Last week I represented cellity at the mobile 2.0 Europe event in Barcelona. The event took place at the ESADE business school and hosted people from all major mobile companies. On the main day the sessions were separated into Openness, Context (Location Based Services), Beyond free (how to earn money) and play (music). Beside those panels there were a couple of start up pitches.

The topic ‘connect’ was also very popular, there is a big need from users to find good solutions to manage their social networks and contacts from one central access point - as cellity is already offering very successfully. Overall a very good event about ‘the future of mobile’ as the subtitle was already suggesting.

Joerg (cellity) and Ilja (GetJar)

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Yesterday we announced that Skyfire (San Francisco) and cellity are working on a partnership together. We are happy that Skyfireusers can now access our cellity addressbook 2.0 directly within the Skyfire Browser for mobile phones (this mobile Browser enables for instance Flashcontent).

This cooperation makes very much sense since the Browser is the starting point for the Internet and the address book for any communication.

Sarik, Nitin, Joerg and Raj at the Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona

Read more about the partnership here.

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The cellity Communicator is now available for the popular Apple iPhone and Google’s G1. The software can be downloaded for free at iTunes App store and Android Market.

The intelligent contact data manager continuously and simultaneously provides up-to-date personal contact data from different sources i.e. cell phone address book, Outlook, Twitter and social networks such as Facebook.

With the integration of the famous smartphones from Apple and Google we have extended our service and will customize it to the newest mobile phones.

Read more about the cellity Communicator on iPhone and G1.

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Thanks to a new cooperation with QYPE, cellity customers will be able to use the leading recommendation forum QYPE with its user generated reviews directly on the cellity Communicator. QYPE contacts from companies, locations and service providers - like restaurants, cinemas or hairdresser’s shops - can be put in the cellity Addressbook 2.0. The contacts will be automatically provided with the QYPE link so that the user can access the latest ratings at the QYPE forum.

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cellity has closed a new cooperation with blau Mobilfunk. Both companies are going to give their customers more opportunities to join the mobile world of address management and communication. The addressbook 2.0 stores and updates contact data from many different sources (like Outlook, Twitter, social networks and email accounts) in just one place. The cooperation of the two companies allows blau Mobilfunk and cellity customers to be able to use the addressbook 2.0 features in combination with reasonable low blau.de tariffs. Read more about the cooperation between blau.de and cellity here and here.

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This week, the co-operation between cellity and beta2go (E-Plus group) has been announced. I would like to take this opportunity to explain the main advantages of this co-operation for E-Plus customers.
E-Plus, BASE or simyo users can access cellity directly through beta2go in order to enjoy the first real web 2.0 address book. All of the user’s contacts will be organized in the one place, being accessible from both your mobile phone or computer.
The special advantage of beta2go is that users do not have to pay for the data connection whilst using one of the offered services: “Customers of one of the E-Plus group brands (E-Plus, BASE, simyo, AY YILDIZ, vybemobile) will not be charged for any data connections while they are using beta2go.de or one of the services.” This means that users don’t have to pay anything while they are using cellity. This service by E-Plus allows their customers to explore new services and applications, like cellity, for free.

Joerg Land
Product – cellity AG

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cellity is continually adapting its successful address book 2.0 to new cell phone models as they come on the market. As expected, a whole range of new cell phones have been brought out over the last few months. Our team always keeps up-to-date and so we are happy to announce many new cell phones for which the new cellity Communicator with address book 2.0 is now available as downloadable software. These are: Nokia 2700 Classic, 6208 Classic, E63, 5130 XpressMusic, N79, N85, 3610 Fold, 7310 Supernova, 7610 Supernova and 7210 Supernova. Latest version of the cellity Communicator with address book 2.0 is also available for Sony Ericsson G705, W705, W902, W302, W595, T700, C510, K758, S302, TM506, W715 and W508, and for the following LG devices: KE970, KF750, KT520, KT525, HB620, HB620T, KB620.

Fotos: http://www.nokia.com

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Today, Google announced their new service called Google Sync. This service looks pretty similar to MyPhonebook from  T- Mobile,  except that Google is mainly focused on their own services whereas  T-Mobile, for instance, is offering an Outlook plug-in.

Even if this might be a nice service for Google users,  it is still not even close to a web 2.0 address book or in short  ‘addressbook 2.0′.  But there is another even more critical problem with Google. I do not have many contacts (except those uncountable automatically added email addresses I do not know whom they belong to) stored in Gmail and only the most important ones in my mobile phonebook. Most of my contacts are out there in social networks.

This is exactly where cellity has major advantages over Google. cellity has already evolved this idea to the next stage by merging traditional contacts and web 2.0 profiles in just one single service.

Read more here: the origin of any communication

Joerg Land
Product - cellity AG

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cellity now with favorite QYPE locations 

- Discover 2.9 million localities in the leading evaluation forum Qype and administrate them directly via cellity Addressbook 2.0

- Cooperation enables access to latest user reviews at Qype directly from cellity

Hamburg, 03/19/2009 - With immediate effect cellity customers (www.cellity.com) will be able to use the leading recommendation forum Qype (www.qype.com) with its user generated reviews directly via cellity Communicator. All Qype contacts from companies, locations and service providers – like restaurants, cinemas or hairdresser’s shops – can be deposited in the cellity Addressbook 2.0, where they can be accessed, edited and administrated at every opportunity.

Those contacts will be automatically provided with the Qype link so that the user will be able to access the newest ratings at the Qype forum.

Associated with that cellity integrates the industry and address service of Telegate Media AG next to the yellow pages for all aspects of live and allows its customers to gain access to 2.9 million addresses and more than one million evaluations listed at Qype.

From social networks like Facebook and Twitter, webmail providers like Web.de, GoogleMail and Outlook up to the new mobile addressbook, cellity already synchronises by far more than 2 million contacts of its customers.

„With this service we would like to expand the functions of the cellity addressbook and give our customers a broader spectrum of constantly available addresses.“sais Sarik Weber, CMO and Founder of cellity AG. „With the involvement of the successful evaluation portal Qype we took another step forward to the integration of the most popular social networks.“

Stephen Taylor, CEO of Qype, states: “The utilization of mobile internet is rising. Therefore we attached importance to extending our service in this field. Due to the cooperation with cellity the Qype addresses can be administrated by mobile phone and acquire a higher practical value.“

about cellity

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. Addressbook 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 (Addressbook 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 Addressbook 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.

about Qype

Qype.com is the leading recommendation forum in Germany, Britain and France centered around social networking and local reviews. It is also a leading online city magazine. Registered users can review companies, locations and services like pubs, gas stations, day-care facilities, restaurants, landmarks, doctors, pet shops, sports clubs and day mothers. As a classified directory for all spheres of live Qype contains countless reviews – from users for users. Founded in 2005, Qype has more than 8 million users. Every 40 seconds another review is being written. The name Qype is a composition of “Quality” and “Hype”.

Mediacontact:

Christina Seddig | Tel: +49.30.2576205.28 | E-Mail: de-presse@cellity.com

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cellity extending service of newest smartphones

· cellity extends functions of newest smartphones before launch

· free private contact management and syncronization with the cellity Addressbook 2.0

Hamburg, 03/26/2009 – With the integration of the newest smartphones from Nokia cellity is taking another step forward to the integration of multimedia mobile phones. Already before the launch in the second quarter of 2009 the leading provider of mobile communication applications optimized its free cellity Communicator for Nokia models 5630 XpressMusic, 6720 Classic, 6710 Navigator, E55 and E75. By this means smartphone owners will be able to access the functions of the cellity Communicator and deal with all their contacts from different sources like social networks, Outlook and webmail accounts in the integrated Addressbook 2.0 on the Web and mobile. The customer will also be able to use the convenient cellity address search, which by now falls back on more than 33 million Telegate- and Qype contacts.

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cellity Communicator enhances Google’s new Android-powered G1 phone
- Free software turns Google’s smartphone into a mobile communications center

- With the new Address book 2.0 function, G1 owners can manage all their contacts and communication channels in a single mobile application

Hamburg, 10/16/2008 – Google’s G1 Android Phone, for which 1.5 million pre-orders have apparently been made, will go on sale in the US for the first time on October 22. As was the case with the iPhone, mobile Web-based applications are a key feature with the search-engine giant’s first smartphone on the Android platform.

Before sales start for the Android-powered G1, as one of the leading suppliers of mobile communications applications, cellity (www.cellity.com) optimized its cellity Communicator for the Google cellphone and by doing so expanded features available for smartphone mobile communication. In addition to significantly less expensive voicemail, text messaging, and email functions, the address book can be automatically updated and backed up using the cellity Communicator.

cellity will unveil yet another key innovation in the area of contact data management when Google cellphone G1 hits the UK market.

“Because the sources of new contacts is constantly changing, managing contact data is becoming an ever greater challenge not only for smartphone users who use cellphone applications very extensively, but also for other cellphone owners,” explains Benjamin Körber, VP Operations at cellity AG. “With the new addressbook 2.0 G1 owners can automatically synchronize all contact details from Outlook, their cellphone, social networks and many other sources, and in this way have access to constantly updated information about their communications partners at any time, no matter where they are.”

cellity’s award winning cellphone software has already been downloaded more than 5.5 million times.

The cellity Communicator at a glance

• Combined mobile email, freeSMS, SMS, groupCALL, worldCALL, remoteCALL, Twitter and the new addressbook 2.0 (available November 2008) in a fast and graphically appealing solution

• freeSMS: Send and receive text messages free anywhere in the world.

• groupCALL: Easily make conference calls at competitive rates on your cell phone

• worldCALL: Make international calls at low prices from anywhere in the world

• Tweeter: cellity’s twitter software for your cellphone

• Multi-platform enabled: runs on WAP, on the Web, the iPhone and as a mobile application on all Java-capable cellphones and the Android G1 smartphone.

Overview of the new cellity addressbook 2.0 application (available November 2008)

• Automatic synchronization and updating of contact data from a cellphone, Outlook, social networks, and Twitter platforms .

• Automatic sorting of frequent contacts: The most important contacts are always easily accessible

• Backup copy: contact data can be recovered at any time by using this option

• Sending a message using various communication channels

• All important communications channels (SMS, freeSMS, email, phone conferencing, Twitter) can be used directly from addressbook 2.0

• An intelligent search utility

• Users are independent of any particular service provider or network (free transfer of all data is always possible)

Based in Hamburg, Germany, cellity AG (http://www.cellity.com/) was founded in October 2006 and offers innovative mobile telephony services based on its own software technology. cellity software applications include successful features for mobile email, freeSMS, SMS, groupCALL, worldCALL, remoteCALL, Twitter, and address book backup. In November 2008 the addressbook 2.0 feature will be integrated within the cellity Communicator, allowing users to continuously update all their contacts and communicate directly with them using the most common channels.

Press contact: Miriam Rupp | Phone: +49.30.2576205.13 | Email: de-presse@cellity.com

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Last week I represented cellity at the mobile 2.0 Europe event in Barcelona. The event took place at the ESADE business school and hosted people from all major mobile companies. On the main day the sessions were separated into Openness, Context (Location Based Services), Beyond free (how to earn money) and play (music). Beside those panels there were a couple of start up pitches.

The topic ‘connect’ was also very popular, there is a big need from users to find good solutions to manage their social networks and contacts from one central access point - as cellity is already offering very successfully. Overall a very good event about ‘the future of mobile’ as the subtitle was already suggesting.

Joerg (cellity) and Ilja (GetJar)

source: http://www.flickr.com/photos/random0

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Sarik dropped by CeBit in Hanover to present the cellity addressbook 2.0. Unified messaging was one of the main topics and is becoming more and more important. He was interviewed by Susanne Müller-Zantop who asked him the official CeBit 2009 question: How is the internet changing the way we work, live and communicate and in what way is cellity a member of Webciety? Get the answer here:

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After his keynote about Twitter for Business at the MBC 09 conference at the University of Hamburg, Sarik was interviewed by Steve Paine of www.midmoves.com. They were talking about the G1, Blackberry and the iPhone, what mobile devices must have to become top sellers and also the address book 2.0. For the complete interview please click here.

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As Sarik announced during the last Facebook Developer Garage in Berlin cellity will organize another Developer Garage in Spring 2009. If you are interested in speaking or sponsoring opportunities please contact me (David.Malecki@cellitygroup.com). We will announce the exact date and location early next year.

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