Nokia acquired certain assets of cellity. cellity is a privately
owned mobile software company which employs 14 people in Hamburg,
Germany. Nokia will
acquire the cellity team to strengthen its competencies in the area of
social networking. cellity’s current service will not transfer to Nokia
and the service will be discontinued. cellity currently offers a
solution to collect and securely store users’ contacts in one place.
The service is an easy way to connect people on the mobile and the web.cellity AG offers ervices for aggregating address book data
and connects all popular communication channels. Its innovative Address
book 2.0 tool enables all contact data to be imported from a wide
variety of sources (cellphone address books, Outlook, Twitter, social
networks) to one place. Users can access the complete feature set from
the cellity Communicator 2.0 interface, including conventional
telephony, short text messaging, sending emails from their cellphone,
free messaging, Twitter updates, communication with social networks and
phone conferencing. The cellity Communicator 2.0 can be used on any
cellphone or web browser and keeps data dependably secure and
synchronized.
“cellity
has a very talented and innovative team, which we are very happy to
have on board at Nokia. With this acquisition, we can accelerate our
service development in some of our core areas,” said Christof Hellmis,
Vice President, Services, Nokia.
“We
are excited that Nokia has chosen our team and technology. With our
experience from building social networking solutions, we can help Nokia
further develop their services offering,” said Nils Weitemeyer, CEO of
cellity.