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| Funambol v3 is Announced Funambol has announced the release of Funambol v3, the first open source push email product for carriers and enterprises. Funambol v3 allows customers to deploy this year's "killer app" - push email - to the widest range of mobile phones. Funambol's push email capabilities include 'send', 'receive' and 'forward' functions and allow users to open attachments, check email on and offline, and accept or decline meeting requests. Funambol v3 also provides standard over-the-air synchronization of calendars, to-do lists, contacts, and other Personal Information Management (PIM) data. The server supports RIM BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile, SyncML-compliant phones, and any WAP enabled phone. Funambol v3 is commercial open source software that implements the Open Mobile Alliance Device Management/Device Synchronization (OMA DM/DS) standards, formerly known as SyncML. According to industry analyst data, more than 75 percent of new mobile handsets sold worldwide are SyncML compatible. Open source software allows developers to build mobile data applications with higher quality, better standards compliance and unprecedented device compatibility. Detecon recently reported that mobile email is the most popular mobile data service among consumers even though most carriers don't yet offer the service. In the enterprise, seventy-five percent of the global workforce will be mobile in 2006, according to Gartner Research, and mobile email is the "killer app" driving this forecast. Both the enterprise and consumer markets are demanding better access to mobile email, while developers are struggling to find effective ways to deliver compatible, high quality services. Funambol v3 removes today's barriers, such as hardware and software "lock-in", device testing limitations, and high cost structure, to make mobile email available on the majority of mobile phones. Funambol v3 is the latest product release from Funambol and supports Exchange, Domino, IMAP and POP email servers, utilizes the email client pre-loaded on the mobile device or a WAP browser, and supports end-to-end 128-bit SSL encryption. Previous introductions included Funambol's Personal Information Management (PIM) Portal with functionality based on the OMA standards. The Portal supports Blackberry, Outlook, Palm, Windows Mobile, any OMA/SyncML or J2ME enabled device, and even iPods write your comments about the article :: © 2006 Computing News :: home page |