IT-Director: Nokia forges Europe's mobile future, threatens the silicon boy wonders. | Linux Today

IT-Director: Nokia forges Europe’s mobile future, threatens the silicon boy wonders.

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 8, 1999

“…Nokia looks fixed to be setting a number of standards,
not only for mobile phones but also for PDAs and ultimately for
computing devices.
Why? Because they are all part of the same
infrastructure.”

“With Ericsson and Motorola, Nokia has brought WAP to market
without a glitch, to the demise of 3Com’s WebClipping and
Microsoft’s MicroBrowser technology

With Palm and Symbian, Nokia has settled on the next generation
of OS for its devices, sidelining Windows CE and giving both Palm
and Symbian every reason to be cheerful

“…with Ericsson and others, Nokia has been instrumental to the
success of Bluetooth which… looks set to bypass other wireless
local networking protocols…

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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