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January 27, 2009

Espoo, Finland/Berlin, Germany - Nokia and bit-side GmbH today announced that an agreement has been signed for Nokia to acquire substantially all assets of bit-side. Bit-side is a privately owned Berlin-based professional services and software company with 39 employees. By acquiring bit-side Nokia will strengthen and accelerate its mobile development for Nokia Maps.

"Acquiring bit-side enables Nokia to offer consumers the world-leading mobile location applications, such as Maps, along with routing and navigation at an accelerated speed" said Michael Halbherr, vice president and head of social location, Nokia. "Nokia has been working with bit-side since 2007, and bit-side has become a strategic development partner to Nokia."

"Nokia believes that context plays a pivotal role in the evolution of the Internet. To make the Internet truly personal, Nokia is building the ability for people to always know where they are and what is around them. Moreover, to know where their friends are and what they are doing and how they are feeling. Nokia calls this social location," said Michael Halbherr, vice president and head of social location, Nokia.

"Joining Nokia, the world leader in mobility, is an exciting opportunity for us," says Thom Brenner, managing director & partner, bit-side GmbH. "Our small team has brought many innovative mobile products to life and being part of Nokia will be like a catalyst to this. We share Nokia's visions, on social and location related services and the future of their enabling technologies."

The transaction is subject to customary closing conditions and is expected to be completed in the first quarter of 2009. Bit-side will be integrated to Nokia's Services unit.
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http://www.nokia.com/A4136001?newsid=1285188

bit-side both worked on location-based social service apps working with Plazes (which Nokia aquired a few months ago), and also create PanoMan and lots of specialized imaging related things like faster JPG de-/encoding and scaling, face & general object recognition, etc etc...

Interesting.

http://www.bit-side.com/index.html
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face & general object recognition
reminds me with that service they showcased last year, it was called "shoot and find" or something; it means that you take a picture of an object with your mobile camera and search the internet about related webpages.
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All the imaging-related things they were doing sound a lot like the stuff Scalado demoed at the 2008 Smartphone Show, which was pretty interesting...

I wonder if these will get integrated into S60, or if the aquisition was really just about Nokia Maps-related stuff...
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btw, have they benefited from qt or anything from trolltech in their phones yet or was it merely and investment?
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They will, very soon, once Qt is ready for primetime on S60 and Maemo. Right now, the S60 version in only in a preview state for now.
http://www.qtsoftware.com/developer/...iew-qt-for-s60
Take a look at video - it shows how basically the same application runs on vastly different OS with a quick recompile of the source files, without changes. It shows very well why I think the Trolltech/QtSoftware investment was a rather brilliant move by Nokia since this makes coding for more than one platform much easier and bridges S60 and Maemo (and maybe even S40 at some point, but I doubt that)...
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mmmm, nice, thanks for the vid chlettn!
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nothing extraordinary here. its a predictable move, an natural evolutionary step. this company is working for Nokia since 2007. the question: why Nokia have to pay continuous many to the company for their work, when they can easily buy it, once end forever?
that QT move really interest me. IMHO is a powerful strategic one in theory. Hope that all finalize good in practice, because they really need that...
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