22nd Oct 2007 07:00
Synchronica, a leading vendor of mobile synchronization and mobiledevice management software, today announced that it has won a GoldMobile Star Award(TM) for both of its products from MobileVillage(R),the 14-year leader in mobile market development and mobile technologynews services. £ The annual Mobile Star Awards(TM) aim to honour and promote thebest companies, mobile and wireless products and deployments andtechnology leaders. Winners are chosen by technology executives,mobile professionals, IT managers, developers, and top technologyjournalists. £ Synchronica has been recognized in six categories: £ -- Both of Synchronica's products, Mobile Gateway and Mobile Manager, were awarded Gold Stars for over the air synchronization and device management in the mobile operator software category. £ -- Synchronica Mobile Manager was awarded a Silver Star for Mobile Backup and Recovery in the Enterprise Software category. £ -- Two Bright Stars were awarded to Synchronica Mobile Gateway for Enterprise Mobile Communications and for Enterprise Mobile Middleware, highlighting the fact that Mobile Gateway provides push email, calendar, contact, tasks and notes synchronization without requiring any software to be installed behind the corporate firewall, or on the mobile device. The award for Enterprise Mobile Communications recognizes the fact that Synchronica Mobile Gateway supports the widest range of mobile devices in use today, untethering enterprises from expensive proprietary devices. £ -- On the device management side, Synchronica Mobile Manager was also awarded a Bright Star for Enterprise Mobile Device Management, in recognition of its ability to ease the central management, security and OTA updating of Smartphones in the corporate environment, allowing IT manages to ensure that corporate data held on employees' phones is protected. £ -- In recognition of his championing of open mobile industry standards (SyncML, IMAP IDLE and OMA EMN), which bring industry-leading synchronization and mobile device management services to the widest range of feature phones and Smartphones on the market, Synchronica CEO, Carsten Brinkschulte, was voted as a Visionary in the Enterprise Mobile Software category, gaining him a Bright Star award. £ "With more enterprise and consumer users of wireless technologythan ever before, there is a natural desire for people to evaluate theabundance of mobile solutions that are available to them." saysMobileVillage Editor Gary Thayer. "This year almost 2,000MobileVillage readers cast their votes for the best mobile andwireless solutions on the market. Our readers have a great knowledgeand experience of using mobile products and we congratulate thewinners on gaining the votes of real end users." £ Carsten Brinkschulte, Synchronica CEO, said: "We believe that bysupporting open mobile standards, we can open up mobile email and PIMsynchronization to the majority of mobile phone owners and deliverenormous benefit to both enterprise and consumer markets, yieldingadditional mobile data revenues for operators and service providers." £ "On the device management side, we believe that OTA back-up andrestore services may be the first mobile data application beyond SMSwhich will be successful in the mass-market. We also predict enormousgrowth in consumer mobile email as open standards enable such serviceson a wider range of devices. We are delighted that both Synchronica'sproducts have been awarded a Gold Star by Mobile Village, as thisendorses our strategy of supporting standards that bring these highend services to low cost phones." £ About Synchronica Mobile Manager £ Synchronica's Mobile Manager Backup & Restore module is basedentirely on the dominant industry standard SyncML/OMA DS supported bythe majority of feature phones and Smartphones from all leadingvendors. Unlike other solutions, it does not require a client to beinstalled on the device, but instead uses the built-in SyncML clientof the device. Since it does not require an additional client, itworks with mass-market feature phones - a clear requirement for asuccessful product introduction in the consumer market. £ Mobile Manager's Enterprise module can also be used in theenterprise environment for OTA management, update and security ofbusiness phones, with a vital remote lock and wipe facility to removecorporate data from phones that are lost, stolen or decommissioned. £ About Synchronica Mobile Gateway £ Synchronica Mobile Gateway provides carrier-grade scalability andsupports open industry standards including SyncML (OMA DS) foroptimized synchronization of calendar, contacts and notes to more than1.5 billion SyncML compatible mobile phones and Smartphones on themarket. £ For optimized mobile push email, Synchronica Mobile Gateway 3.0also supports OMA EMN and IMAP IDLE protocols, enabling operators andservice providers to deliver email to the widest range of mobilephones on the market, for mass market and business use. Mobile Gatewayprovides back end support for POP3 and IMAP and connects to consumermail services including AOL and Google Mail. For business users, itincludes in-built support for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and SunJava Enterprise System, thus synchronizing with the majority ofbusiness email systems. The beauty of Mobile Gateway is that it doesnot require any software to be installed on the phone, or connectorsto be installed behind the corporate firewall. This unique "zerofootprint" architecture makes Mobile Gateway extremely attractive tooperators and service providers catering to the needs of the businesssector. £ This year's Mobile Star Awards winners are posted online athttp://www.mobilevillage.com/awards.htm. £ About Synchronica £ Synchronica plc develops and markets synchronization and devicemanagement solutions for mobile operators, device manufacturers, andenterprises. Its product portfolio ranges from data synchronization(DS) to device management (DM) and firmware update over the air(FOTA). Products include the mobile device management suite MobileManager and the Push Email and synchronization solution MobileGateway. Headquartered in the UK with a development center in Berlin,and offices in Hong Kong and Dubai Synchronica plc is a public companylisted on the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.LN). More information isavailable at www.synchronica.com £ About MobileVillage(R) £ Founded in 1993, MobileVillage is a market and solutiondevelopment company dedicated to advancing mobile and wirelessenterprise computing in a wide range of industries. MobileVillageaccomplishes this by fostering education and alliances through "Bestof Breed" solution identification, event partnerships, an onlineindustry directory, industry job postings, daily online news, itswidely respected Go Mobile(R) newsletter, a Mobile Mentors(TM)program, and popular annual Mobile Star Awards(TM) program. VisitMobileVillage online at www.mobilevillage.com. (C)2007 Synchronica. All rights reserved. Mobile Gateway is a trademarks or registered trademarks of Synchronica. MobileVillage(R)and the Mobile Star Awards(TM) are trademarks or registered trademarks of MobileVillage / PDA Inc. Copyright Business Wire 2007Related Shares:
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