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Nokia and Microsoft have decided to join forces in order to develop applications for the S60 Operating System. In fact, the two companies have just announced the release of an application for mobile productivity called Microsoft Communicator Mobile.

Thanks to the software, compatible for now with E72 and E52 and soon to be compatible with the E5, and available in English on the Ovi Store, it’s possible to view the availability of co-workers, communicating with them by choosing the best option, be that IM, SMS, email or even a phone call.

Interesting, and it has potential for much more. We’ll have to wait and see where it goes.

AT&T, Orange, Telefonica, China Mobile, Deutsche Telecom, Telecom Italia, Sprint, Vodafone, Wind and a dozen more international mobile phone carriers have announced the Wholesale Application Community, that has the goal of creating an alternative to the close market from Apple when it comes to applications.

As for the hardware, LG, Samsung and Sony Ericsson have joined the group of carriers to develop an Open source system to develop and distribute applications. What’s currently lacking in quality, as the development is still on its early stages, it can be compensated with the numbers: the alliance should cover around three billion clients all over the world.

The Blackberry App World, online store for the Blackberry models, has finally been launched. Users can connect to the BlackBerry App World and buy applications and games without the need of a computer.

There are free applications as well, and similar to the Windows Marketplace, RIM has enabled PayPal payments and is currently studying other options to make the system faster and less complicated.

The Blackberry App World is currently only available on the USA, Canada and UK, and it can be downloaded from this official link. It also gives more information about the applications and the service.

Big announcement from Yahoo! in Barcellona. After the last month’s indecisions about its presence in the mobile sector, it seems that the company has finally decided to invest resources on the market.

The beta testing for the new Yahoo! Mobile service will start on March 2009, at least for the United the States, and it should be concluded by the end of June. The service will introduce a new mobile web portal, a new iPhone application and applications for Nokia, Blackberry, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and Windows Mobile smartphones.

In a nutshell, it’s a corrected and reviewed version of Yahoo! Go!, in which are integrated Yahoo oneConnect and Yahoo onePlace, announced a few months ago but never released, except a beta version for the iPhone. Yahoo’s intentions the fusion of those services in one plaftorm are, according to the official press release:

* Discover: via results from Yahoo!’s award-winning mobile search, editor-selected content, and new maps tools.
* Stay Connected: through access to their email and social network accounts from the most popular Web providers, as well as instant messaging, address book and calendar tools.
* Stay Informed: by bringing together favorite content - websites, sports teams, news sources, RSS feeds, weather, stocks, horoscopes and more - into a single location.

Initially, Yahoo! Mobile will be available in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, France, Germany, India, Indonesia and The Philippines, and other countries might see it throughout the year. From the images released, the idea seems rather solid and well-developed. But we couldn’t help but notice the absence of Android as a supported Operational System.

Coincidence?