Disqus
Nokia’s Ovi Store should be rolling out any day now, and as such they have been wrapping up projects like Mosh and WidSets, and now Ovi Share is getting the plug pulled. While Share won’t be shut down, Nokia will be stopping their investments in the media sharing service, while presumably working out how to bring it all into the Ovi Store fold. Having used Ovi Share for our Mobile World Congress coverage, I was pretty happy with it, but investors are right; Nokia shouldn’t be trying to replace popular services like Flickr and Facebook, but rather integrating with them like most other platforms are these days.
[via Reuters]
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Simon Sage’s education largely surrounded writing, technology and online community, leading him to begin his blogging career at www.BlackBerryCool.com and to quickly discover a vibrant and active community surrounding BlackBerry and mobile technology. In exploring RIM’s platform, he has learned what enterprises are looking for in mobility as well as what makes the innocuous BlackBerry so appealing to them. Recently Simon’s been covering RIM’s gradual move into an already-crowded consumer market, and the impact of burgeoning challengers, such as the iPhone, as well as long-time leaders, like Nokia, on BlackBerry’s advancement. With plenty of content under his belt, Simon will be branching off a bit to see what other smartphone manufacturers are working on while still using BlackBerry as a barometer. At IntoMobile, you can count on his posts being even-handed, well-informed and thought-out.
