Nokia acquires bit-side GmbH — Links of Interest — All About Symbian Forum Archive

Rafe 27 Jan 2009, 15:19

Nokia today announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire bit-side GmbH. Bit-side is a small (39 employees) software and service development company that is privately owned. Nokia say the acquisition will help speed up its mobile development for Nokia Maps. Bit-side is known for its imaging (Panoman) and entertainment applications (Marble Revolution). It also been the development house behind a number of well received mobile applications including Plazes for the iPhone and Pixelpipe for Android.

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chlettn 27 Jan 2009, 15:29

Also interesting: fast JPEG en-/decoding & scaling, face & object detection, "Realtime image flow analysis" - reminds me of Scalados offerings.

Rafe 27 Jan 2009, 15:41

Indeed, good spot chlettn. The press release says its for Nokia Maps, but there's definitely some juicy imaging stuff in there too.

I also rather liked @creativelife response on Twitter - 'Does this mean that Nokia now have 'a bit on the side'?