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Funambol
is the largest mobile open source project in the world. The company
is also the leading provider of open source mobile cloud sync and
push email software for billions of phones. Funambol solutions have
been adopted by top mobile operators, portals, service providers,
device manufacturers, software companies and system integrators.
Funambol
enables mobile data and content, including email, contacts, calendars,
tasks, notes and pictures, on billions of phones to be synced with
social networks, email systems and PCs via the Internet cloud.
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Company, founded in 2001 |
| Markets
Served: Device OEMs, Telecom |
| Operating
Systems Served: Android, BlackBerry, iPhone, Java
ME, Linux, Mac OS X, Palm WebOS, Symbian, Windows Mobile
Professional, Windows Mobile Standard, Windows XP &
Vista |
| 2008
Mobile
Star Awards™
Winner: |
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| 2009
Mobile
Star Awards™
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- Open
Source Mobile Cloud Sync (Consumer Software: Cloud
Services / Content Sync
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The
core of Funambol is a scalable data sync (DS) platform that performs
mobile cloud sync and push email. The software is based on the Open
Mobile Alliance (OMA) DS protocol, commonly known as SyncML. SyncML
is built into more than one billion mobile phones, enabling Funambol
to sync contacts, calendars, tasks and notes with these devices. Funambol
also provides an open source device management (DM) framework, based
on the OMA DM standard. It enables the rapid creation and deployment
of DM applications for over-the-air (OTA) provisioning, configuration
and management of mobile devices.
The primary value that open source provides is broad device compatibility.
There are four billion cell phones consisting of 1,500+ models. These
phones work differently depending on the mobile network and location,
which makes it difficult to develop a mass market mobile service due
to operational differences. Funambol's global open source developer
community downloads Funambol software and uses it on different phones
around the world. If there are issues, as they have access to the
code, they can make the software work contribute the code and knowledge
back to the community. This open source approach enables Funambol
to support many more devices than proprietary alternatives.
Funambol's push email functionality includes all standard mobile email
functionality. It includes an integrated contacts list that eliminates
the need to type email addresses. It supports attachments on smartphones
such as Windows Mobile and BlackBerry. Funambol provides an AJAX-based
web portal that automates over-the-air (OTA) handset configuration
and email client download that makes it easy to setup and use email
on billions of mobile handsets.
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