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...more is on the way. One service already attracting a lot of attention is a pilot project between MeritaNordbanken, the Finnish cell-phone maker Nokia, and Visa International, the credit-card company. Nokia will soon have available in Finland cell phones that contain two chips, one for mobile-telephone service and one from Visa that adds a nifty credit-card function to the handset. The Visa chip will allow a customer to hold the phone near a cash register and push a button to pay a bill rather than having a clerk swipe a credit card. The digital mobile phone...
...decision was also welcomed by Microsoft's rivals. Thomas Vinje, the lawyer for the European Committee for Interoperable Systems (ECIS), a group of technology companies that includes IBM, Nokia, Oracle and Sun Microsystems, said, "This is a great day for European businesses and consumers." He added: "At long last, the decision opens the prospect for dynamic competition in the software industry. No more user lock-in, no more monopoly pricing." He said the ruling was a landmark that set standard for Microsoft's future conduct - and empowered the Commission to impose it on the European market if necessary...
...Nokia has big hopes for Ovi against iTunes. "I've never participated in a competition where I finish number two," says Vanjoki. It also hopes Ovi helps it to sell more higher-profit higher end phones, although Nokia will eventually need a touch screen phone to match Apple...
...Many of those, like the Nokia Music Store, will become part of the umbrella Ovi Website that will mark the company's formal Internet coming out when it launches later this year. Ovi - the Finnish word for "door" - could even offer TV programs at some point. Vanjoki, who is in charge of marketing Ovi, says it will includes millions of songs from all 4 major record labels as well as from regional bands. Nokia has set a European price of 1 Euro for a tune, and of 10 Euros for a CD. It has not finalized U.K. pricing, but when...
...Internet weather report on his cellphone, indicating the showers would soon cease and allow him to resume playing. His impressed golf mates asked, "What do you have in that thing?" Long time business partners are now probably asking the same question, but not necessarily in the same approving manner. Nokia will manage, but it can expect a few storms along...