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Nokia unveils beta SDK for Ovi app platform
News Nokia has released a beta version of the software development kit for its Ovi application platform. The Ovi SDK is a web-based toolbox for developers that lets them develop web services and applications for handsets running either of Nokia's two...
[September 4, 2009, 12:58]
Nokia's Ovi Store launch marred by server issues
News Nokia has rolled out Ovi Store, a marketplace for handset applications, but has seen its servers struggle to deal with user demand. The Ovi Store, launched on Tuesday, is designed to support around 50 Nokia models.
[May 26, 2009, 16:42]
Nokia announces Ovi application store
News The news of Nokia's Ovi Store is hardly a shock. Developers, who will get a 70 percent cut of revenue from the store, will be able to start loading applications to the Ovi.com website starting in March.
[February 16, 2009, 12:36]
VibrateCall-OVI
Downloads Usual Way of making a call:Dial the numberPlace the phone to your ear to wait for person on the other line to answer.Talk when connectedWith VibrateCall:Dial the number, hold phone on your hand.Phone will vibrate awaiting for person on the other...
[May 21, 2009, 8:00]
Nokia and Vodafone team up on web services
News Under the agreement, Nokia's Ovi platform — which includes music, maps, gaming and social networking — is to be introduced on Vodafone handsets from next year. The new platform will offer both Vodafone and Ovi services side by side, including both...
[November 8, 2007, 9:17]
Nokia introduces mobile sat-nav for pedestrians
News The Finnish mobile giant also announced four new handset models — including the replacement for the N95 smartphone — and a content-sharing platform called Ovi. Niklas Savander, executive vice president of services and software for Nokia, introduced...
[February 12, 2008, 11:01]
Analyst: Build apps for platforms other than iPhone
News But pay close attention to other stores like BlackBerry App World, Android Market, Windows Marketplace for Mobile and Nokia's Ovi store. Competing app stores will likely offer slightly different capabilities and processes," the report notes — for...
[May 19, 2009, 15:55]
What Sony Ericsson's up to: Part I
Blog Not to be confused with Nokia's Ovi! So, here we have SE taking aim at iTunes (good luck) and Ovi (itself hardly a resounding success thus far). They barely broke even in the second quarter of this year, have had to lay off thousands of workers...
[September 25, 2008, 0:22]
Nokia updates mapping, messaging services
News Nokia has also tied the latest version of Nokia Maps more closely with its PC-based service, Ovi. The service is also integrated with Ovi and gives users 1GB worth of storage. Nokia has released new versions of its mapping and navigation service...
[December 3, 2008, 11:14]
Nokia slides out E75 and E55 smartphones
News The E75 also includes Ovi Files, which allows for remote file management on your home computer, even when it is switched off. Nokia announced two E-series handsets at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona on Monday: the E75 and the E55.
[February 16, 2009, 15:57]
Nokia buys social travel firm Dopplr
News Over the past year or two, Nokia has been making a concerted push into the online services market, largely through acquisitions and the development of its Ovi applications platform. Nokia has bought Dopplr, a company that provides a social network...
[September 28, 2009, 15:56]
Nokia's Booklet could be a new chapter in business IT
Leader Nokia has said it will be bundling its Ovi suite of services with the Booklet 3G, but these lack the corporate touch. Nokia's entry into netbooks reveals a company with a very sober assessment of the market.
[August 24, 2009, 17:16]
RIM names BlackBerry app store, gives pricing
News At the Mobile World Congress trade show in February, Nokia announced it would introduce the Ovi Store, and Microsoft said it was preparing the Windows Mobile Marketplace app store. Research In Motion has given a name to its on-phone application...
[March 5, 2009, 12:51]
Analyst: Nokia should buy Yahoo
Blog The mobile handset giant is intent on becoming a major web player in its own right and Ovi (the umbrella for its web applications and services), as we see it today, is only the start. The endless to-ing and fro-ing over a potential Microsoft buyout...
[November 20, 2008, 12:14]
Symbian to set up app developer programme
News App stores supporting the programme include Nokia's Ovi Store — Nokia owns the Symbian technology — the Samsung Application Store and AT&T's Media Mall. The Symbian Foundation plans to release an application publishing programme, called Horizon, to...
[July 16, 2009, 16:57]
Nokia boosts comms platform with Oz purchase
News The company just officially launched its Ovi platform, which serves as a hub for many of its services. Nokia is bulking up its communications platform with the acquisition of Oz Communications, a privately held, Montreal-based company that offers...
[October 1, 2008, 9:38]
Nokia World 09 brings new smartphones, netbooks
News This application uses the Ovi Maps service to let the user publish their location alongside their status updates. On Wednesday, the Nokia World 09 show began in Stuttgart. The annual two-day conference is the Finnish handset maker's chance to show...
[September 2, 2009, 16:59]
Nokia Qt Developer Days: from the show floor
Blog To get a little extra colour and analysis of Qt from the outside, I spoke with Nick Jones, VP & distinguished analyst at Gartner, “Qt looks easier for developers to work with than native Symbian APIs and so provides some extra leverage (as my US...
[October 14, 2009, 12:48]
Sony Ericsson pins hopes on 'entertainment' strategy
News Nokia, the world's largest mobile-phone maker, has been developing an entire service platform called Ovi for more than a year that allows users to share files from the PC to the phone and vice versa. On Sunday evening in Barcelona on the eve of...
[February 16, 2009, 10:47]
Nokia E52 review
Reviews The E52 also has a GPS receiver, and Ovi Maps — the new name for Nokia Maps — is preinstalled. Nokia's online Ovi service is also supported on the E52. It's actually smaller and lighter than many 'feature phones' that pepper the mid-range of the...
[September 16, 2009, 9:03]
