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Nokia Invested In Mozilla?

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the dial-m-for-money dept.

Pine UK writes "The Register, is reporting that Nokia has invested in the Mozilla Foundation. This news should come as a shock to Opera, who in recent times have had a very large market share in the area of portable device browsers. Opera has also been the browser choice for Nokia, who ship it with all their Symbian 'smartphones.' Nokia have not yet confirmed nor denied their investment in Mozilla."

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  1. Was on CNet yesterday by anandpur · · Score: 5, Informative

    Also repoted by CNet yesterday

  2. Nokia has confirmed the deal by amacedo · · Score: 5, Informative

    Well, sort of. Check out this article at News.com

    It comes as no suprise since Nokia's strategy has clearly been one of standardization.

    And what better way to standardized than to support an open source project?

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  3. There's life beyond smartphones by vesuri · · Score: 5, Informative

    Even though Nokia is widely known as a mobile phone manufacturer they do have other products as well. Their plans to incorporate Mozilla into their DVB products (the Mediamaster product line) as the web browser component have been public for a couple of years now.

  4. heise.de confirmed this yesterday by mksolutions · · Score: 5, Informative

    as you can see heise.de which is very reliable posted this story yesterday.

    Nokia wants to use Minimo in their smartphones.