The buying and mobile app mania continues with RIM buying mobile software and storefront platform maker, Cellmania, in the hopes to add more apps to the BlackBerry App World mobile storefront.
Cellmania confirmed the deal on their website, “Our team has joined RIM’s global organization and will continue to bring our expertise in application storefront development to the BlackBerry platform.”
Cellmania claims, Cellmania provides the world’s largest repository of mobile content consisting of over 200,000 items across 200+ handsets from 100+ countries in 55+ languages.
RIM recently revamped BlackBerry App World with new features including lower pricing, Blackberry ID, credit card payment, tabbed lists, and QR barcoding. BlackBerry App World users will receive upgrade notifications over the next few hours.
Cellmania’s integrated
mFinder solution provides infrastructure on either a licensed or hosted
basis to allow digital rights management of downloaded content onto
mobile phones, subscription billing, time and location based content
management and billing integration onto customer bills.
Cellmania’s mFinder solution is used as a full end-to-end delivery and ecosystem
solution for some of the world’s largest mobile operators. Cellmania
also provides the world’s largest repository of mobile content
consisting of over 200,000 items across 200+ handsets from 100+
countries in 55+ languages. Content owners can provide their wares to
Cellmania to distribute across Cellmania mobile operator and other
distribution channels with a win-win business model. Cellmania provides
content in many different media types including ringtones, java content,
browseable content and video files.
Founded in 1999, Cellmania is based in Mountain View, California.