The Global Fund assesses every application sent to it, and tries to support all those deemed worthy.

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The company says it intended to renew its application following a global pediatric trial already under way.

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It also sports Nokia Music introducing MixRadio, a free global music streaming application with hundreds of channels.

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It says the application should provide information about possible domestic and global threats superimposed onto maps "using mash-up technology".

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The department rejected the sole application because it "received no proposals that met the requirements requested by the global community".

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Nokia is adding to the list of global companies that is using the emerging markets as a test bed to discover new products and services suitable to those markets. ( IBM is another one where a need in India is driving global innovation for it.) It is doing this via its Ovi Life Tools, a set of mobile information and application services.

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