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[Habi70]

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[IngChris]

Antwort auf Beitrag Nr.: 48.594.473 von LeoKreis am 17.12.14 13:33:23

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[dandrin]

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[ellexi]

Nokia Expands HERE Maps Client Base With Baidu Partnership

Nokia‘s mapping division HERE recently partnered with Chinese Internet major Baidu to provide map services outside China, which will be available for use to Chinese customers on their desktops as well as smartphones (Windows Phone OS, Android and iOS). Baidu becomes the first Chinese company to offer international location services to Chinese tourists travelling abroad, and its decision to partner with Nokia is as strategic as it is a validation of HERE’s mapping expertise. Baidu could not have partnered with its competitor Google for obvious reasons, and Apple‘s service does not work on platforms other than iOS. Therefore, HERE is an apt choice for the Chinese company, with its maps in over 200 countries and voice-navigation facility in 118 nations. HERE’s expansive international presence is especially important considering that Baidu is targeting China’s rapidly growing tourist outflow with this deal. The number of Chinese people travelling to foreign countries has topped 100 million so far in 2014, with travel destinations ranging from neighboring Hong Kong and Taiwan to North America, Europe and Africa.

It has been a busy year for Nokia’s HERE maps division. Other recent developments include the launch of HERE maps on the Android platform on Google Play and the announcement of its launch on the iOS platform in early 2015. Similar to its functionality on the Windows OS, the free-of-cost HERE maps application is now available offline on Android as well, downloadable on Google Maps. HERE maps is also available on Samsung‘s Tizen-powered devices such as its new Gear S smartwatch. The recent licensing agreements are in line with Nokia’s strategy of focusing on autos and smartphones to expand its HERE business, and we expect the cross-platform availability to help Nokia expand its share rapidly in the global smartphone maps market, currently dominated by Google Maps.

The HERE Business

HERE is Nokia’s mapping and location intelligence business, which currently contributes less than 3% of the company’s valuation, according to our estimates. The division’s sales grew by 12% year-over-year to EUR 236 million ($299 million) in the third quarter this year, on the back of rising sales to automobile customers and higher revenue realization from services offered to Microsoft. Sales to automobile customers represent over 50% of total HERE sales, and the growth in the quarter was aided by higher auto sales as well as higher uptake of in-vehicle navigation systems by customers.

Nokia has built the business primarily through acquisitions, starting with its buyout of Berlin-based gate5 in 2006, followed by the acquisition of Chicago-based Navteq for $8.1 billion in 2008 and 3-D map technology expert Earthmine in 2012. The company also made a few interesting acquisitions this year, including Desti and Medio Systems, to make its HERE unit more personalized and intuitive and boost the long-term potential of its mapping business.

Nokia provides its map data to 80% of all car-navigation systems in the world and several major enterprises including Amazon, Yahoo and Microsoft. Microsoft is one of Nokia’s biggest customers, with its four-year licensing deal to use HERE on its mobile devices. We expect the recent efforts to expand HERE on non-Windows platforms as well as recent acquisitions and investments to help the company lay a solid foundation for its long-term growth and attract customers going forward.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/greatspeculations/2014/12/17/nok…

[ellexi]

Nokia HERE prepares maps for autonomous cars

Autonomous cars will need a new kind of map, a crucial element that until now has been given a back seat to the more popularly discussed issues of sensors and legal questions. Senior Writer Greg Miller in Wired put maps back into the car-of-the-future perspective this week. Autonomous cars, he said, will require maps that differ in several important ways from the maps that automobile drivers depend on today for directions. They need to be high-definition, he said, as "autonomous cars will need maps that can tell them where the curb is within a few centimeters." They will need to be live, with second by second updates on accidents, traffic snarls and closed lanes. They will need to take human psychology into account and win the trust of their passengers. Nokia HERE, which is the maps division of the company, is making efforts to build high-definition maps for autonomous vehicles. HD maps will tell an autonomous car what to expect along its route.

To build its digital maps, HERE starts with satellite and aerial imagery and incorporates "probe data" collected by trucking companies and other fleet operators whose vehicles contain GPS devices. This is anonymized data from the GPS devices, said Miller in Wired, and it collects at a rate of 100 billion points per month. As such, it allows engineers at HERE's Berkeley, California, control center to populate the maps upon which its fleet relies with up-to-the-second traffic information. In addition to the probe data are details provided by HERE's own fleet—nearly 200 cars equipped with GPS, cameras, and lidar, said IEEE Spectrum.
The lidar system is described in Wired as "a cylinder about the size of a soda can" which "spins around, shooting out 32 laser beams and analyzing the light that bounces back." John Ristevski, HERE's head of reality capture, said it collects 700,000 points per second. The lidar instrument's range tops out about 10 to 15 stories above the street; at street level, resolution is just a few centimeters, said Miller. This fleet is coordinated from a building near the university of California, Berkeley. The sensors on the cars were developed by Ristevski.
About 200 cars have the sensor system that Ristevski designed, Miller reported, and the company has a similar number of cars with an older generation of equipment. To tell the story firsthand of its ongoing mapping plan for self-driving cars, Nokia HERE gave Wired reporters a look at their mission-control headquarters and a ride in one of the fleet's autonomous vehicles. Miller saw the sweep of their effort, where "green tags indicated cars actively mapping roads on the west coast and a couple tags indicated that drivers in Australia were off to an early start. The tags in Europe and the east coast were grayed out, done driving for the day."



Writing about Nokia's mapping aspirations, Chris Davies, executive editor of SlashGear, said last month that "Nokia's HERE team is working toward a self-healing mapping system for autonomous cars, tackling the thorny issue of rapidly out-of-date navigation data by giving self-driving vehicles the intelligence to cook up their own HD maps."
With the challenges of a constantly evolving road network, HERE's ambition involves a fleet of smart cars as key to keeping the data clean. Davies explained that HERE has its own maps project, increasing the resolution and detail in its mapping by using accurate sensors mounted on top of a team of cars, and gathering data such as lane markings, curb height and more.

http://phys.org/news/2014-12-nokia-autonomous-cars.html

[ellexi]

Nokia eyes sale of Chennai unit, asks govt to lift asset freeze

Finnish telecom company Nokia has requested the government to lift the asset freeze imposed by tax authorities on its manufacturing unit in Sriperumbudur near Chennai, so that it can explore potential opportunities for a sale.

Operations at Nokia’s Chennai unit were suspended following a sale of its handset division to Microsoft early this year. However, the Nokia plant was left out of the deal, since there were a few tax-related issues and an asset freeze imposed by taxmen.

Official sources have attributed the production slump in Nokia’s Chennai factory to the sharp slide in India’s factory output in October. Index for industrial production fell 4.2%, while the manufacturing sector, which accounts for 75% of total factory output, fell 7.6% during the month.

Output of telephone instruments including cellphones and accessories fell 78.3% during the month, mirroring faltering operations at the Nokia plant.

The company has told the government that sale of this asset will help generate employment and also support the government’s ‘Make in India’ campaign. It has argued that this is an urgent prerogative not only for Nokia, which is no longer in the business of making mobile phones, but also for the country to move towards its goal of supporting local manufacturing and reducing electronic imports.

“We believe that an eventual sale would offer a far brighter option for employment in the region and support the governments ‘Make in India’ initiative,” a Nokia spokesperson said in an emailed response.

In an email to HT, Nokia also acknowledged that it is scouting for a suitable buyer for its Chennai unit. “Nokia can confirm that it has been approached by parties interested in buying the Chennai facility, but due to confidentiality reasons we will not comment further,” the company spokesperson said.

Nokia had even entered into a transitional services agreement with Microsoft to address their immediate production needs and keep the factory operational. Microsoft terminated the agreement in October, and Nokia suspended production at the plant as of November 1 as it had no further orders.

“The Centre is sympathetic about the Nokia plant, but cannot help, since, it will set a bad precedent, which we cannot allow... the law of the land will have to be followed,” a top communications ministry official said.

http://www.hindustantimes.com/business-news/nokia-eyes-sale-…

[ellexi]

genug News

[dandrin]

da soll mir mal einer sagen das ich kein Optimist bin,, ha ha ha ,, ep 3.75 und bin immernoch dabei, was soll ich wegen Kursschwankungen von +- o.80 ct nervös werden..??? und ich bleibe, da nächstes jahr noch einige Überraschungen kommen könnten... ich habe genügend luft zum meinem ep , kann kommen was will. mein stop steht auch ,ich nehem es gelassen...

[ellexi]

Nokia Networks und Alcatel-Lucent sprechen wieder über eine Fusion

Die Netzwerkausrüster Nokia Networks und Alcatel-Lucent hatten bereits über eine Fusion verhandelt - und haben die einst abgebrochenen Gespräche im Herbst erneut aufgenommen. Zur Diskussion steht auch eine mögliche Kooperation.

Hamburg - Die beiden europäischen Netzwerkausrüster Nokia Networks und Alcatel-Lucent haben Gespräche über einen möglichen Zusammenschluss wieder aufgenommen. Das berichtet das manager magazin in seiner neuen Ausgabe (Erscheinungstermin: 19. Dezember) und beruft sich dabei auf Unternehmensinsider.

Nach dem Verkauf des Handygeschäfts an Microsoft stellt Nokia-Chef Rajeev Suri den Konzern derzeit neu auf und lotet dabei Wachstumsoptionen aus. Nokia Networks, die Netzwerksparte Nokias, und der französische Konkurrent Alcatel-Lucent hatten 2013 erstmals Gespräche über eine Fusion geführt, diese aber abgebrochen.
Seit Herbst dieses Jahres gebe es wieder Kontakt, schreibt das manager magazin. Mögliche Szenarien seien eine Fusion oder eine enge Kooperation. Ein Nokia-Sprecher teilte mit, man kommentiere keine Marktgerüchte.

Enormer Wettbewerbsdruck in der Branche

Die Netzwerkausrüster-Industrie leidet seit Jahren unter enormem Wettbewerbsdruck. Für einen Zusammenschluss des Branchendritten und des Branchenvierten gäbe es deshalb gute Gründe: So verfügen die Franzosen im Gegensatz zu Nokia Networks über eine eigene Festnetztechnologie.

Durch einen Zusammenschluss oder eine Kooperation könnte Suri sein Angebot in Zukunft den Bedürfnissen seiner Kunden besser anpassen, die verstärkt Festnetz- und Mobilfunkangebote aus einer Hand vertreiben.
Dem Bericht zufolge sondiert Suri zudem auch den Einstieg ins Geschäft mit Wearables wie Fitnessarmbänder oder Uhren mit Computern. Dafür habe sich der finnische Konzern eigens die Expertise ehemaliger Nokianer zugekauft, schreibt das manager magazin weiter. Ein Nokia-Sprecher wollte sich zu dem Thema nicht äußern.

Erst vor ein paar Wochen hatte der ehemals größte Handyhersteller der Welt ein neues Tablet auf den Markt gebracht, wobei Nokia seine Marke an andere Fertiger lizenziert. Mit diesem Geschäftsmodell will Suri neue Umsatzquellen erschließen.

http://www.manager-magazin.de/unternehmen/it/nokia-networks-…

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http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/12/18/us-alcatel-lucent-…

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