AT&T Acquires Plusmo
AT&T announced it’s buying privately held Plusmo for an undisclosed sum to help it build widgets and apps for mobile phones, PCs, and TV. The Plusmo platform enables developers to create widgets using common web development standards, and deploy them across multiple mobile operating systems and devices. Plusmo supports J2ME, Blackberry, S60 WRT, iPhone, Android and WinMo.
The acquisition of Plusmo should help AT&T develop new applications more quickly and more cheaply. It could also allow for over the air updates for mobile devices. AT&T is also planning to use the technology to develop applications for its broadband customers and TV subscribers.
