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"Whilst the mobile services market is becoming ever more competitive and dynamic, the massive explosion in mobile web usage being driven by mobile applications can only but help our universe of smaller mobile companies: […] Synchronica […]"

"The new email-centric device represents a significant step forward for Synchronica by enabling mobile network operators to sell a smartphone-like product, but at an affordable price suitable for emerging markets. Given that most mobile operator marketing centers on handsets rather than generic mobile services, the device will be given far greater presence in operator marketing."

"Synchronica has undoubtedly made significant progress during the first half of 2009 which included inaugural revenues from a major U.S. hardware and software provider, signed an agreement with Nokia Siemens Networks as a unique global sales channel, and announced several new network customers in India, Eastern Europe, and Latin America."

"Synchronica's speciality is offering email on even the most basic, recycled phone."

"Synchronica is just the kind of growing high-tech company that Britain needs to encourage if it's to remain internationally competitive in the future."

"Synchronica is a key player within the emerging open industry messaging market. Its zero footprint software architecture and low TCO proposition for mobile email synchronization to most mobile devices available today represent a major challenge to the proprietary middleware players currently dominating this space."

"Synchronica has long demonstrated their commitment to open industry standards, and we are very much looking forward to working with them."

"The number of mobile phone subscribers in emerging markets in the Asia Pacific region is expected to grow to over a billion in the next three years, from just under 500 million in 2007. Mobile operators in Asia's high-growth emerging nations are focused on introducing value-added services based around flat rate pricing plans that will appeal to these consumers. An affordable mobile email solution that works on any handset is just such a service. The Synchronica service supports the fixed-mobile substitution phenomenon that is prevalent in Southeast Asia and also provides operators with a compelling solution for reducing churn."

"Only five percent of the world's mobiles are smartphones, and operators in emerging markets are looking for ways to establish phones rather than PCs as the route to the web. Email access is key, and while there are other companies doing the same thing, Synchronica's Mobile Gateway is one of only two that doesn't put software on phones."

"The company has a technology named Mobile Gateway which enables mobile phone users to send and receive email from consumer mailboxes […] The technology is proving to be highly popular in emerging economies […]"

"The appeal of the gateway is that it works on virtually all kinds of handsets, whether they are smartphones, feature phones, or basic phones, expanding the mobile email footprint to almost the entire customer base."

"In today's climate, being able to offer subscribers a low-cost mobile email service that works on existing handsets makes commercial sense. Synchronica Mobile Gateway fits our business model perfectly and is already proving that it can help to reduce churn rates and raise ARPU."

"We share a common view with Synchronica that value-added services, such as mobile email, represent the future for our business. We are continually looking to provide our customers with life-enhancing value-added services that raise ARPU and improve customer loyalty, and with the Synchronica Mobile Gateway we have a simple and easy to use email solution that will help us do just that."

"We're excited about offering businesses and consumers in the Indian subcontinent a hosted mobile email and synchronization service based on Synchronica's ground-breaking technology. Synchronica's solution is ideal because it works on mass market phones, a prerequisite in India where smartphone penetration is very low."

"Synchronica's software-based mobile email offering must compete against web-based alternatives, but in an environment of possibly constrained spending there is an obvious attraction to the conversion of an existing device to receive not just SMS but also email."

"As workforces become increasingly mobile, consumers are demanding access to email, calendar, and contact information no matter their location or type of phone. Synchronica Mobile Gateway solves this problem by delivering a superior mobile email solution to the global mass market that is both cost-effective and offers a high-quality user experience."

"Our customers are always looking for more efficient ways of working, and we believe that offering them a cost-effective, highly secure hosted mobile email service will tick all the right boxes. We've reviewed a number of mobile email products before selecting Synchronica Mobile Gateway for its ease of deployment, its zero footprint architecture, and its ability to work with virtually any phone in use today. We plan to start offering this secure, hosted mobile email service to customers immediately."

"There's definitely a lot of interest in mobile email from companies and prosumers, and a service like Synchronica's that does not require people to go out and buy expensive mobile phones makes a lot of sense. Synchronica will give businesses, prosumers, and consumers in the Middle East, Africa, and India a more affordable alternative to the BlackBerry."

"We are delighted to partner with Synchronica, as Mobile Gateway is an outstanding product. As a global leader we seek value-added solutions for the global wireless market, and Mobile Gateway is best in class. We see a huge opportunity for push email and synchronization solutions, and Mobile Gateway is sure to generate tremendous interest across the world."

We expect very high annual growth rates in penetration [for wireless push email] over the next four years, an average of roughly 107 percent per year in growth. And likewise, we expect rapid revenue growth rates in this space as well. We forecast roughly 49 percent of annual average growth in revenue in wireless push email space through to 2011."

"We have always believed that OMA DS and IMAP formed a critical basis for open standards-based vendors to take their slice of the mobile email market. This acquisition [of GoodServer] will open up mobile email and PIM synchronization to the majority of consumer and corporate mobile phones, with the potential for significant incremental mobile data revenues to operators, ISPs, and service providers."

"We're excited to be working with Synchronica because this relationship extends Sun's reach beyond the already wide range of desktop clients to a large number of mobile devices. This collaboration also enables our application server developers to build feature-rich and scaleable mobile applications that support both connected and disconnected operations."

"Unlike other vendors that have opted for either Push IMAP or SyncML for mobile email, Synchronica's Mobile Gateway supports both SyncML and Push IMAP, enabling business and consumer users to benefit from the optimization delivered by both technologies."

"Mobile email is on the verge of mass market adoption, and the number of mobilized email accounts will explode over the next three years. Mobile operators have every interest in rolling out mobile email solutions to their networks, and see it as an indispensable element in their competitive strategy. Solutions that are based on open mobile standards, such as Synchronica's Mobile Gateway, are in the best position to take advantage of this growth."

"We have added the Synchronica Mobile Gateway to our product range because it is the most competitive solution for the mobile workforce today: over-the-air email, calender, contacts, and tasks. That's mobile freedom for our SME companies."

"Synchronica's Mobile Gateway convinced the jury with its broad field of application. The email push functionality for employees on the road - from Board members to the sales force - is its most desired feature. Unlike other solutions, the Mobile Gateway synchronizes with both Microsoft Exchange Server and Sun Java Enterprise System (JES). As well as this, all mobile devices compliant with the industry standard SyncML (OMA DS) can be integrated. This encompasses a wide range of devices that is only set to increase in the future. What also speaks well for Synchronica is the easy configuration of the system, as well as the fact that the solution can be applied by both the service provider and the enterprise."

"Maturing open mobile email standards and notably more aggressive mobility plays among email ASPs will prove to be major catalysts in mobilizing over 15 percent of business inboxes by 2009 and cutting today's USD 30-plus ARPU's in half. By wringing cost, complexity, and IPR uncertainty of out of the solution delivery equation, we see both ASP models and the advent of standards as critical, long-term enablers that will put a good mobile email experience well within reach of the average business user […] Standards pioneers like […] Synchronica […] show significant upside potential in the long term."

"If they execute well, newcomers, such as Synchronica […], are well positioned to exploit an expanding base of OMA DS (Open Mobile Alliance Device Sync, formerly SyncML) and eventually P-IMAP-enabled handsets. Open standards promise to deliver services comparable to today's midrange mobile email solutions free of licensing costs, behind-the-firewall servers, and NOCs […] Synchronica has a robust solution leveraging OMA DS and P-IMAP."

"Open-standard products promise low cost solutions on a wide range of devices. While the better-known middleware providers fight it out (and push up end-user costs) these vendors, such as Synchronica […], are often providing solutions behind the scenes through tier two carriers / ISPs, device vendors within particular geographies, and indirectly through OEMs and VARs. In the case of SyncML / OMA DS-based device management and synchronization (vs. a proprietary solution, such as RIM's BES, for example), there is much less complexity, broader device diversity, and the end-user does not have to do anything themselves […] Synchronica focuses on serverless automated solutions, using carriers and ASPs to host the device management and push email / PIM functionality."

"Synchronica has a compelling solution that enhances Ogo's value, and we are excited to be working with them."

"The internet has become increasingly mobile. Does this mean the internet will conquer the mobile world? We believe that Synchronica's Mobile Gateway has exactly that potential. We are sure that this will become an alternative to popular SMS text messages in Germany."

"What makes Mobile Gateway Enterprise Edition different from other enterprise mobile email offerings is that it works on almost any phone in use today. This makes it ideal for today's tough economic conditions because businesses do not need to spend a fortune on new handsets and expensive contracts to cascade mobile email through the organization and realize productivity gains."

"The MessagePhone solution provides operators in emerging markets with a significant addressable market that can help them to win the battle for identity management. The device-centric solution provides benefits to operators desperate to offset falling voice revenues by increasing the size of revenues generated from data services and to retain existing customers at a time when users are becoming more fickle."

"The MessagePhone has been designed from the ground up to provide operators in emerging markets with a low-cost, yet high-quality, full-featured next-generation messaging device. With two significant operators already having signed contracts, we are confident that MessagePhone will appeal to a broad cross section of operators in emerging markets."

"We wanted to be able to offer our customers an OTA backup and restore facility for their personal data which would mean that a change of phone - either due to loss or upgrading - would not mean losing all their important information. With the Synchronica solution we can provide our customers with seamless data migration from one device to another, quickly and easily. We also liked the fact that Synchronica's software is based on the SyncML open standard, meaning it works on a wide range of devices."

"It can take a user who has lost a device upwards of three months to restore their contacts, thus taking upwards of three months to return to previous revenue-generating call levels and text messaging."

"Mobile Manager is a powerful tool that allows customers to easily manage their Windows Mobile devices. This is clearly a key benefit for today's business users whether they are SMEs or large organizations that require complete device control."

"OTA is becoming increasingly important in the enterprise world where companies are arming their employees with smartphones which often contain confidential data including corporate email, Word and Excel documents, and remote access to corporate database information. Synchronica's solution provides a simple and effective way to protect corporate data and the personal privacy of smartphone owners."

"Organizations that deploy effective mobile management solutions have 10 to 15 percent lower overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) than companies that deploy mobile devices / solutions without a mobile management plan. While TCO varies by device type and application, it is not uncommon to see USD 150 to 250 savings per user per year. With mobile management tools costing USD 50 to 100 per user (depending on functionality and volume), it is clear that mobile management has an attractive ROI."

"Mobile device management is a key issue. Synchronica's Mobile Device Management products do answer manufacturers', operators', and enterprises' requirement for a software solution that is easy to deploy, yet provides a comprehensive set of capabilities for deploying, managing, and securing a wide range of mobile devices, and for enforcing the policies necessary to protect corporate assets and comply with regulation."