Nokia purchases cellity, a company so insignificant they don’t bother capitalizing the first letter in their name
By Stefan Constantinescu on Friday, July 24th, 2009 at 6:51 AM PST In Nokia
Nokia purchased cellity today, a company based out of Hamburg, Germany. No details were given about the financials involved, except that all 14 employees will soon become powerpoint zombies Nokia (NYSE: NOK) employees by Q3 of this year. What does cellity do? According to their website:
cellity AG founded in October 2006, has developed their own software technology which offers a connection between innovative address management and all important communication channels. Address book 2.0 enables contact data from different sources (such as cell phone address book, Outlook, Twitter, Social Networks) to be stored intelligently in one secure place. The cellity Communicator (address book 2.0 included) provides the user with a wide range of communication features: classic telephony, conference calls, SMS, mobile email-forwarding, Twitter updates and communication in social networks. The cellity Communicator with address book 2.0, brilliant in so many ways, can be used with every web browser or cell phone. The data is always secure and synchronized. The free cellphone applications have already been downloaded over 8 million times in over 160 countries and work with any mobile and SIM card.
Which leads me to believe Nokia’s attempt at building a social network on top of their current “Contacts on Ovi” solution must be so bad, that mergers and acquisitions has to buy up these little guys. cellity, and I emphasize the lower case c, has a YouTube video about their main product and it’s … well just watch it yourself:
How are the people sitting at home, either fired of laid off from Nokia, reacting to this?
Note: cellity’s products will no longer continue to be supported as of September 30th, 2009 according to the company’s blog.
Here is their 2 minute pitch. Try not to fall asleep:
Come on, Stefan, cheer up! With every finnish comes a new beginning!
Keep rocking,
Sarik
Ha ha, these are the same guys who keep calling the iPhone a “fashion phone” on Twitter. Oh Nokia…. when will you learn!
I’m sorry to say this but author of this article must me total moron.
This is not an news article, this is a troll or rant.
Steefaan.. ur starting to smell… (”powerpoint zombies” made my day though, haha)
br,
PP-zomb
Haha, even if this was a troll from Stefan, he has a point. Nokia better put some resources in their current OVI stuff and why in the world cant they come up with a plain simple, working chat client?
That OVI contacts chat stuff, only supports their ovi.com subscribers (okay, you can hack it to use msn/gmail) but what use is it to have 50% of your contacts being offline but you cannot hide them and the application gets so slow that you see all buddy icons flicker.
For blackberry there are some awesome chat client and even their builtin clients beat the Nokia league with ease. Nimbuzz gets most close, but no notifications when it runs in the background is soo 1989.
Keep it up Constantinescu!
While I do agree with your points, I just can’t miss this opportunity to let you know of another company “so insignificant they don’t bother capitalizing the first letter in their name”: adidas.
As for the thing itself, I’m a bit baffled that what Nokia acquired is the team. Of tens of thousands of their own employees, Nokia could not find a few guys with ideas as good as or better than these people?
More like they didn’t even bother to look. Or try. You know, post an internal memo, “we wanna build this or this – any ideas?”. That’s disturbing, but I guess it might be true of more than one corporation, where internal bureaucracy is so bad, that it’s easier to buy other companies’ staff than use their own talent.
Perhaps Nokia knows more about the skills of this team than we do?