Nokia reshuffles management looking for gold

We’re not alone in grumbling about Nokia. Investors are miffed — to put it gently — over Nokia’s inability to ignite the industry (and profits) with innovative, high-margin handset sales since the launch of Apple’s iPhone some three years ago

Ovi Music Unlimited replacing Nokia Comes with Music branding

We can’t say that we’ll miss the awkwardly named Comes with Music service branding from Nokia.

Garmin and TomTom cling to profits, hope

As everyone knows, Garmin and TomTom have their backs against the ropes in a fight to remain relevant in an age of free GPS turn-by-turn navigation on smartphones (thanks Google and Nokia ). While dedicated personal navigators are almost always superior to their converged competition, the gap has certainly narrowed such that it’s become difficult to justify another device when an increasing number of people already carry a fine navigation device in their pockets. But that’s just gut instinct talking, where’s the hard evidence?

Nokia mounts huge Ovi Maps signpost on a crane in London (video)

We’re generally reluctant to cover purely promotional stunts like these , but when you decide to jack up a house-sized arrow on a crane and hang it next to London’s Thames river, well, exceptions can be made .

Nokia updates N97 with free Ovi Maps, just as promised

It was only a week ago when Nokia shook us with its free turn-by-turn navigation update, but the poor old N97 got left out in the cold. Not any more though, folks! In fact, the new Ovi Maps for N97 — along with “improved touch screen scrolling” and “improved memory and battery performance” — was delivered one day earlier than promised. Thanks, Nokia, but don’t forget your N900 fans, too.

Nokia Ovi Maps with free turn-by-turn navigation hands-on

Now that we’ve heard the big news from Nokia’s London press event, it’s only natural to get our hands dirty with the upgraded Ovi Maps. The preloaded map does indeed load much quicker than its old network counterpart, and hey, did we mention it’s free too? Enjoy the photos and video after the break with your breakfast

Nokia Ovi press event this Thursday, ‘big news’ promised

If you’re a Nokia lover who is currently jealous of all the Apple fans and their current state of delicious expectation , we’re happy to say that now you too can savor a little anticipation. Nokia is sending out invitations to an event this Thursday, January 21, indicating it will “share some big news with you.” Well, not with you exactly, but rather with us media-types, and you can be sure we will then pass it along posthaste. But what will Nokia be sharing?

Nokia’s Maemo Ovi Store looking rickety, ‘beta’ label well-deserved

Bugs are to be expected in brand-new apps and platforms — particularly when they’re clearly marked with a “beta” sign — but it starts to get a little hairier when there’s money involved.

Nokia’s Ovi Store now available on AT&T, still not competitive

As revealed by Ralph de la Vega at AT&T’s CES Developer Summit this morning ( liveblog here ) and singled out by CNET, Nokia’s flailing and heretofore not-available-on-AT&T Ovi Store is finally available on Ma Bell, complete with direct billing.

Nokia’s Ovi Software Development Kit released to invited and excited Javascripters

Nokia’s Ovi Store launched in late May — and then promptly crashed . The company has long-since gotten everything working smoothly and so is now so confident about its stability that it’s letting other developers in on the party.

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