Nokia buys Plazes
It's not a secret that Denmark is far behind developments in the mobile market. We are calling and texting. And that's it. Ok, take a handful of photos and a slightly smaller proportion use it as a media player. But the Internet, instant messaging and mobile applications are virtually unknown to all but a few professionally interested persons on the Computer World, communication forum, or the like.
Nor am I even with edge. And while I, along with the big Internet players waiting for the situation when the real breakthrough for using mobile phone for anything other than traditional call so takes mobile companies themselves affair.
A few weeks ago it was announced that Vodafone had acquired ZYB. http://zyb.com/
Yesterday, Nokia announced that the acquisition of Plazes http://www.plazes.com/ . Plazes locates you and your friends on a map using your computer or by sending a (free) SMS to plazes. The idea is really good, but I never really started to use the service a little over a year ago when I had created a profile http://plazes.com/users/38993 .
Nokia has previously bought Twango (file sharing), Loudeye (music) and Enpocket (mobile Adserving) and is slowly but surely started to rearm for the next trends. With Plazes has added dimensions of time and place for your mobile and your relationships. Interesting!
I got the news from PaidContent.org
