Today LinkedIn announces the launch of LinkedIn Contacts.

 LinkedIn continue its mutation and its transformation, with the final goal, maintain its users in its platform. This means LinkedIn as the first thing to check when you wake up and the last thing to shutdown when you want to sleep.
Henceforth with this new product, LinkedIn brings all your contacts from your address books, email accounts, and calendars together with your LinkedIn network.
Therefore we have features like: Bring all your contacts to
one place, this means LinkedIn Contacts brings together all your address books, emails, and calendars, and keeps them up to date in one place.
Never miss an opportunity to say hello: this means get alerted on job changes and birthdays in your network, and so on.
And finally Take it on your mobile device: this means LinkedIn Contacts is available as a standalone app for iPhone.