After nearly a week of build-up, Nokia finally announced their big Ovi announcement…..free premium content in Ovi Maps…on a select number of handsets. There are currently over 83 million GPS-enabled Nokia devices in the market, apparently, and thanks to Navteq, they have voice-guided turn-by-turn directions for 74 different countries around the world. Says Anssi Vanjoki, [...]
Our friend Vaibhav Sharma of TheSymbianBlog recently attended a Q&A session with the Ovi Maps folks, where he learned all sorts of cool things about Ovi Maps and where they’d like to take the service in the near future. He also got a tip about an upcoming service, dubbed ‘Ovi Journeys’. Reportedly, Ovi Journeys is [...]
Nokia just announced that it has purchased Plum. If you don’t know who Plum is (neither did I), it’s a social grouping service that plugs into your website to bring social features. On the Plum homepage, there are two testimonials, one comparing the service to Facebook, but saying that Plum is more intimate and personal, [...]
