REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it will preview its new ad-based open source mobile email solution at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, February 1114. The company will also demonstrate a new version of its award-winning mobile email and PIM sync software on the latest mobile devices and platforms, including Apple iPhone, Google Android, RIM Blackberry, and more. Funambol will be located at stand #1J46 in Hall 1.

Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced it won the highest ranked Expert Jury Award from the Mobile Monday Peer Awards 2008 given out in conjunction with 3GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb. 11-14. The awards were determined as part of an evaluation and selection process that was conducted during the first day of this week's conference.
Funambol was chosen by an expert jury representing a global cross-section of leading mobile operators, search engines, online portals and wireless startups. Funambol presented its ad-funded mobile email solution and discussed its recent market traction of being deployed commercially at customers with a combined subscriber count of over 300 million users.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Funambol Inc., the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced that FuseMail, LLC, an innovative provider of outsourced email, has selected its push email and PIM sync solution for deployment to 200,000 small and medium business (SMB) customers. FuseMail selected Funambol due to the benefits that an open source push email solution provides: broad device support, robust capabilities and superior value. FuseMail will provide its SMB users with the ability to access email on a wide variety of smart and feature phones, including BlackBerries and Windows Mobiles. FuseMail will also enable users to sync PIM data (e.g.

REDWOOD CITY, Calif. Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, and Amobee Media Systems, the world leader in advertising solutions for mobile operators, today announced a partnership to enable operators and service providers to generate significant revenue from mobile email for the mass market.
The ad-based mobile email solution will shift content subsidization from mobile users to advertisers. It reflects the growing influence of mobile users, which is an increasing trend in 2008. It will help operators and services providers realize a significant portion of the $5 billion to $11 billion that analysts predict will be spent annually on mobile advertising within five years.

Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today announced that the AGPLv3 has received formal approval by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Funambol led the process of the licenses approval by the OSI after adopting AGPLv3 in November. It was the first company to adopt the license, which closes the ASP loophole.

World Africa, Johannesburg - TM Forum Management Synchronica plc, the international provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, is offering Mobile Gateway, its mass market push email infrastructure software, in response to major mobile operators in Africa, wishing to provide affordable BlackBerry-like services. The software which has already been licensed to two major African operators uses industry standards for push email and synchronization and works with more than 1.5 billion phones in use around the world today. This makes it ideal for consumers, prosumers, as well as small businesses in Africa where basic handsets are the norm and where mobile email solves the inherent problems caused by low fixed-line and PC penetration.

The team at MobiForms are proud to announce the release of the MobiForms Advanced edition. The MobiForms Advanced edition includes the MobiForms Developer and the new MobiForms Sync Server.

) October 20, 2008 -- Intermedia, the leading provider of collaboration and productivity SaaS solutions, and Wrike, the leading provider of on-demand project management software for small and midsize companies, today jointly announce the immediate availability of ContactSync, a free wireless contacts synchronization tool for the new T-mobile G1 smartphone. Available to all Microsoft Exchange users--including those not currently Intermedia or Wrike customers--this application enables users to wirelessly sync their Exchange/Outlook contacts to their G1 smartphone address book.

) February 20, 2009 -- Synchronica, the leading developer of mobile email and synchronization solutions, today announces new functionality within Mobile Gateway 4.0 that pushes social networking and news updates to any mass market mobile phone.

A wide range of popular social networking sites, such as Twitter, Flickr, Picasa, LinkedIn and Plaxo are supported in addition to thousands of other leading news, financial, and sporting feeds.

Updates are automatically pushed to the user's mobile phone whenever new content is made available. The integration is based on Mobile Gateway's standard JCR-compliant plugin architecture which connects to any site that supports RSS feeds.

) February 16, 2009 -- O3SIS AG, a leading provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, today announced the launch of its new Device Client Suite. Based on OMA DS (SyncML), Java and IP-Push industry standards the brand new Clients enable users to synchronize all types of multimedia contents from and to mobile devices. The Clients also fully support Push Mail capabilities of today's primary Smartphone platforms in the market, such as iPhone, Blackberry, Android, Windows Mobile and Symbian Smartphones. O3SIS customers now can fully leverage existing infrastructure investments to empower a wide range of mobile phones, while unifying all the various Smartphone platforms and previously isolated applications.

) November 1, 2009 -- Pader-Sync offers commercial productivity solutions for mobile devices. The latest product is PaderSyncSSH, a mobile SSH client application which allows IT administrators to remotely monitor and maintain computer systems from anywhere in the world. The second major feature of this new software allows the user to copy files to and from the remote computer. Purchase until November 15th to get a 20% reduced price.

) June 11, 2009 -- Synchronica plc, the international provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, has launched an affordable, industry-standard push email and synchronization middleware enabling enterprises to connect entry-level devices to corporate networks. Synchronica Mobile Gateway Enterprise Edition is a self-care solution that works on a wide variety of mobile handsets, so employers do not need to invest in a fleet of expensive new smartphones in order to cascade mobile email down the organization.

) September 3, 2009 -- The Termination of Verizon’s SMTP relay Service has many people not only confused but up in arms. The reality is this has been an age old problem for business email users on a POP type mail server. What people really need is one email service provider that handles all the sending and receiving of their email regardless of which network they are connected to or what desktop or mobile device they want to use email on.

TARRYTOWN, NY Open-Xchange Inc., the only remaining independent open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, today announced it will release all server components, installation and administration tools under the General Public License (GPL). Now, the Open-Xchange e-mail and collaboration server is open to full community involvement, thereby enabling industry partners, and community members to extend the Java-based platform beyond traditional groupware functionality.

) June 17, 2009 - Sharpcast Inc. today announced the addition of several new sharing and mobile features to its widely popular digital life management service. The company also launched a referral program which will allow users to get up to 10 GB free for each person they refer to sign up for a SugarSync account.

Starting today, SugarSync accounts will have improved folder sharing capabilities, allowing users to easily collaborate with anyone in their Gmail, Hotmail, AOL or Yahoo Mail contact lists. Users can also directly upload photos stored in SugarSync to Facebook, providing a streamlined way to share photos with Facebook friends while also securely storing them in their SugarSync accounts.

) June 1, 2009 -- OW2, the leading consortium in open source middleware, today announced that the open-source application server JOnAS 5 has passed the Java(tm) Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE 5 (tm)) Compliance Test Suite thus becoming the first OSGi based open-source application server to be Java EE 5 certified.

JOnAS 5 provides unparalleled management features and full service continuity to large-scale mission-critical applications. The JOnAS platform allows for automated reconfiguration and management with no impact on running applications. Moreover, JOnAS seamlessly morphs into a small footprint embedded server to support emerging application domains such as M2M, Home Automation and RFID.

The team at MobiForms are proud to announce the release of MobiForms 4.0. MobiForms version 4.0 has been certified with the open-source HSQLDB database. MobiForms includes a free copy of HSQLDB for server, standalone or mobile database applications, complementing the MobiForms Developer tool and the Mobiforms runtime interpreter. MobiForms offers all the tools in one box for the creation and deployment of any type of mobile application from surveys to field service, from signature capture to bar coding.
New features include timers, SMTP email and commands that dynamically change object attributes at runtime like font colours and sizes. The Deployment Wizard has been extended to include more device and operating environment combinations, and a tab for database deployment.

) December 4, 2008 -- ICEsoft Technologies, Inc., December, 02, 2008 - the sponsors of the ICEfaces open source project, announced that a few days ago, an enterprise Java developer somewhere in the world, downloaded the one-millionth copy of ICEfaces! ICEfaces is a leading open source Ajax framework for developing and deploying Java EE applications that are rich, robust, secure, and scalable.

"One million downloads in two years is a great accomplishment for our community and us", states Brian McKinney, ICEsoft CEO. "We are thrilled with the adoption of ICEfaces and will continue to work hard to maintain ICEfaces as the leading Ajax solution for Enterprise Java."

) January 26, 2009 -- Synchronica plc, the international provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, has won a key contract in South America with leading Chilean mobile operator Entel PCS. The agreement, Synchronica's first win in the region, will enable Entel PCS to launch a mass email solution called Email Movil to subscribers, an affordable instant email (push email) and synchronization service that works on a broad range of mobile phones in use today.

TARRYTOWN, N.Y. Open-Xchange Inc., the leading provider of open source groupware, today announced a preview to the new version of Open-Xchange Server Edition, which facilitates effective teamwork and enables document sharing anywhere, anytime, with any device.
Open-Xchange offers email, calendar, contacts, tasks and document sharing to provide companies with all the tools needed to facilitate communication and efficient teamwork. Customers can improve communication and teamwork with simple, intuitive tools and intelligent features, such as smart links between calendar appointments, task lists, contacts, documents, bookmarks and knowledge articles.
Unique features of Open-Xchange Server Edition include:

) March 1, 2009 -- OW2 Consortium, the open source middleware community, is organizing its first Annual Conference on April 1-2 in Paris. With "Open Source for the Computing Infrastructure" as its central theme, the conference will present some of the latest developments in enterprise computing and will demonstrate the maturity of open source for the enterprise information system infrastructure.

) October 28, 2009 -- SIRUNA's new online service OSMOBI mobilizes desktop websites built with open source Content Management Systems like Drupal or Joomla.

SIRUNA, a Belgian managed technology and solution provider for mobile internet, is proud to announce the launch of their new online service OSMOBI. This tool enables Joomla. & Drupal web developers to make mobile websites customized for any device. The new tool is perfectly in line with SIRUNA's market strategy of becoming the reference for mobile web technology in the open source arena.

Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync enables support for most popular mobile devices.

Dmailer recently launched Dmailer Sync v8, synchronization software that provides restoration capability for PC to PC data transfer, automatic detection of email settings and enhanced security.

Santa Monica, California, United States NetSuite Mobile-Email integration allows public and/or private contacts, events, tasks and emails to be synchronized between a NetSuite (NYSE: N) account, a BlackBerry or Palm mobile phone/device and a Microsoft Outlook computer email client. NetSuite Phone integration allows phone calls to be initiated from a NetSuite account.
The following 5 use cases exemplify the functionality of NetSuite Mobile-Email-Phone integration:
1. You are out of the office and you add or update contacts, events and tasks in your mobile phone/device. When you return to the office, connect your mobile phone/device to your computer via USB cable. The contacts, events and tasks will be added or updated in your NetSuite account.

) January 16, 2009 -- India is growing rapidly in both mobile phone penetration and internet usage, making it an ideal market for a mobile-email-for-all solution. India's twelve wireless operators signed up a record 10.16 million new subscribers in March 2008, bringing the total customer base to 261.09 million and making India the second largest wireless market in the world, overtaking the USA with its 258 million subscribers (Unstrung, April 2008). India is also now the third largest country in Asia when measured by the number of internet users, with 60 million users according to Internet World Stats (December 2007).

) December 17, 2008 -- ICEsoft Technologies and the NetBeans™ Community today announced support of the ICEfaces™ open source Ajax framework in the development and deployment of rich, JavaServer Faces™ (JSF) applications using the NetBeans Integrated Development Environment (IDE) and GlassFish™ application server.

With more than 55,000 ICEfaces developers worldwide and more than 1 million downloads, ICEfaces is the leading open source JSF Ajax frameworks for developing Java Platform Enterprise Edition (Java EE) applications that are rich, robust, secure, and scalable.

Open-Xchange Inc., the leading independent open source alternative to Microsoft Exchange, today announced that it has joined the Eclipse Foundation as a new member.
"Open-Xchange is the only independent, open source collaboration software project and product and as such, we are committed to embracing a fully open development framework that is cross platform and that embraces industry standards," said Rafael Laguna, CEO, Open-Xchange. "Today, we are inviting the Eclipse community to fully participate in the evolution of our open communication platform and by doing so, offering contributors and industry partners long-term security to continue independent development."

Bengaluru - OSScamp Bengaluru Mobile! 2008, The OSScamps Community is organizing OSScamp Bengaluru Mobile! 2008 in the city of Bengaluru (Bangalore) on July 19th, 2008. For the first time, the OSScamp Community is organizing an unconference around Mobile Technologies and creating a platform for discussing Mobile Technologies and FOSS in Mobiles in India. The emphasis is on discussing emerging technologies such as OS Development, Social Mobile, Mobile Commerce, Open Standards, Protocols, platform, Databases, Linux Based Devices, Android, Open Moko, Symbian, iphone, green phone, etc.
The unconference is being organized with the International Conference on Communication, Convergence, and Broadband Networking (http://www.ICCBN.net).

Unified MBX Combines Cellular FMC Software with Open Source Telephony for
Low-Cost, Hardware-Free Mobile Unified Communications

) September 14, 2009 -- WaveMaker Software™, the only Open-source Platform as a Service (Open PaaS), announced the release of WaveMaker 5.2. This release introduces one-click deployment to Amazon EC2, making WaveMaker the most easy-to-use cloud development solution.

With WaveMaker 5.2, building cloud applications is as easy as 1-2-3:

1. Leverage existing assets: WaveMaker can re-use existing data, web services and code.

2. Create self-service user interface: WaveMaker's client framework enables end-users to do their own configuration.

3. One-click cloud deployment: WaveMaker's one-click deployment manager moves application directly to Amazon EC2.

Improvements to WaveMaker 5.2

) December 17, 2008 --
AOL launched an updated beta version of AOL Web Mail, http://beta.webmail.aol.com,
offering users one of the most complete e-mail experiences available,
with one-click access to Gmail and Yahoo! Mail accounts, customization
capabilities and over-the-air mobile sync of AOL Calendar and Address
Book. The new AOL Mail Web Suite also includes a gallery of plug-ins and
applications offering immediate access to favorite sites and content. In
addition, a new set of APIs will also be made available to third party

) May 29, 2009 -- New personalized reports developed exclusively by 01.com enable the person responsible for administrating email for an organization (often not a professional email administrator) to get reports themselves and understand at a glance:

• features,
• privileges,
• settings,
• status,
• quotas and
• usage of their
• users,
• resources and
• legal compliance archives.

Small sample of the 01.com Zimbra Cloud Hosting Report.

) November 5, 2008 -- A sea-change in operator attitudes towards mobile gambling services, improvements to handset user interfaces and the gradual introduction of legislation permitting remote gambling in selected markets are among the key factors which are expected to push total annual wagers via mobile phones to more than $27.5bn by 2013, according to a new report from Juniper Research.

August 5, 2008 --
The new iPhone can be as much a part of your business life as your personal life. InfTek, Inc. recently announced that their popular hosted groupware service, Kerio MailServer, is push technology compatible with the iPhone 2.0 firmware.
Kerio MailServer is a hosted groupware and email collaboration software that allows small and mid-size businesses the freedom of shared email, calendars, and contacts without the expense of similar servers such as Microsoft Exchange. InfTek offers two different types of plans to accommodate businesses of any size: InfTek hosts shared Kerio MailServers for smaller business, but dedicated servers are also available for larger companies.

Bharatbook.com included Mobile Email Challenging Blackberry and succeeding in the consumer market report that provides information on the dominant mobile email technologies

) October 19, 2008 --
Mobile Internet technology provider Mobixx announces that it will
now operate under the name Siruna. Siruna’s mobile application gateway is being released on open.siruna.org

Beta Release of Open Source Collaboration Software Connects with Macs and Mobile Devices.

SUNNYVALE, Calif. - TWIKI.NET, the leading provider of open source enterprise collaboration solutions, announced a new release of open source TWiki.
TWiki version 4.2 software includes a new WYSIWYG editor that is easy to use and can significantly reduce the learning curve for first time users. It also offers support for a SQL like query language to aide the end-user in building wiki applications.
This software release coincides with the open source project migration to a new Sun FireTM T5220 server, a Sun Fire X4450 server and a Sun StorageTekTM 5320 NAS Gateway System contributed by Sun Microsystems.

Packt is pleased to announce a new book on Scalix, the open source e-mail and groupware server that runs on Linux. Written by a renowned Linux author Markus Feilner, this book teaches users to install, configure and administer the Scalix Collaboration Platform.
Scalix: Linux Administrator's Guide will help users to set up, implement, and manage both the free open-source Community Edition and the Enterprise Edition of Scalix Collaboration Platform one of the most widely used groupware servers for email, group calendaring, and messaging on Linux.
Scalix can be used very easily by beginners; however, strategies and administrative tasks are difficult to learn and this book will help users to master them all.