Nokia and Yahoo have announced today in New York, a strategical alliance to jointly offer e-mail services, instant messaging, mapping and navigation. The Internet search engine Yahoo and the largest mobile phone maker in the world Nokia have reached a partnership through which Yahoo will offer Web services for Nokia terminals.
Under the agreement, submitted by the two CEOs of both companies, Carol Bartz by Yahoo and Kallasvuo Olli-Peka contributing to Nokia, the Finnish company exclusively offer maps and navigation services for Yahoo. Thus, the search will be integrated into the Nokia Maps service, Ovi Maps.
At the same time, mail services and services that incorporate into your Nokia smartphones are offered by Yahoo. The companies expect that during the second half of this year the results of this alliance in online services will already be available, although its global launch will not take place until 2011.
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