11th Jul 2007 07:00
Synchronica plc, an international provider of mobilesynchronization and device management solutions, today announced thatMobile Gateway 3.0 supports over-the-air synchronization betweenMicrosoft Exchange and the newly launched Apple iPhone. This willallow mobile operators and service providers to offer mobilesynchronization to business users and prosumers, enabling them toreceive corporate e-mail on their iPhones without having to ask theirIT manager to open the firewall or install additional software. £ Mobile Gateway seamlessly integrates with the corporate ITinfrastructure and does not require the enterprise to expose IMAP andSMTP in their Exchange servers or install additional connectors -issues that often raise security concerns with IT administrators.Instead, Mobile Gateway uses Microsoft's secure Outlook Web Access(OWA) to retrieve e-mail from the corporate Exchange server, a serviceenabled by many enterprises to provide users with access to corporatee-mail from home or while traveling. £ Unlike other solutions Mobile Gateway 3.0 delivers e-mailsdirectly to the built-in e-mail client of the Apple iPhone. Users willbe able to benefit from the outstanding user experience of thebuilt-in e-mail client of the iPhone and its tight integration withthe phone's address book. £ The iPhone is the latest device to be supported by Synchronica'sMobile Gateway 3.0 middleware, which enables synchronization with awide range of Smartphones and mass-market feature phones from Nokia,Sony Ericsson, and other leading manufacturers. Synchronica believesthat the iPhone will add momentum to the prosumer and consumer mobilee-mail phenomenon, which industry analyst visiongain predicts willgrow exponentially to reach 36 million consumer mobile email accountsby 2008, with this figure predicted to rise to 184 million by 2012. £ Commenting on the decision to support Microsoft Exchangesynchronization with the Apple iPhone, Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO ofSynchronica said, "The iPhone is a very attractive Smartphone,appealing to both the consumer and prosumer market. However, ITManagers are not going to permit their executives to synchronize adevice that requires them to punch holes in the corporate firewall.Mobile Gateway already supports synchronization with MicrosoftExchange, but does not require firewall modification or any softwareto be installed in the corporate network, so this won't be an issue.From a carrier's perspective, we are significantly expanding the reachof the iPhone into the business user and prosumer segments." £ Synchronica was one of the first synchronization software vendorsto combine both SyncML (OMA DS), which is optimized forsynchronization of calendar and contacts, and Push-IMAP (LEMONADE),which is optimized for mobile e-mail. Millions of mobile phonessupport e-mail over IMAP, but IMAP does not support calendar orcontact synchronization. Thus, combining Push IMAP for mobile e-mailwith SyncML (OMA DS) for synchronization of calendar and contactsallows Synchronica to support the widest range of devices and the mostpopular content types. £ Synchronica's Mobile Gateway provides carrier-grade Push e-mailand synchronization services for both consumers and business users.Serving consumers, it includes back-end support for POP3 and IMAP,connecting to popular mail services such as AOL or Yahoo. For businessusers, it provides a unique "zero footprint" architecture where userssimply register their devices with Mobile Gateway and instantly startto receive Push e-mail on their devices--no connectors behind thefirewall are required. It includes built-in support for MicrosoftExchange, Lotus Notes, and Sun JES, thereby reaching the majority ofbusiness user mail systems. £ About Synchronica plc £ 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). The company has deployed the world's first live installationof a device management solution in a carrier-grade environment.Products include the mobile device management product set MobileManager Suite and the Push e-mail and synchronization solution, MobileGateway. Headquartered in the UK with a development center in Berlin,Synchronica plc is a public company listed on the London StockExchange (SYNC.LN) More information is available atwww.synchronica.com Copyright Business Wire 2007Related Shares:
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