| [MWC 2010] Nokia Launches Nokia Money Pilot in Pune with YES Bank Posted: 16 Feb 2010 06:10 PM PST Nokia has once again made it clear that, India's mobile users market is of utmost importance for its performance. At the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2010, Nokia introduced a new service called Nokia Money. Kicking off in Pune, India, Nokia Money will work hand-in-hand with one of India's well known private sector banks, YES Bank. YES Bank has named these services as Mobile Money Services and the Pilot is soon going to start in Pune. With Nokia Money, users will just need the person's mobile number to whom they wanna transfer money. People can also pay utility bills, SIM top ups etc. Its just a pilot as of now, but the possibilities are end less like shopping, movie ticketing etc. This partnership is also a good opportunity for YES bank to increase its share of wallet. Also this is the initial partnership of Nokia with respect to its Mobile Money project. Going ahead, they are very much keen to build an open eco-system of mobile operators, banks and goods/services retailers. [ Via] Nokia Money will be using Obopay's platform for this service. [ Image Credit] 
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| [MWC 2010] Nokia Going Strong in Services Posted: 15 Feb 2010 06:51 PM PST Yesterday, at the ongoing Mobile World Congress 2010, Nokia and Intel almost took every one by surprise when they announced the merging of their Linux based platforms into one single platform, MeeGo. Its been a big day for Nokia as a company and also for Symbian platform as the fully open source Symbian^3 was also shown yesterday at the MWC 2010. Recently Nokia has gained back its market share and with the launch of new products and services they are doing the right things to keep up with their competitors like Apple and Android based phones. Apart from its products, Nokia is also known for offering a lot of mobile based services like App store, Ovi mail etc and over the last year they have made a lot of changes to their services to keep up with the competition, which has increased dramatically in 2008-09. Though not the best, but it seems that Nokia's services are doing really well. This was evident when Nokia shared some numbers that define the performance of their services. - Ovi Maps - 3 million+ downloads till date
- Ovi Store - More than 1 million downloads; App Store localized for 18 countries with support for 30 languages
- Nokia Messaging - Nokia Messaging Push email service has been signed by 70 operators worldwide. Million people/month open Ovi Mail account
- Nokia Money - Commercial pilot has kicked off in Pune, India
- Nokia Life Tools - Currently available only in India and Indonesia since 2009 but there are already a million subscribers
- Nokia Music - Comes With Music is available in 27 markets with an average user downloading 500 songs in the first week. Ovi Music is available in 33 markets with a catalog of NINE million tracks
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