Company Wins Mobile Monday Peer Award for Innovative Mobile Email Solution
& Market Traction
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Funambol, the leading
provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source, today
announced it won the highest ranked Expert Jury Award from the Mobile
Monday Peer Awards 2008 given out in conjunction with 3GSM Mobile World
Congress in Barcelona, Feb. 11-14. The awards were determined as part of an
evaluation and selection process that was conducted during the first day of
this week's conference.
Funambol was chosen by an expert jury representing a global
cross-section of leading mobile operators, search engines, online portals
and wireless startups. Funambol presented its ad-funded mobile email
solution and discussed its recent market traction of being deployed
commercially at customers with a combined subscriber count of over 300
million users.
"With all the buzz about BlackBerry outages, iPhones, Android and
smartphones, it's easy to forget that less that 2% of the world's 3.3
billion mobile phone users get email on their phone," said Fabrizio
Capobianco, CEO of Funambol. "I think the expert jury was impressed by both
our unique open source model and our business model that together enable
mobile email and content to be delivered to the other 98% of mobile users.
We are honored to be considered as amongst the best-of-the-best mobile
growth companies by our peers."
Funambol this week is demonstrating its award-winning ad-funded open
source mobile email solution at Mobile World Congress at stand #1J46 in
Hall 1.
Funambol last week announced a partnership with Amobee Media Systems,
the world leader in advertising solutions for mobile operators, to provide
the first ad-funded open mobile email solution for the mass market. The
company further announced that it has gained significant market traction,
signing up new customers that included one of the top three online portals
in the world, two of the top five device manufacturers and a large U.S.
wireless operator. These new customers were the basis for the company's
most successful quarter on record, indicating that its open source approach
is accelerating the adoption of mobile email for the mass market.
About Funambol
Funambol provides mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source.
The company is the leading provider of open source push email and PIM sync
solutions for the mass market. Funambol open source has been downloaded
2,000,000 times by tens of thousands of developers and users in 200
countries. The commercial version of Funambol has been deployed at service
providers, mobile operators, portals, device manufacturers and ISVs
including customers such as 1&1, Earthlink and CA, Inc. (formerly Computer
Associates). Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, CA with an R&D
center in Italy. See http://www.funambol.com.
Media Contact
Shelly Milam for Funambol
Page One PR
(415) 875-7491
shelly@pageonepr.com
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Related links:
http://www.funambol.com
CONTACT:
Shelly Milam of Page One PR, +1-415-875-7491,
shelly@pageonepr.com, for Funambol
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