewal, and develop next generation mobile technologies. To foster open innovation, Nokia also announced a three-year agreement with Stanford University, to develop joint research projects on collaborative mobile computing and applications.

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Espoo, Finland - Nokia and Vodafone Australia have signed a USD 230 million, seven-year managed services agreement that includes engineering, operations and maintenance of Vodafone’s HSDPA, 3G, GPRS and GSM networks.

As part of the arrangement, Nokia will be responsible for managing Vodafone Australia’s ongoing network operations covering HSDPA, 3G, GSM and core networks infrastructure including the detailed design, engineering, optimization operations as well as network management, monitoring, fieldwork and maintenance services for the networks.

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Agreement makes Nokia the leading GPRS network provider in the Guangdong province

Espoo, Finland - Nokia, a leading mobile network supplier in China, announced today that it has signed a GPRS packet core network expansion contract with Guangdong Mobile Communications Corporation Ltd. (Guangdong MCC). Nokia will provide its intelligent GPRS packet core solution for the 8th GPRS expansion of Guangdong MCC and will thus become the leading GPRS network provider in the province.
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A vote to make Microsoft Office document formats an international standard was approved last Thursday, according to a Microsoft representative.

At the general assembly of ECMA International in Zurich, Switzerland, Microsoft’s Office Open XML — a set of specifications detailing the document formats in Microsoft’s office — was certified as a standard.

In addition, the membership-based standards organisation voted to propose Office Open XML to the larger International Organisation for Standardisation (known as ISO) for standards approval through its fast-track process, a Microsoft representative confirmed.

The vote to accept Microsoft’s submission as a standard was expected. The ISO standardisation process typically takes about nine months, according to experts.

IBM, which has been a vocal advocate of another standard called open document, or ODF, voted against making Open XML a standard. ODF was passed earlier this month as an ISO standard.

Microsoft said on Thursday that it will release five security fixes for this Tuesday’s patch release. A sixth patch will fix a known issue with Visual Studio that is spreading in the wild.

The company did not mention exactly how many flaws and vulnerabilities these updates will fix, but it did warn users that the recently disclosed security hole in Microsoft Word was not included. This exploit found by researchers at CERT is listed as severe to critical and was reported earlier this week. They are working to release an update for this but need more time to do so.

As always when Microsoft releases its Tech Bulletins there was no mention of exact details of the exploits, which are the cause of these security issues. Of the updates released Tuesday, the highest rating is Critical with the others being of lesser ratings.

The new version of the MSW-MSRT (Microsoft Windows Malicious Software Removal Tool) will also be included with the updates offered.

On top of the Security releases, Microsoft will release fourteen non-security related updates. Four of these are flagged as High-Priority and ten of these will be rated with various levels.

Flanked by his band, Justin King sits at a piano in the middle of a performance hall and lip syncs his song “Bright and Dirty Lights” as a crowd slowly starts to form around the musicians.

As smoke swirls around the floor and people surround the band with tentative, curious looks on their faces, King switches to an electric guitar and the music intensifies. The crowd members jump up and down, pump their arms, laugh and shake their hair around.

King and his band are shooting a video to promote their music, and part of how they got the volunteer extras into Agate Hall for the crowd scene was posting notice of the open video shoot on a MySpace.com bulletin.

Parents are not the only ones keeping a watchful eye on my space.

Five school districts we contacted in the Rio Grande Valley say they have blocked the website from school computers.

Administrators with the Brownsville, Harlingen, McAllen, La Joya, and Rio Grande City have all banned MySpace on campuses.

Most parents are happy the find out, the school district has stayed one step ahead of them.

Adam Cervantes just learned about MySpace from watching the Action 4 News investigation.

“Some of the pictures of these girls, they went too far. It can be dangerous,” says Cervantes.

He doesn’t agree with what he saw, but he hasn’t yet talked to his children about it.

“I don’t even think they know about it,” he tells us.

Cervantes quickly found out he was wrong. 18 year old Michael said he had heard of the website, but never been on it.

Other Harlingen students tell us it’s hard to miss the constant chatter.

When a scorned wife in Birmingham discovered her husband was having an affair with her best friend, she decided a 2,500-pound ad was the perfect way to embarrass him.

Addressed to her love-cheat husband “Mark” and her best friend “Shelley”, the message read: “You are the most despicable, deceitful people I have ever met.

“I know what you did and I’m disgusted.

“I’ve changed the locks Mark, burnt your clothes and emptied OUR joint account - to pay for this poster.

“You deserve each other.”

Within hours of the billboard appearing in Birmingham city centre on Friday, the 37-year-old woman, identified only as ‘Jane’ and mother-of-two, was inundated with messages of support, according to the Daily Mail newspaper.

The woman also posted messages in Myspace.com website. The message reads: “If you are reading this, I guess you are wondering what this is all about.”

“He tried to fight back. Every time he did that others would jump in and one of them took out a metal-ringed belt,” said Lieutenant Colleen Turay.

They beat an 18 year-old man who happens to be Jewish. He ended up bruises, scratched, and scarred. Davis police didn’t have much to go on. They pulled surveillance video from nearby shops, finding a partial license plate in one picture. “So we were already working that angle, but at the same time he ends up coming up with the name on his own,” said Turay.

The victim started working his own investigation. A friend told him about a guy in Vacaville who might be responsible, so the 18-year-old went to a laptop lineup on myspace.com, finding the guy who beat him.

Davis detectives caught up with 18-year-old Sean Kennedy near his home in Vacaville, and the victim didn’t stop with one face and one name.

“He started looking at the people this guy was communicating with and said, ‘yeah, that’s one, and that’s another,” said Turay.

The victim’s myspace sleuthing skills led cops to a 17-year-old suspect who’s also under arrest. And myspace is helping police pick up perpetrators in other cases. Criminals caught digitally red-handed, bragging about what crimes they’ve committed.