Siemens, Microsoft plan technology for vehicles

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Microsoft Corp. and German electronics and engineering firm Siemens AG will work together to develop information, navigation, entertainment, and communication products for vehicles. Financial details regarding the deal were not disclosed. Production on the first of the technologies is expected to begin in 2009.

Prepackaged software, Product development, Engine electrical equipment, Automotive Electronics, Other Motor Vehicle Electrical and Electronic Equipment Manufacturing, Computer software industry, Software industry, Microsoft Corp., MSFT, Siemens AG, Motor vehicles

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T-Mobile's exclusive iPhone pacts upheld

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Germany's Hamburg District Court has ruled that T-Mobile International AG und Company KG can lock in its Apple Inc. iPhone customers in Germany into a two-year exclusive contract. The ruling reverses an injunction obtained by the German unit of Vodafone Group PLC barring T-Mobile from making such a contract.

Electronic computers, Legal issues & crime, Germany, Legal/Government Regulation, Computer industry, Company legal issue, Cases, Microcomputer industry, AAPL, T-Mobile International AG und Company KG, Contracts (International law), Apple Inc.

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Safran unit to produce Vodafone-brand phones

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Sagem, a unit of Safran S.A., has agreed to manufacture low-cost global system for mobile communications (GSM) extra-slim handsets exclusively for Vodafone Group PLC. Financial details of the deal were not provided.

Radio and Television Broadcasting and Wireless Communications Equipment Manufacturing, Cellular Mobile Tel Equip, Cellular telephones, Wireless telephones, France, GSM, Societe d'Applications Generales d'Electricite et de Mecanique, Wireless telephone, Wireless voice/data device, GSM (Global System for Mobile Communications)

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