7th Mar 2008 07:01
Synchronica PLC07 March 2008 Synchronica receives Innovation Award 2008 Synchronica push email and synchronization solution wins award for mobile products that deliver greatest business benefit Berlin, London - 7th March 2008: Synchronica plc, the international provider ofmobile email and synchronization solutions, has been honoured with an InnovationAward for its outstanding products. The Innovation Award "InitiativeMittelstand" is extremely competitive and Synchronica's products were selectedfrom 1600 entrants. The award was presented on March 6th at the CeBIT fair. Since 2004 "Initiative Mittelstand" has given an Innovation Award for the ICTsector. An independent jury of experts and technical industry editors awards theprize to companies offering innovative products, services and solutions thatoffer superior benefits for medium-sized businesses. The initiative is known forproviding trusted advice to businesses on their choice of IT andtelecommunication solutions and informing them about the potential of newtechnologies. The Innovation Award is endowed with a total of Euro 150,000 andthis year's awards show is under the patronage of Professor Andreas Pinkwart,Germany's Minister of Innovation. Using established industry standards such as SyncML and Push IMAP and the newemail to SMS functionality, Synchronica Mobile Gateway allows push email anddata synchronization for virtually every phone in use today. Synchronica'sMobile Backup solution includes support for OMA DS (SyncML) for backing up andrestoring contact, calendar, and other data to the majority of mobile phones.Synchronica also supports POP3 and IMAP mailboxes and enables mobile email usingpopular consumer services like AOL or Google Mail. The company offers uniquezero-footprint architecture for business customers, whereby users simplyregister their devices and start to receive corporate email on their phoneimmediately, without requiring additional connectors behind the firewall.Supported business mailboxes include Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and SunJava Communications Suite. "We are very pleased that we have once again been selected to win the InitiativeMittelstand Innovation Award. Medium-sized businesses are the backbone of theGerman economy and therefore stand to derive a great deal of benefit from ourproducts. Because of our concentration on open industry standards, allcompanies, no matter their size, can now send and receive emails via theirmobile phones and synchronize and secure mobile data, easily and costeffectively", commented Nicole Meissner, Chief Marketing Officer of Synchronicaplc. About Mobile Gateway Synchronica's Mobile Gateway provides carrier-grade push email andsynchronization services for virtually all mass market feature phones andsmartphones being used by subscribers today. Based on the dominant open industrystandards Push IMAP (LEMONADE) for mobile email and SyncML (OMA DS) for contactand calendar synchronization, it works with the built-in Email andsynchronization clients found in more than 1.5 billion phones. The new Email toSMS functionality expands its reach to virtually every phone in use today.Serving consumers and prosumers, Mobile Gateway includes back-end support forPOP3 and IMAP mailboxes, connecting to popular services such as AOL or GoogleMail. For business users, it provides a unique zero footprint architecture whereusers simply register their devices and instantly start to receive corporateemail on their phone without requiring additional connectors behind thefirewall. Business mailboxes supported include Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Dominoand Sun Communications Suite. About Synchronica Synchronica plc develops and markets industry standard mobile email andsynchronization solutions for the vast majority of devices in the market today.Mobile operators, device manufacturers and service providers in emerging anddeveloped markets use Synchronica products to offer mobile email, PIMsynchronization and backup & restore services to their consumer and corporatecustomer base. Products include the push email and synchronization solutionMobile Gateway and the mass-market device backup solution Mobile Backup.Headquartered in the UK with a development centre in Germany and a presence inHong Kong, Dubai and U.S. Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIMlist of the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.LN). More information is available atwww.synchronica.com. For more information, please contact: Nicole MeissnerChief Marketing OfficerTel.: +44 1892 552 780Mobile U.K.: +44 7977 256 412Fax: +44 1892 552 [email protected] This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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