12th Feb 2008 07:01
Synchronica PLC12 February 2008 Synchronica Announces Mobile Gateway 3.5 with New Features for Consumer and Business Market Additional back-end, provisioning and billing support reduces time to market for business and consumer mobile email and synchronization services Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 12 February 2008 - Synchronica plc, aninternational vendor of mobile email and synchronization software, has announcedMobile Gateway 3.5 with new back-end support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SunJava Communications Suite 5. Mobile Gateway 3.5 also introduces support for Java Content Repository (JCR)standard, allowing it to be integrated easily with 3rd party PersonalInformation Management (PIM) systems significantly reducing the developmenttime. The new product incorporates a billing API to facilitate both prepaidbilling, predominantly used in the consumer sector and post-paid billing,favoured by corporate accounts. Mobile Gateway 3.5 further features a new mobileregistration interface that allows consumers to sign up easily and quickly fromtheir phone using WAP activating the service directly from the device withoutrequiring access to a PC. In the business sector, Frost & Sullivan predicts that mobile email will becomea 'must-have' application, with revenues estimated to grow from €1.86 billion in2007 to €6.65 billion in 2012. By adding support for Microsoft Exchange 2007,and Sun Communications Suite 5, Mobile Gateway 3.5 enables operators to providea carrier-grade mobile email and PIM synchronization service to the majority ofusers working in businesses, without forcing them to use a specific device. Thismakes the use of a single device for both business and private email a reality,removing the headache of carrying multiple devices for executives on the move. "The enormous popularity of the Apple iPhone has demonstrated that consumer andbusiness use of mobile phones is blurring and operators are starting to look athow best to serve both markets on a single device", says Carsten BrinkschulteCEO, Synchronica. At the same time that mobile email becomes a 'must-have' application in thebusiness sector, Visiongain predicts that consumer mobile email accounts willincrease to 184 million users by 2011. Because it supports popular consumeremail services, such as Google Mail, AOL, Yahoo or any POP3 or IMAP mailbox,Mobile Gateway 3.5 is equally attractive to operators introducing consumermobile email services. Using the open standards Push IMAP and SyncML, Mobile Gateway 3.5 integrateswith the native email and synchronization clients built-in to more than 1.5billion devices from all major handset manufacturers like Sony Ericsson, Palm,Nokia, Samsung, Motorola. This is ideal for both business users, who need securemobile access to corporate email and calendar information as well as users inthe prosumer and consumer markets as it supports both Smartphoens andmass-market Feature Phones without requiring an additional client to beinstalled on the device. As a key advantage, unmatched by other products, Mobile Gateway does not requireany additional software installation on the users' PC or firewall modificationin the corporate network. Instead, Mobile Gateway is operated in the data centreof the service provider and connects to the user's mail server through a secureconnection. The combination of this "zero footprint" architecture with anadditional over the air provisioning module eases service activation andimproves adoption rates. "By extending our backend support to include Microsoft Exchange 2007 and SunCommunications Suite 5 and continuing to support open standards and popularconsumer email services, Synchronica can provide a single solution that candeliver carrier-grade mobile push email and PIM synchronization to both consumerand business users on a wide range of devices," says Carsten Brinkschulte CEO,Synchronica. "We are delighted to announce these important enhancements to our flagshipMobile Gateway product. This is another important step in our mission to bringcarrier-grade push email, PIM synchronization and backup and restore services toevery phone on the planet, whether it is in the hands of a European executive onhis P990, a US prosumer on his Apple iPhone or a consumer in Bangladeshaccessing emails on his Nokia 1101." added Brinkschulte. -ends- 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 Meissner, CMOSynchronica plcTel.: +44 1892 552 780Mobile: +44 7977 256 412 Fax: +44 1892 552 721 [email protected] This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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