REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - June 9, 2009) - Funambol, the leading provider of mobile
open source cloud sync and push email, today released a mobile cloud sync
index study evaluating solutions from 12 top device makers, portals,
carriers and specialists in the mobile industry, including Apple MobileMe,
AT&T Mobile Backup, BlackBerry IS, Funambol, Google Sync, Microsoft My
Phone, Nokia Ovi Sync, Palm Synergy, T-Mobile Mobile Backup, Verizon
Wireless Backup Assistant, Vodafone Zyb and Yahoo! Mobile. The study, which
was performed by a team of Funambol researchers, compares the syncing of
mobile data and content, such as contacts, calendars, email, photos and
files, against 10 different categories, including cost, usability and
performance, global readiness, wireless desktop integration and social
network sync.
"Mobile cloud sync is a major new category of mobile services for mobile
operators, portals and device makers," said Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of
Funambol. "Consumers expect to seamlessly sync their content from their
mobile phones to the cloud to the desktop. When we compared the industry's
top solutions side by side, we were able to see how they actually stack
up."
Mobile cloud sync consists of syncing data and content on a mobile phone
with a server and portal in the Internet cloud. Data and content can also
be synced with email systems, desktop apps, social networks and more. While
a variety of companies offer basic mobile cloud sync services, the ease of
use, cost and variety of features differs widely from service to service.
The mobile cloud sync evaluation showed that solutions from mobile
operators are often more limited than sync solutions from device
manufacturers and portals. It also found that major areas of opportunity
include wireless desktop integration, social network sync and solution
openness.
Additional findings of the mobile cloud sync index include:
-- 75% of solutions are free
-- 17% of solutions support one or two devices; 42% support a single
family or small number of devices
-- 41% of solutions only sync a single type of data (e.g. contacts,
email, photos)
-- 75% of solutions do not support wireless desktop integration
-- 33% of solutions sync data with multiple social networks, such as
Facebook, MySpace and LinkedIn; 16% sync with one social network and 50% do
not sync with social networks
-- 58% of solutions support four or more languages
Funambol's mobile cloud sync index white paper, "Evaluating Mobile Cloud
Sync Solutions: From Apple MobileMe to Vodafone Zyb," is available for
download with free, instant registration, at
http://www.funambol.com/solutions/requestpublication.php.
About Funambol
Funambol is the leading provider of mobile open source cloud sync and push
email. Funambol open source software has been downloaded over three million
times by 50,000 developers and project participants in more than 200
countries. The commercial version of Funambol has been deployed at mobile
operators, portals, device manufacturers, service providers and ISVs
including customers such as AOL, 1&1, EarthLink and CA, Inc. Funambol is
headquartered in Redwood City, California with an R&D center in Italy. For
more information, please visit
www.funambol.com. You can follow Funambol on
Twitter at
http://twitter.com/funambol.
Contact Information: Media Contact:
Jenna Boller
Page One PR
415-321-2344