Mobile Gateway Selected for the Telecoms World Awards Middle East

Dubai, Royal Tunbridge Wells, October 22, 2009. - Synchronica plc, the international provider of mobile email and synchronization solutions, today announced that its product Mobile Gateway has been selected as a finalist in the Telecoms World Awards Middle East in the category Best Technological Innovation.

The awards are run in parallel with the Telecoms World Middle East conference and are awarded to institutions that have done something truly exceptional. The winners of the Telecoms World Awards Middle East are elected by an independent judging panel of international and regional industry specialists.

The award for Best Technological Innovation will go to the individual or organization that has shown the greatest foresight in developing or fostering the development of a technology used or able to be used in delivering or receiving communications services via carrier networks.

Synchronica Mobile Gateway is already used by operators in the region. It extends mobile email and data synchronization to virtually any mobile phone on the market, from smartphones to the most basic mass market handsets, without requiring additional software to be installed on the handset.

The winners will be announced at a gala dinner on 17 November 2009 in the Jumeirah Beach Hotel, Dubai.

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About Synchronica

Synchronica plc is the leading developer of industry-standard mobile push email and synchronization solutions. The award-winning product portfolio includes the flagship email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway and the device backup solution Mobile Backup. Mobile operators in emerging and developed markets use Synchronica's white-labelled products to offer their consumer and business subscribers mobile email, PIM synchronization, and backup and restore services.

Synchronica Mobile Gateway provides a unique multi-protocol gateway combining Push IMAP, SyncML, Email to MMS, and Email to SMS, delivering push email and synchronization to literally any mobile phone currently in the market today. The device backup solution Synchronica Mobile Backup, also based on industry standards, reaches the built-in synchronization clients of more than two billion mobile phones worldwide without requiring an additional client to be downloaded.

Headquartered in England, Synchronica also maintains a development center in Germany in addition to a regional presence in the USA, Hong Kong, and Dubai. Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIM list of the London Stock Exchange (SYNC). For further information, please visit www.synchronica.com

For more information, please contact:

David Clark
Tel.: +44 1892 5527 20
Fax: +44 1892 5527 21
david.clark@synchronica.com