Cellity to beef up your contacts with Addressbook2.0

Cellity to beef up your contacts with Addressbook2.0

Mobile application developer Cellity aims to take your contacts to a whole new level on Dec. 16, when it publicly launches its Addressbook 2.0 for any phone that supports Java — not just smartphones. The application draws data from your email, social networks, standard contacts and even Twitter to give you a one-touch dashboard for all your connections, the company says.

After you import your friends from Facebook, MySpace and even Xing or LinkedIn, Addressbook 2.0… Continue Reading

Instant messaging: feature or product?

Instant messaging: feature or product?

Web-based instant messaging services, such as Meebo and eBuddy have had high growth rates over many months. They’ve raked in a lot of funding from hungry VCs. But we see IM becoming a commodity.

So far, these non-aligned startups have offered an advantage. They’ve let everyone communicate with everyone. They’ve aggregated the various IM clients in a single web site, so that someone with GTalk can IM with someone from Yahoo Messenger.

Some, such as EQO, combine… Continue Reading