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New Funambol v8 Open Source MobileWe for Billions of Phones Raises Bar for Push Email and Mobile Sync
AJAX Portal Makes It Easy to Sync Contacts, Calendars, Tasks, Notes, Email, Pictures & More Between Billions of Mobiles, the Internet Cloud & Desktops
| Source: Funambol
REDWOOD CITY, CA--(Marketwire - February 10, 2009) - Funambol, the leading provider of open
source push email and mobile sync worldwide, today announced Funambol v8
MobileWe, the next generation of the company's flagship software for
syncing billions of mobile phones. Funambol v8 features a new AJAX web
portal that makes it easy to sync PIM data, email and multimedia content
between billions of mobile phones, the Internet cloud and desktops.
Funambol MobileWe enables device manufacturers, mobile operators, portals,
service providers and ISVS to rapidly offer a next-gen push email and
mobile sync solution. The company is providing an exclusive preview of
Funambol v8 at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 16-19, in
its booth #1J46 (Hall 1).
In addition to the AJAX portal, Funambol v8 has many additional new
capabilities, including enhanced smartphone clients for Windows Mobile,
BlackBerry, Symbian and Android, PIM sync for hundreds of additional SyncML
phone models and continuous Google and Yahoo! Import. The software now
allows users to easily sync pictures between their mobiles and the web, and
other features to easily integrate the software into customer
infrastructure and to brand it with their look-and-feel.
"People now expect to access their contacts, calendars, email, pictures and
more, regardless if they are on their mobile, the web or their PC," said
Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol CEO. "Open source is the only way to keep
pace with fast-evolving mobile devices and services today. Thanks to our
mobile open source community, Funambol is the only solution that makes
syncing possible with billions of mobiles around the world."
Funambol MobileWe supports two billion phones, including smartphones such
as Apple iPhone, BlackBerry Storm and Google Android G1. It syncs and
shares contacts, calendars, email, pictures, and more, via the Internet
cloud, and supports popular desktop apps, such as Outlook, and webmail,
including Gmail, AOL Mail, Yahoo! Mail and Hotmail. The software will be
exclusively previewed in Funambol's booth #1J46 (Hall 1) at the Mobile
World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, on February 16-19, 2009.
About Funambol
Funambol is the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync
worldwide. Funambol open source software has been downloaded three million
times by 50,000 developers and project participants in 200 countries. The
commercial version of Funambol has been deployed at service providers,
mobile operators, portals, device manufacturers 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 also learn more
about Funambol by following it on Twitter at http://twitter.com/funambol.