Nokia, believing it can capitalise on the strength of its patent portfolio, will see around 2,000 of its patents and applications acquired to Canada-based Mosaid, which will earn both companies additional revenues from settlements and licensing deals. Nokia’s patents will now be owned by a new company formed by Mosaid, earning a third of the royalties from the patent portfolio. It won’t pay Nokia for the patents, instead it is expected to generate income from lawsuits and settlements from potential patent infringers, which utilise patented ideas and technologies....

Updates at the foot of the post. According toE’s Phone Blog, Nokia is to shut down its Ovi Music Unlimited subscription service in Finland, with it possible that the company might close the service in other markets also. Nokia offered a one year subscription to Ovi Music Unlimited with the purchase of new Nokia mobile phones, allowing its customers to download as much music as they wished and keep the tracks once the subscription period ended....

Nokia is starting afresh, giving its existing customers exactly what they need. Today, the Finnish mobile manufacturer hasannouncedthe release of its newNokia Software Updater for Mac, a tool previously only available for Windows users. The tool will provide Nokia handset owners with the ability to update their phones using a USB cable connected to their desktop computer, instead of relying on over-the-air (OTA) updates that could lead to large data costs and possible disconnections whilst downloading....

Mobile advertising firm,InMobihas an interesting recent report on mobile advertising in Africa. The report reveals current trends and industry drivers shaping the continent’s evolving mobile ad space. In terms of devices, Nokia remains the continent’s dominant device manufacturer accounting for about 61% of mobile ad impressions. Its Nokia 6300 series phones is the most popular device on the continent and at present, 12 of the top 15 devices in Africa, are Nokia brand handsets....

Nokia has been named in a patent lawsuit after Helferich Patent Licensing sued the Finnish mobile giant in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois for infringing seven mobile patents. The complaint focuses on push messaging and user interface patents, accusing Nokia’s devices including the Nokia N8, X6, E72, E73, 2329, 5800, 6350 of infringing technologies assigned to Helferich Patent Licensing. The seven patents include: US6087956: Paging transceivers and methods for selectively erasing information, US7003304: Paging transceivers and methods for selectively retrieving messages, US6983138: User interface for message access, US6097941: User interface for voice message access, US7280838: Paging transceivers and methods for selectively retrieving messages, US7376432: Paging transceivers and methods for selectively retrieving messages and US7499716: System and method for delivering information to a transmitting and receiving device....