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Touchscreen mobile competition intensifies :)

Notice the competition in the mobile industry, with three biggies making a dive within a span of few months. After Apple's iPhone and Google's Android , Nokia finally unveiled its highly anticipated touchscreen phone - 5800 XpressMusic.

However Nokia's offering is relatively less sophisticated and priced lower than iPhone. It would be interesting to watch, how Apple reacts to price war after Nokia's launch. Recently, both Google and Apple has opened their operating system for developers. Can Nokia take this step to stay in competition?

More on http://www.smh.com.au/news/mobiles--handhelds/articles/nokia-takes-wraps-off-touchscreen-phone/2008/10/05/1223145150368.html

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Internet advertisement partnership deal of "Yahoo- Google" postponed

This deal was about creating a monopoly in online advertising industry. As "Google + Yahoo" handles more than 80% of searches in the US, this deal would shift more power towards search giants.

"Consumer advocates and customers questioned whether the deal would give Google too much control over advertising and information on the Web" - Bloomberg.com

US regulators did a good job to postpone this deal.

Reference : http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aYSDlnCKuC1k&refer=us

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Google's new challenge to Apple

Recently, Google jumped into the mobile handsets market with its handset powered by Google's open-source operating system – “Android”. This affected business model of its competitor Apple, and the later had to drop non-disclosure agreement for iPhone OS (Operating System) software developers to stay in competition .

We see a lot of trends towards adoption of open source software revenue model. Few years back this model was adopted by only few companies and now its the most talked about model. As apple does not have reputation of providing open source products, I wonder how Apple will handle this new threat!

Reference: http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8ZFu9Q_l6CX8fWoVUbsX3Yd5Smw