Seal of Excellence Award

Synchronica PLC 10 March 2008 10th March Synchronica Wins Additional Award Synchronization pioneer wins European Seal of E-Excellence for mobile email Hannover/ Tunbridge Wells - 10th March 2007 - Synchronica plc, the international provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, has once again won the Silver European Seal of E-Excellence Award. The jury, consisting of senior executives from European multimedia associations, honoured Synchronica for its successful communication strategy to make mobile email attractive to the mass market. The award was made at CeBIT in Hanover, Germany. The European Multimedia Award Seal of E-Excellence given by the European Multimedia Forum (EMF), rewards e-business companies that have an excellent track record in applications, technologies and services as well as using innovative marketing. This year the jury honoured Synchronica's Mobile Gateway and Mobile Backup that are based on the dominant open industry standards Push IMAP (LEMONADE) and SyncML/OMA DS. By developing products that support these open standards, Synchronica enables mobile email, contact and calendar synchronization and back up and restore services on the widest range of mobile devices in use worldwide. This allows the company to make mobile email services more accessible and attractive to the mass market. "Using our products, all mobile phone users can receive push email and backup and restore their contacts, not just those with expensive devices ", says Nicole Meissner, Synchronica's CMO. "We are particularly keen to enable mobile email for consumers in emerging markets such as India, Africa and the Middle East, where limited copper infrastructure means that many people have to travel to Internet cafes to send and receive emails. In these countries, mass market mobile email is the way forward. " -ends- 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 D: +49 173 6069 160 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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