14 DAY TRIAL // Today, Canadian mobile phone maker Research In Motion has made another purchase that should change the manner in which its users interact with their BlackBerry devices, as it acquired Cellmania, a Mountain View, California-based company.
The new acquisition is most probably aimed at bringing new enhancements to the BlackBerry App World, which has just enjoyed a version bump, and which should get enhanced with new features.
“Cellmania is excited to announce that our company is now part of Research In Motion (RIM),” a post on Cellmania's website reads.
Unfortunately, no other info on the deal was unveiled. Even so, there are little chances that the acquisition would be targeted at anything else than the application portal RIM put in place for its users.
“Our team has joined RIM's global organization and will continue to bring our expertise in Application Store front development to the BlackBerry platform,” Cellmania notes.
The company should bring its expertise to RIM's application storefront, enabling it to benefit from a wider distribution around the world.
“Cellmania drives mobile ecosystems for mobile operators, infrastructure providers and content owners,” the company says about itself.
“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,” it continues.
According to a recent article on BlackBerry Cool, the deal might indeed result in the Blackberry App World being available in more markets via more wireless carriers.
“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,” the company notes. It also announced that it should continue to serve its current client base.
For the time being, RIM did not release a formal announcement on the new deal, but the results of this acquisition might not take too long to appear.