-- Lonely Planet-Nokia Maps tie-up: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) has struck a distribution deal with Lonely Planet, which will provide Nokia Maps with downloadable destination guides. The guides, which are located in the Guides section in the Extras menu, cost 7.99 euros and can be downloaded over the air on select devices or sideloaded via a PC (release).
-- Garmin gets local: Garmin has inked a deal with location-based application firm Ulocate to put its software Where.com on to some of its devices—though no specifics yet on which one, reports CNET. Where gives users access to Yelp reviews, GasBuddy, and the company's own Buddy Beacon software—which can be joined to a Facebook application to let users share their current locations with friends.
-- UK weather service to provide video forecasts: The UK's state weather service Met Office is planning to offer made-for mobile video forecasts to operators, aggregators and handset firms, reports Mobile Entertainment. Currently, its mobile efforts have been confined to streamed bulletins on the MobiTV services of British broadcaster ITN. Met Office Media, the commercial arm of the weather tracker, has already plowed a "six-figure" sum to target new channels, including mobile.
-- Palringo pushes talk on iPhone: Mobile instant messaging firm Palringo has added "Push to Talk"—or what it calls the vocal instant messaging—to its free iPhone application. Unlike most "push to talk" services from carriers, Palringo integrates with several existing IM services, including AOL's (NYSE: TWX) AIM, Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Talk, Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO) Messenger, Gadu Gadu, ICQ, Jabber, Windows Live Messenger, as well as Apple's iChat (release).
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