Global vendor strategies - 5/1/06

Nokia has been fined to pay $252m to InterDigital for patent breach.

Symantec bought Imlogic, an instant messaging expert.

Skype announced seven deals with Kodak, D-Link, Netgear, Creative and Panasonic, to develop the Skype “ecosystem”, reinforce its leadership on VoIP and enlarge its customer base to non-PC users (i.e. handsets). All products are for the consumer market and marketed under Skype brand.

Opera Software has selected Google as its preferred search engine.