The Finnish giant has acquired Novarra company, which technology can compress and show websites for their adequate display on the screens of mobile phones in a various formats, and the Canadian producer bought Viigo, software developer for the delivery of syndicated content to phones.
Technologies of Novarra will facilitate the strengthening of expertise of Nokia in matters of internet surfing on low-cost devices, such as on the Series 40 platform. Nokia is interested in promoting mobile internet access in developing countries, where cheap phones are available, which users still like to get a full mobile browsing.
The software products of Viigo are presented by the user mobile client, which aggregate and deliver to the phones a variety of information including weather forecasts, news briefs, sport events, stock quotes, etc. There is also an enterprise-level solutions for the subscription of staff at the information business flows of the company.
