Funambol: News: Current Events

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Current Events

Funambol participates in mobile, open source and business conferences, trade shows and symposiums around the world.

Below is our current schedule of events where we will be participating. If you would like to learn more about Funambol solutions, technology, community or our company, please join us at these events. We look forward to seeing you there.

Upcoming Events

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

Available soon -- please check back shortly below under 'Recorded Events'

Funambol has recorded an informative podcast featuring Peggy Anne Salz founder and chief analyst of mSearchGroove. The podcast consists of a discussion and Q&A 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. For more information about the white paper, view the press release. The podcast will be posted shortly.

World Computer Congress 2008


September 7-10, 2008, Milano, Italy

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco will be delivering a keynote presentation at this conference, about open source software and its impact on the mobile industry.

Open Source in Mobile (OSiM) 2008


September 17-18, 2008, Berlin, Germany

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco will be delivering a keynote presentation at this conference. Click here to download the conference brochure (pdf). People who register on the conference website and mention Funambol can receive a 25% discount on the conference fees. Contact Hal Steger of Funambol for details.

Mobile Web Europe


September 24, 2008, London, England

Funambol is chairing a panel about whether the mobile web should be viewed as a channel to build optimized consumer services.

Mobile 2.0


November 3, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco will talk about the impact that the iPhone is having on the mobile industry and how mobile sync is becoming required for Mobile 2.0 apps, services and content.

3GSM Mobile Asia Congress


November 18-20, 2008, Macau

Funambol will be demonstrating our open source push email & mobile sync solutions for the mass market, please stop by and say hello.

Open Mobile Summit


November 19-20, 2008, San Francisco, CA

Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco is appearing on a panel about the future of the mobile web and push email at this event, hope to see you there.

China Mobility 2008


November 24-26, 2008, Beijing

Funambol is participating at this event; if you would like to meet us there, please email us with a subject of China Mobility Meeting Request, hope to meet you there!

GSM 3G Middle East

December 15-16, 2008, Dubai

Funambol is participating at this event; if you would like to meet us there, please email us with a subject of GSM 3G Middle East Meeting Request.

Recorded Events

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.

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.