Nokia continues its recent acquisition spree by announcing that it intends to acquire mobile email and IM application developer OZ Communications. OZ Communications has products for mobile IM, email and that allow users to access all of the major email and IM providers, and a social networking tool that receives alerts from MySpace, Facebook, Flickr and other social media sites.
This is just one piece of Nokia’s overall mobile strategy around acquisitions. The company also purchsed the most broadly used mobile phone operating system, Symbian, and made it open source. Other moves have been the recent acquisition of NAVTEQ, a mapping provider and the location-based social network Plazes.
It’s not clear whether Nokia has a strategy for integrating these tools on the Symbian platform, but it has been choosing these companies shrewdly with an eye on the future of the mobile platform as a way to interact online. We’ll just have to wait and see whether they free these applications as well and how they tie them all together for users.
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