25th Jun 2007 07:03
Synchronica PLC25 June 2007 Synchronica wins German eco Internet Oscar 2007 Mobile Gateway 3.0 awarded best Mobile Service product by industry experts. Royal Tunbridge Wells - 25 June 2007: Synchronica plc, an international providerof mobile synchronization and device management solutions, received the MobileService award at the eco Internet Awards 2007 in Cologne for Mobile Gateway 3.0 Synchronica was announced as the winner of the prestigious award for bestproduct in the Mobile Service category at the eco gala event last Thursday inCologne, Germany. Synchronica, an expert in push-email, beat off the fiercecompetition of more than 200 other applicants to convince a jury of press,analysts, IT and telecoms experts that the Mobile Gateway was the best mobileservice product. Synchronica joins a high profile list of previous winnersincluding Monster, the jobs portal, Xing and Siemens Business Services. Every year the association of the German Internet industry - eco - awards aprize to companies for an innovative and extraordinary product or service whichbrings a significant user benefit. The categories are ISP, ASP and MobileService. The award winning Mobile Gateway from Synchronica is an independent platform,based entirely on open industry standards. It allows push e-mail and datasynchronization with almost all mobile phones available on the market withoutthe need to install an additional client on the device. After a simple onlineregistration the synchronisation of contact and calendar data as well astransmission of e-mails is immediately available. Due to the full support of POP3 and IMAP, the consumer is able use popular e-mail services like MSN, AOL,Gmail or Yahoo. And businesses can employ the system to operate with mailservers like Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Sun JES. "The internet has become increasingly mobile. Does this mean the Internet willconquer the mobile world? We believe that the Synchronica's Mobile Gateway hasexactly that potential. We are sure that this will become an alternative topopular SMS text messages in Germany", said Dr. Bettina Horster, Head ofM-Commerce task force for the eco Association. " "We are delighted to have won the award for best Mobile Service in the ecoAwards 2007. This encourages us in our effort to enable mobile email for themass market," comments Nicole Meissner, Chief Marketing Officer of Synchronica"Push Email will shortly expand to the prosumer and consumer markets. Virtuallyevery mobile phone user has an email account and most of them now have anemail-enabled device. This is the most cost effective alternative to theBlackberry for the mass market." The eco Award is the fourth award Synchronica's Mobile Gateway has receivedwithin 6 months. The other awards received have been the Golden Marcom CreativeAward (AMCP), Seal of E-Excellence and most recently the Innovationspreis ITKfrom Initiative Mittelstand. Eco is the registered association of German Internet enterprises. Founded in1995, its aim is to enhance the commercial use of the Internet, therebystrengthening Germany's position both in the global internet economy and as abusiness location in general. As a body, eco sees itself as the advocate andmouthpiece of German Internet businesses in all relevant political, legislativeand international groupings. It currently represents 300 members, promotingtheir commercial development as well as providing advice and support tocompanies whose products and services are available via the Internet. About Synchronica plc Synchronica plc develops and markets synchronization and device managementsolutions for mobile operators, device manufacturers and enterprises. Itsproduct portfolio ranges from data synchronization (OMA DS / LEMONADE) to devicemanagement (OMA DM) and firmware update over the air (FOTA). The company hasdeployed the world's first live installation of a device management suite in acarrier-grade environment. Products include the mobile device management suiteMobile Manager and the push email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway.Headquartered in the UK with a development center in Berlin, Synchronica plc isa public company listed on the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.LN). More informationis available at www.synchronica.com For Media Inquiries: Nicole Meissner, CMO Synchronica plc Tel: +44 1892 552780 [email protected]: Corfin Communications Ben Hunt, Harry Chathli 020 7929 8989 This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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