Nokia has announced, via a post on its blog, that it will drop the Ovi name for its range of Internet delivered content and services rebranding them as simply Nokia services.

Nokia has launched its E7 Symbian smartphone in Australia, billing it as being "designed with professionals in mind."

Nokia has canned its free music download service, Ovi Music Unlimited, in 27 countries.

In case you’d missed it, Apple doesn’t own the market when it comes to mobile app development. Nokia’s Calling All Innovators contest challenged developers to to create apps that enhance the use of Nokia mobile devices in real-world scenarios. Australian developer Dale Rankine had made the global top 10 for an app developed with the Ovi App Wizard.

Nokia Devices and Services has revised its guidance downwards, for the second time this year, in the face of intensifying competition at the high end of the market.

Faced with ever increasing competition from the likes of Apple, and the Google backed Android platform, Nokia and Yahoo! have formed a global alliance that will see Nokia become the exclusive, global provider of Yahoo!'s maps and navigation services and Yahoo! the exclusive, global provider of Nokia's Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat services

Nokia has re-organised its mobile phone business in a bid to better exploit the rapid growth of smartphones and the challenges from new vendors and technologies in the smartphones market.

The free Ovi Voice application from Nokia lets you customise the directions given by Ovi Maps.

Don't believe what you may have seen elsewhere: Gartner's figures don't say Apple owns 99+% of the mobile applications market.

Nokia today released the Nokia N97 software update 2.0 that adds new functionalities and applications to the device. Read on to find out what’s on offer in the free download.