For Nokia, removing the costs associated with navigation for drivers and pedestrians allows the company to quickly activate a massive user base to which it can offer new location features, content and services. This is part of Nokia’s strategy to lead the market in mobile maps, navigation and location-based services.

The two companies will initially focus on graphics and mobile memory solutions and will further review a potential collaboration on server and high-speed NAND Flash memories.

To support the growing interest by enterprises for mobile collaboration and social networking, Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced that it is further mobilizing IBM (NYSE: IBM) Lotus® Software on the BlackBerry® platform.

Unitel’s customers will now be able to enjoy the productivity benefits of using BlackBerry smartphones to stay connected to people and information on the go. Users will benefit from enhanced communications, with easy, wireless access to email, phone, calendar, web, multimedia and a range of other business and leisure applications.

IBM and Research In Motion (RIM) (Nasdaq: RIMM; TSX: RIM) today announced the availability of rich, new social networking applications for BlackBerry smartphones.

Eastman Kodak Company (NYSE:EK) announced today that it has filed lawsuits against Apple Inc. and Research In Motion Limited (RIM) alleging the infringement of Kodak digital imaging technology.

The UN has requested that Ericsson (NASDAQ:ERIC) deploy its Ericsson Response organization to aid relief work in disaster-stricken Haiti. Ericsson has had 20 volunteers on stand-by and will now send four, all telecom experts, to set up a container-based mini GSM-system to enable mobile communication in the area.

T-Mobile USA, Inc. today announced that the company is taking a number of steps to provide relief and help unite families in the aftermath the earthquake disaster in Haiti.

The market research firm’s Global Telecoms Insights study reveals that 55 per cent of Canadians are planning to buy a mobile phone within the next six months, up from just 19 per cent at this time last year.

LG Electronics (LG), a global leader and technology innovator in mobile communications, was featured in Paul Otellini’s Intel CES keynote, with the world’s first demonstration of the LG GW990.