Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Gadget Maker or Service Provider? Firms Start to Overlap

g "Nokia used to be just a cellphone maker. Google used to be just an Internet company.

Nokia’s new music and gaming phone. Nokia is taking aim at Google, Apple and others.

Now Nokia wants to be an Internet company and Google, according to rampant speculation among bloggers and technology analysts, may be about to enter the mobile phone fray.

“Devices alone are not enough anymore,” Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo, chief executive of Nokia, said last week in London as the company announced plans for a digital music store, a game service, social networking links and other mobile Internet initiatives, grouped under a new brand, Ovi. “People want more; they want the complete experience.”"

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