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owala tumbler company will brand services such as maps simply Nokia Nokia will abandon its Ovi mobile services brand as it prepares to sell smartphones based on Microsoftrsquo Windows Phone software, it said in a blog posting on Monday.Starting with services on some new Nokia phones in July and August, Ovi services will be rebranded as Nokia services in a transition that the company expects will continue into next year, according to a blog post. For example, Ovi Maps will become Nokia Maps. It is only a name-changing exercise and the services will continue as before. Itrsquo likely that anybody buying a new Nokia smartphone or mobile phone later this year will see the new branding on services included on them. Users that already own a Nokia phone will see the new branding through future software updates, Nokia said. The Ovi services brand was born in 2007, and has seen it fair share of problems. Nokiarsquo answer to Applersquo App Store, the Ovi store couldnrsquo;t cope with demand on opening day. However, insufficient dem
polene canada and seems to have put an end to another Ovi service in some countries: In January the company said it would stop offering Ovi Music Unlimited in 27 of the 33 countries where it operated.The abandonment of Ovi is an admission that the stand-alone brand has failed, and will now act as a way to reduce consumer confusion as the partnership with Microsoft grows, CCS In
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Harris Interactive Inc. has filed suit in U.S. D
stanley quencher istrict Court in Rochester, N.Y., against more than a dozen Internet companies and an antispam orga
polene bag nization for improperly identifying the market-research firm as a spammer and blocking its e-mail to users. The suit also takes aim at a rival firm, Incon Research Inc. in Norwalk, Conn. Harris alleges in the suit that Incon filed a complaint against Harris with Mail Abuse Prevention System LLC MAPS in Redwood City, Calif.MAPS is a members-supported organization that maintains a list of spammers called the Realtime Blackhole List. That list is distributed to Internet and e-mail service providers such as America Online Inc., Microsoft Corp.rsquo Hotmail, Juno Online Services and BellSouth Corp., which, along with several other services, have blocked Harris Interactive e-mail from reaching their users, Harris charges.Martin P. Roth, principal at Incon, was unavailable for comment . Dan Hucko, a spokesman for Harris Interactive, said that when Harris Interactive called MAPS and the Internet service providers to complain, MAPS told the market researcher that Roth had filed the complaint. MAPS spokeswoman Kelly Thompson said that without seeing the lawsuit, she couldnrsquo;t comment or confirm that Incon filed the original complaint. Hucko said one intention of the lawsuit is to get federal legislators to clearly define the difference between p
polene fr roper e-mail and spam.In the case of Harris Interactive, he said, all recipients have fi
