Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, and Smaato, a pioneering provider of mobile advertising platform technology, today announced that they are forming a partnership and have integrated their solutions. The joint solution provides mobile operators, service providers and online portals with an ad-funded open source push email solution, enabling them to generate revenue by providing free push email and PIM synchronization for billions of users.
Funambol today announced that it has enhanced its free myFUNAMBOL Portal to automatically sync calendar events to the Dash Express, the first Internet-connected navigation system. This enables people to access their calendars from virtually any source, including Outlook, online services and mobile devices, on Dash Express, then route to meetings. The new service eliminates the need to manually enter destinations into the GPS making it easy for people to keep track of appointments and arrive on time.
Funambol and Laszlo Systems today announced that they are integrating the commercial versions of their award-winning Mobile 2.0 and Web 2.0 messaging solutions. The joint offering combines Laszlo Webtop, a unified web-based communication suite that includes email, contacts, and calendar, with Funambol's push email and PIM sync software, which is deployable across 1.5 billion mobile phones.
Open source startups are not something you associate with Italy. Great art, music and architecture; fine food and wines; stylish design: maybe, but companies constructing masterpieces of code, no. And yet Funambol is precisely that: an increasingly successful startup writing free software for mobile phones and the backend systems that serve them.
Funambol today announced it has released an open source native app for iPhone contact synchronization. The Funambol plug-in for iPhone synchronizes the iPhone's address book with contacts from popular sources such as Yahoo! Mail, Gmail, Microsoft Outlook, GNOME Evolution and SyncML servers such as the Funambol server.
Funambol today announced that the AGPLv3 has received formal approval by the Open Source Initiative (OSI). Funambol led the process of the license's approval by the OSI after adopting AGPLv3 in November. It was the first company to adopt the license, which closes the "ASP loophole".
Funambol today announced the availability of an important new white paper detailing the opportunity for mobile operators and service providers to turn mobile email for consumers into significant new revenue. The free white paper, Open Source Push Email & PIM for the Consumer Market, is immediately available.
