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London Financial Times (ft.com) Digital Business Podcast
with Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco

Fabrizio Capobianco discusses the open mobile cloud --
click the podcast on Oct 6, 2009 called "Should a CIO manage IT", Funambol starts at 2m 35s.


TelecomTV: Back that up!
Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco discusses mobile cloud sync and Funambol.


At the Whiteboard: Intro to Mobile Cloud Sync


At the Whiteboard: How Funambol Can Work for You


Funambol: Sync Up the Kitchen Sink (siliconANGLE TV, by Robert Scoble)


Mobile Developer TV Video June 12, 2009 -- Episode 13: A walkabout and demo at Funambol


Central Data Bank launches new Funambol-based mobile backup service, includes brief demo:


View Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco's Stanford University presentation (starting around minute 50 for about 25 minutes) at the 'Thought Leaders Seminar for European Entrepreneurship & Innovation'. He discusses several topics, including his beginnings as an entrepreneur in Italy and how Funambol was founded.


Short version of the Funambol v8 Open Source MobileWe Portal screencam (longer version below):


Longer version of the Funambol v8 Open Source MobileWe Portal screencam:


Click here to view a video of Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco discussing the new Funambol MobileWe Portal and providing a quick demo at Mobile World Congress 2009 in Barcelona.


View a Youtube screencam of Funambol Open Source Mobile Sync (it's clear despite this fuzzy image :-)


Watch a Youtube screencam of Funambol Open Source Push Email.


Here is a screencam of AOL Sync powered by Funambol.


Check out other Funambol-related videos on the Funambol Open Source channel on Youtube.


2008 Funambol Developer Conference Presentations

FunCon, November 2008

Review the presentations that were delivered at the Funambol Developer Conference in Milano. You can also see the slides that were used at the conference here.


Java Mobility podcast with Funambol at the
Open Source in Mobile (OSiM) Conference

Java Mobility podcast, September 2008

Funambol Community Manager Stefano Maffulli discusses a wide range of topics about Funambol, including our JavaMe open source push email client, with Terrence Barr.


Free For All: The Untapped Opportunity for Mass Market Mobile Email

Funambol mSearchGroove Podcast, September 2008 (11:52 minutes, 11.1MB, QuickTime Required)

Funambol recorded an informative podcast featuring Peggy Anne Salz, founder and chief analyst of mSearchGroove. The podcast consists of a discussion about a new free whitepaper (downloadable here) that Peggy authored. It describes market trends and opportunities for service providers, portals and mobile operators to provide mobile email for the mass market, including the possibility of providing free mobile email using an ad-funded model. For more information about the white paper, view the press release.


Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobiano Discusses Mobile 2.0 & Open Source

LinuxWorld, August 2008 (44:30 minutes, 52.2MB, QuickTime Required)

Listen to Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco's LinuxWorld '08 presentation on 'Mobile 2.0: How Open Source and Global Communities are Ushering in a New Generation of Mobile Apps, Services and Widgets'. Click here to view his slides.


Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco Interview and Demo

TalkTech, July 4, 2008

Fabrizio talks about the market for free email on mobile devices, the effectiveness of Funambol's worldwide community of developers in building mobile open source software for 1.5 billion phones, and his experience as a web entrepreneur in Italy. He also provides a demo of Funambol running on a RAZR and iPhone.


Podcast with Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco
on Mobile Development Options

LinuxWorld Magazine, October 2007 (17:53 minutes)

This podcast touches on SCO filing for chapter 11 bankruptcy and their claims that new mobile software will keep them going. But the world of mobile software infrastructure and tools is crowded. Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco outlines developer options for building mobile business apps and discusses how synchronization can keep users satisfied.


Apple Universe with Daniel Brusilovkey
Podcast with Funambol VP Marketing Hal Steger

Apple Universe, July 1, 2008 (~12 minutes)

Podcaster Daniel Brusilovsky from Apple Universe interviews Funambol VP Marketing Hal Steger about the difference between Funambol open source mobile sync and push email versus Apple MobileMe. They also discuss several trends occuring in the mobile industry.


Podcast with Funambol VP Marketing Hal Steger
about Mobile Open Source

Technology Gazette, June 24, 2008 (19:45 minutes)

Podcaster Josh Chandler from the Technology Gazette interviews Funambol VP Marketing Hal Steger about the state of open source in the mobile industry.


Q&A with Funambol VP Marketing Hal Steger

Open Source in Mobile Conference, September 2007 (6:12 minutes, 69.8MB, QuickTime Required)

Learn about Funambol's background, their focus on mobile email for the mass market, and how the company works with its open source community in this wide ranging interview with Hal Steger, Funambol Vice President of Marketing, at the Open Source in Mobile (OSiM) conference in Madrid, Spain, in September, 2007.