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Ovi lifecasting We are now bringing location to a social application

Summary: Ovi lifecasting We are now bringing location to a social application like Facebook I believe that s one thing that will take off Jukka Hosio director for Services Marketing Location told journalists who attended the company s OneConnectedWorld event in Malaysia yesterday Another example is the interactive bus guide in Singapore This is a Web Runtime widget that utilizes GPS to help users find the nearest bus stops and service numbers and to notify them when the next bus is coming Nokia has also recently acquired Plum Ventures and will be acquiring cellity before this quarter closes Both companies will become part of Nokia s Services unit Plum Ventures provides cloud based social media sharing and messaging service for private groups while cellity offers services that aggregate address books from multiple sources onto one interface Moving forward Jukka said things get interesting when we start using real time user feedback and know what users are doing live That I think is the next step we are moving onto Collecting information from devices directly while taking into account privacy issues Rise of application stores The rise of application stores has ballooned the number of programs which are now easily accessible by users directly from their handsets Nearly every major phone manufacturer and operating system from Apple to Nokia and from Android to Microsoft has one to call its own According to Nokia its Ovi Store is available in over 180 countries in five languages The company plans to introduce local content and language support for Brazil China and France in the next quarter with over 20 localized stores to be expected in Q1 next year Since the Ovi Store was launched on May 26 it was faced with a salvo of including the lack of content and a cumbersome installation process All About Symbian has a Ovi lifecasting We are now bringing location to a social application like Facebook I believe that s one thing that will take off Jukka Hosio director for Services Marketing Location told journalists who attended the company s OneConnectedWorld event in Malaysia yesterday Another example is the interactive bus guide in Singapore This is a Web Runtime widget that utilizes GPS to help users find the nearest bus stops and service numbers and to notify them when the next bus is coming Nokia has also recently acquired Plum Ventures and will be acquiring cellity before this quarter closes Both companies will become part of Nokia s Services unit Plum Ventures provides cloud based social media sharing and messaging service for private groups while cellity offers services that aggregate address books from multiple sources onto one interface Moving forward Jukka said things get interesting when we start using real time user feedback and know what users are doing live That I think is the next step we are moving onto Collecting information from devices directly while taking into account privacy issues Rise of application stores The rise of application stores has ballooned the number of programs which are now easily accessible by users directly from their handsets Nearly every major phone manufacturer and operating system from Apple to Nokia and from Android to Microsoft has one to call its own According to Nokia its Ovi Store is available in over 180 countries in five languages The company plans to introduce local content and language support for Brazil China and France in the next quarter with over 20 localized stores to be expected in Q1 next year Since the Ovi Store was launched on May 26 it was faced with a salvo of including the lack of content and a cumbersome installation process All About Symbian has a

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