Innovation Award 2008

Synchronica PLC 07 March 2008 Synchronica receives Innovation Award 2008 Synchronica push email and synchronization solution wins award for mobile products that deliver greatest business benefit Berlin, London - 7th March 2008: Synchronica plc, the international provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, has been honoured with an Innovation Award for its outstanding products. The Innovation Award "Initiative Mittelstand" is extremely competitive and Synchronica's products were selected from 1600 entrants. The award was presented on March 6th at the CeBIT fair. Since 2004 "Initiative Mittelstand" has given an Innovation Award for the ICT sector. An independent jury of experts and technical industry editors awards the prize to companies offering innovative products, services and solutions that offer superior benefits for medium-sized businesses. The initiative is known for providing trusted advice to businesses on their choice of IT and telecommunication solutions and informing them about the potential of new technologies. The Innovation Award is endowed with a total of Euro 150,000 and this year's awards show is under the patronage of Professor Andreas Pinkwart, Germany's Minister of Innovation. Using established industry standards such as SyncML and Push IMAP and the new email to SMS functionality, Synchronica Mobile Gateway allows push email and data synchronization for virtually every phone in use today. Synchronica's Mobile Backup solution includes support for OMA DS (SyncML) for backing up and restoring contact, calendar, and other data to the majority of mobile phones. Synchronica also supports POP3 and IMAP mailboxes and enables mobile email using popular consumer services like AOL or Google Mail. The company offers unique zero-footprint architecture for business customers, whereby users simply register their devices and start to receive corporate email on their phone immediately, without requiring additional connectors behind the firewall. Supported business mailboxes include Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Sun Java Communications Suite. "We are very pleased that we have once again been selected to win the Initiative Mittelstand Innovation Award. Medium-sized businesses are the backbone of the German economy and therefore stand to derive a great deal of benefit from our products. Because of our concentration on open industry standards, all companies, no matter their size, can now send and receive emails via their mobile phones and synchronize and secure mobile data, easily and cost effectively", commented Nicole Meissner, Chief Marketing Officer of Synchronica plc. About Mobile Gateway Synchronica's Mobile Gateway provides carrier-grade push email and synchronization services for virtually all mass market feature phones and smartphones being used by subscribers today. Based on the dominant open industry standards Push IMAP (LEMONADE) for mobile email and SyncML (OMA DS) for contact and calendar synchronization, it works with the built-in Email and synchronization clients found in more than 1.5 billion phones. The new Email to SMS functionality expands its reach to virtually every phone in use today. Serving consumers and prosumers, Mobile Gateway includes back-end support for POP3 and IMAP mailboxes, connecting to popular services such as AOL or Google Mail. For business users, it provides a unique zero footprint architecture where users simply register their devices and instantly start to receive corporate email on their phone without requiring additional connectors behind the firewall. Business mailboxes supported include Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino and Sun Communications Suite. About Synchronica Synchronica plc develops and markets industry standard mobile email and synchronization solutions for the vast majority of devices in the market today. Mobile operators, device manufacturers and service providers in emerging and developed markets use Synchronica products to offer mobile email, PIM synchronization and backup & restore services to their consumer and corporate customer base. Products include the push email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway and the mass-market device backup solution Mobile Backup. Headquartered in the UK with a development centre in Germany and a presence in Hong Kong, Dubai and U.S. Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIM list of the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.LN). More information is available at www.synchronica.com. For more information, please contact: Nicole Meissner Chief Marketing Officer Tel.: +44 1892 552 780 Mobile U.K.: +44 7977 256 412 Fax: +44 1892 552 721 nicole.meissner@synchronica.com This information is provided by RNS The company news service from the London Stock Exchange
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