22nd Oct 2007 07:01
Synchronica PLC22 October 2007 Synchronica Products Win Mobile Gold Star Awards for Mobile Operator Products Synchronization and MDM software vendor sweeps the board with awards in six categories of Mobile Village Awards 2007 Tunbridge Wells, UK, 22 October, 2007 - Synchronica, a leading vendor of mobilesynchronization and mobile device management software, today announced that ithas won a Gold Mobile Star AwardTM for both of its products from MobileVillage(R), the 14-year leader in mobile market development and mobile technology newsservices. The annual Mobile Star AwardsTM aim to honour and promote the best companies,mobile and wireless products and deployments and technology leaders. Winners arechosen by technology executives, mobile professionals, IT managers, developers,and top technology journalists. 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 technology than everbefore, there is a natural desire for people to evaluate the abundance of mobilesolutions that are available to them." says MobileVillage Editor Gary Thayer."This year almost 2,000 MobileVillage readers cast their votes for the bestmobile and wireless solutions on the market. Our readers have a great knowledgeand experience of using mobile products and we congratulate the winners ongaining the votes of real end users." Carsten Brinkschulte, Synchronica CEO, said: "We believe that by supporting openmobile standards, we can open up mobile email and PIM synchronization to themajority of mobile phone owners and deliver enormous benefit to both enterpriseand consumer markets, yielding additional mobile data revenues for operators andservice providers." "On the device management side, we believe that OTA back-up and restore servicesmay be the first mobile data application beyond SMS which will be successful inthe mass-market. We also predict enormous growth in consumer mobile email asopen standards enable such services on a wider range of devices. We aredelighted that both Synchronica's products have been awarded a Gold Star byMobile Village, as this endorses our strategy of supporting standards that bringthese high end services to low cost phones." For more information, please contact: Nicole Meissner, CMOSynchronica plcTel.: +44 1892 552 780Mobile: +44 7977 256 [email protected] About Synchronica Mobile Manager Synchronica's Mobile Manager Backup & Restore module is based entirely on thedominant industry standard SyncML/OMA DS supported by the majority of featurephones and Smartphones from all leading vendors. Unlike other solutions, it doesnot require a client to be installed on the device, but instead uses thebuilt-in SyncML client of the device. Since it does not require an additionalclient, it works 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 the enterpriseenvironment for OTA management, update and security of business phones, with avital remote lock and wipe facility to remove corporate data from phones thatare lost, stolen or decommissioned. About Synchronica Mobile Gateway Synchronica Mobile Gateway provides carrier-grade scalability and supports openindustry standards including SyncML (OMA DS) for optimized synchronization ofcalendar, contacts and notes to more than 1.5 billion SyncML compatible mobilephones and Smartphones on the market. For optimized mobile push email, Synchronica Mobile Gateway 3.0 also supportsOMA EMN and IMAP IDLE protocols, enabling operators and service providers todeliver email to the widest range of mobile phones on the market, for massmarket and business use. Mobile Gateway provides back end support for POP3 andIMAP and connects to consumer mail services including AOL and Google Mail. Forbusiness users, it includes in-built support for Microsoft Exchange, LotusDomino and Sun Java Enterprise System, thus synchronizing with the majority ofbusiness email systems. The beauty of Mobile Gateway is that it does not requireany software to be installed on the phone, or connectors to be installed behindthe corporate firewall. This unique "zero footprint" architecture makes MobileGateway extremely attractive to operators and service providers catering to theneeds of the business sector. This year's Mobile Star Awards winners are posted online at http://www.mobilevillage.com/awards.htm. About Synchronica Synchronica plc develops and markets synchronization and device managementsolutions for mobile operators, device manufacturers, and enterprises. Itsproduct portfolio ranges from data synchronization (DS) to device management(DM) and firmware update over the air (FOTA). Products include the mobile devicemanagement suite Mobile Manager and the Push Email and synchronization solutionMobile Gateway. Headquartered in the UK with a development center in Berlin, andoffices in Hong Kong and Dubai Synchronica plc is a public company listed on theLondon Stock Exchange (SYNC.LN). More information is available atwww.synchronica.com About MobileVillage(R) Founded in 1993, MobileVillage is a market and solution development companydedicated to advancing mobile and wireless enterprise computing in a wide rangeof industries. MobileVillage accomplishes this by fostering education andalliances through "Best of Breed" solution identification, event partnerships,an online industry directory, industry job postings, daily online news, itswidely respected Go Mobile(R) newsletter, a Mobile MentorsTM program, andpopular annual Mobile Star AwardsTM program. Visit MobileVillage online atwww.mobilevillage.com. 2007 Synchronica. All rights reserved. Mobile Gateway is a trademarks or registered trademarks of Synchronica. MobileVillage(R) and the Mobile Star AwardsTM are trademarks or registered trademarks of MobileVillage / PDA Inc. ### This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock ExchangeRelated Shares:
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