Today’s the day that Nokia closes its online stores in theUKandUS, which means that you will no longer be able to buy directly from Nokia online in these countries. Nokia’s online store in France, Spain and the Netherlands werecloseddown at the end of May, as part of the company’s ‘restructuring’. It was announced back in mid-June that the UK store would be closing, as would its other online stores around the world....
Nokia, in an effort toestablishits market position in China, joins forces with SINA and Tencent, two of China’s leading Internet service providers, to bring location based services through Ovi Maps in China Both SINA and Tencent services will be seamlessly integrated with Nokia’s Ovi Maps in China, enabling millions of people to enjoy and share location services to friends and communities using Ovi Maps. Using SINA’s micro-blog and Tencent’s online community, the members will be able to share their location, check-in places, and upload content and recommendations using their Nokia mobile devices....
Nokia has confirmed that its initial launch of Windows Phone devices will definitely run Microsoft’s new Mango update. Nokia’s wording on itsConversations blogreads as follows: Today Microsoft has announced the key new ingredients of the latest ‘Mango’ release of the Windows Phone operating system. This is the software that will be used on the first Nokia with Windows Phone devices, and so should be of keen interest to Nokia-watchers everywhere. Read on for all the details....
Nokia’s Chief Technical Officer Rich Green is reported to have resigned from his position at the Finnish mobile giant, taking leave “for personal reasons”,HS.fi reports. The Nokia Group Executive Board member’s leave has been confirmed by Nokia, saying it was due to medical reasons, but the company has refrained from detailing the length of his absence or the reasons behind it. With Nokia quiet on Green’s decision, two independent sources have said that Green’s leave will last at least until the end of the year, with it highly likely that he will not return to Nokia thereafter....
Nokia is bringingChrome To Phonefunctionality to Symbian and S60 devices with its new appNokia Drop, allowing users to ditch their Bluetooth dongles and USB cables to send links and photos to their device directly from their desktop browser. Built using Qt, Nokia Drop is programmed to utilise the Nokia Notification solution, ensuring devices only use battery power when a user requests a file to be sent to a device. To send files and share links, a user needs to install two apps – one for the browser and one for the phone....
