Mobile Gateway 3.5 features
Synchronica PLC
12 February 2008
Synchronica Announces Mobile Gateway 3.5 with New Features for Consumer and
Business Market
Additional back-end, provisioning and billing support reduces time to market for
business and consumer mobile email and synchronization services
Mobile World Congress, Barcelona, 12 February 2008 - Synchronica plc, an
international vendor of mobile email and synchronization software, has announced
Mobile Gateway 3.5 with new back-end support for Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Sun
Java Communications Suite 5.
Mobile Gateway 3.5 also introduces support for Java Content Repository (JCR)
standard, allowing it to be integrated easily with 3rd party Personal
Information Management (PIM) systems significantly reducing the development
time. The new product incorporates a billing API to facilitate both prepaid
billing, predominantly used in the consumer sector and post-paid billing,
favoured by corporate accounts. Mobile Gateway 3.5 further features a new mobile
registration interface that allows consumers to sign up easily and quickly from
their phone using WAP activating the service directly from the device without
requiring access to a PC.
In the business sector, Frost & Sullivan predicts that mobile email will become
a 'must-have' application, with revenues estimated to grow from €1.86 billion in
2007 to €6.65 billion in 2012. By adding support for Microsoft Exchange 2007,
and Sun Communications Suite 5, Mobile Gateway 3.5 enables operators to provide
a carrier-grade mobile email and PIM synchronization service to the majority of
users working in businesses, without forcing them to use a specific device. This
makes the use of a single device for both business and private email a reality,
removing the headache of carrying multiple devices for executives on the move.
"The enormous popularity of the Apple iPhone has demonstrated that consumer and
business use of mobile phones is blurring and operators are starting to look at
how best to serve both markets on a single device", says Carsten Brinkschulte
CEO, Synchronica.
At the same time that mobile email becomes a 'must-have' application in the
business sector, Visiongain predicts that consumer mobile email accounts will
increase to 184 million users by 2011. Because it supports popular consumer
email services, such as Google Mail, AOL, Yahoo or any POP3 or IMAP mailbox,
Mobile Gateway 3.5 is equally attractive to operators introducing consumer
mobile email services.
Using the open standards Push IMAP and SyncML, Mobile Gateway 3.5 integrates
with the native email and synchronization clients built-in to more than 1.5
billion devices from all major handset manufacturers like Sony Ericsson, Palm,
Nokia, Samsung, Motorola. This is ideal for both business users, who need secure
mobile access to corporate email and calendar information as well as users in
the prosumer and consumer markets as it supports both Smartphoens and
mass-market Feature Phones without requiring an additional client to be
installed on the device.
As a key advantage, unmatched by other products, Mobile Gateway does not require
any additional software installation on the users' PC or firewall modification
in the corporate network. Instead, Mobile Gateway is operated in the data centre
of the service provider and connects to the user's mail server through a secure
connection. The combination of this "zero footprint" architecture with an
additional over the air provisioning module eases service activation and
improves adoption rates.
"By extending our backend support to include Microsoft Exchange 2007 and Sun
Communications Suite 5 and continuing to support open standards and popular
consumer email services, Synchronica can provide a single solution that can
deliver carrier-grade mobile push email and PIM synchronization to both consumer
and business users on a wide range of devices," says Carsten Brinkschulte CEO,
Synchronica.
"We are delighted to announce these important enhancements to our flagship
Mobile Gateway product. This is another important step in our mission to bring
carrier-grade push email, PIM synchronization and backup and restore services to
every phone on the planet, whether it is in the hands of a European executive on
his P990, a US prosumer on his Apple iPhone or a consumer in Bangladesh
accessing emails on his Nokia 1101." added Brinkschulte.
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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, CMO
Synchronica plc
Tel.: +44 1892 552 780
Mobile: +44 7977 256 412 Fax: +44 1892 552 721 nicole.meissner@synchronica.com
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