LAS VEGAS, United States—Nokia and Sony announced they are developing an open and common middleware platform with the intent of achieving interoperability between mobile handsets and consumer devices, and between their respective service platforms.
The companies said the aim of the effort is to make the results of their cooperation available to third parties in the future.
Nokia and Sony said they will work to allow communication between various types of devices, moves that will cover technical areas such as new user interfaces, content downloading, multimedia messaging, open digital rights management, and compatibility on implementing IPv6.
