Synchronica Remains Focussed on Providing Mobile Email

By Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica

Funambol has announced that it has acquired Zapatec, a maker of web-based application technology. The combined companies hope to launch what they call a new generation of "sync and push apps" for mobile devices. What is your opinion on this?

Funambol is becoming a personal information management vendor (PIM vendor) competing with the Sun Java Communications Suite, Microsoft Exchange, Zimbra, Communigate and other PIM vendors.

Synchronica remains focussed on providing mobile email and synchronization gateways between mobile devices and PIM systems as well as social networks. Funambol has a different strategic direction and is no longer a gateway vendor, but is trying to be the front-end to the end-user.

We think our industry standard-based approach and focus on the gateway is the right strategy.

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.L). For further information, please visit www.synchronica.com

For more information, please contact:

Nicole Meissner
Chief Operating Officer
Tel.: +44 1892 552 780
Mobile: +44 7977 256 412
Fax: +44 1892 552 721
nicole.meissner@synchronica.com