10th Mar 2008 07:02
Synchronica PLC10 March 2008 10th March Synchronica Wins Additional Award Synchronization pioneer wins European Seal of E-Excellence for mobile email Hannover/ Tunbridge Wells - 10th March 2007 - Synchronica plc, the internationalprovider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, has once again won theSilver European Seal of E-Excellence Award. The jury, consisting of seniorexecutives from European multimedia associations, honoured Synchronica for itssuccessful communication strategy to make mobile email attractive to the massmarket. The award was made at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. The European Multimedia Award Seal of E-Excellence given by the EuropeanMultimedia Forum (EMF), rewards e-business companies that have an excellenttrack record in applications, technologies and services as well as usinginnovative marketing. This year the jury honoured Synchronica's Mobile Gateway and Mobile Backup thatare based on the dominant open industry standards Push IMAP (LEMONADE) andSyncML/OMA DS. By developing products that support these open standards,Synchronica enables mobile email, contact and calendar synchronization and backup and restore services on the widest range of mobile devices in use worldwide.This allows the company to make mobile email services more accessible andattractive to the mass market. "Using our products, all mobile phone users can receive push email and backupand restore their contacts, not just those with expensive devices ", says NicoleMeissner, Synchronica's CMO. "We are particularly keen to enable mobile emailfor consumers in emerging markets such as India, Africa and the Middle East,where limited copper infrastructure means that many people have to travel toInternet cafes to send and receive emails. In these countries, mass marketmobile email is the way forward. " -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 MeissnerChief Marketing OfficerTel.: +44 1892 552 780Mobile D: +49 173 6069 160Fax: +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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