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Nokia has announced that it will be an anchor investor in a new independent investment fund, Vision+, which will fund apps and games “for Nokia supported platforms, especially for the Windows Phone platform”. The Vision+ fund will be headed up by Tero Ojanperä, a former Nokia CTO and known as the architect of Ovi. He’s set make the move on September 30.

While the announcement says Vision+ will also invest in other industries including clean water and energy projects in the future, it sounds like its biggest aim to start with is to lure developers over to Windows Phone. App makers will keep the rights to their intellectual property but share sales revenue with Vision+.

Hit the headline and tell us in the comments: do you think Nokia and Vision+ will get developers to dash to Windows Phone?

Out now | £NA | Nokia

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Nokia Big Screen has graduated from the Beta Labs and is now a proper Ovi Store app for turning your mobile into a media centre.

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If you got chucked out of X Factor auditions before getting a glimpse of Cowell’s leathery face, then Ovi has updated its X Factor app so you can indulge your wildest dreams digitally. The Ovi X Factoriser does a nifty digital gimmick where it puts your faces in the mags, on the billboards, and in the winning spot, so that for a short time, (and if you squint a bit so it looks genuine), you can imagine that you’re the one destined for a popular Christmas hit before sinking quickly into obscurity, Steve Brookstein style. Watch the video here.

Out now | Free | Ovi

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Nokia Comes With Music is off to the great gig in the sky. Like Hendrix, Lennon and the drummer from Spinal Tap, however, true music legends never really die – they just get rebranded.

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Nokia and Yahoo! have announced that they’re teaming up. Nokia’s Ovi Maps service will power Yahoo! maps and navigation while Ovi Mail and Ovi Chat will use Yahoo! tech to power up their instant messaging and email skills. Read on to find out what the Yahoo!/Nokia love in means to you…

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Nokia Ovi Maps was pretty exciting when it dropped the price tag last month, but now the Finnish phone firm has injected some more fun into its maps app with Nokia Ovi Maps Racing. Ready to go speeding around real world maps? Ovi Maps is about to let you do just that.

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NokiaNokia‘s just dropped an invite through the door to an Ovi announcement going down on Thursday in London town. What’s Espoo got to shout about, eh?

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Nokia-to-do-400The doors slamming shut on its flagship Regent Street store have rounded off a tough year for Nokia. The Finnish phone maker has seen its flagship N97 gazumped by a raft of Android-packing stunners, not to mention Comes With Music falling well short of expectations in the face of Spotify’s continued success. So what issues does Nokia face with 2010 round the corner? And how can it solve them and stay top dog?

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