Funambol: News: Media Coverage

News

Media and Blog Coverage

August 2008

Funambol featured @ JAJAH Labs as new technology partner

DEMO.com, August 7, 2008

Funambol Updates Open-Source Push E-Mail Tools

WirelessWeek, August 6, 2008
July 2008

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.

June 2008

My.Funambol now with less headache ("It's brilliant")

Interscription (blog), June 20, 2008

How To Sync Just About Anything, Anywhere

My Today Screen (blog), June 18, 2008

Funambol's open source challenge to Blackberry

ComputerworldUK, June 18, 2008

Open-Source Startup Pushes Mail to Millions of Phones

Xconomy, June 18, 2008

Open source push email vendor scores funding

LinuxDevices.com, June 18, 2008

Funambol Raises $12.5 Million Series B: AOL Signs Up As Customer

TechCrunch, June 16, 2008

Can Funambol's open source service overturn RIM?

Techworld, June 16, 2008

Funambol raises $12.5 million, Open-Source Startup Pushes Mail to Millions of Phones deal with AOL

VentureBeat, June 16, 2008

Funambol scores $12.5 million and AOL to fuel global expansion

CNET Blog, The Open Road, June 17, 2008

Funambol Gets Another $12.5M, Lands AOL for Mobile Sync

Mashable, June 16, 2008

Video: Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobiano interview about ad-funded mobile email for the mass market (starts at 2:45 minute mark)

TelecomTV, June 13, 2008

Funambol - AGPL'd, ad-supported mobile open source

the 451 group blog, June 12, 2008

iPhone 2.0 lets open source in through back door

ZDNet, June 11, 2008

Apple's MobileMe vs. Funambol's myFUNAMBOL: An open sync?

CNET, June 11, 2008

Funambol's free alternative to Apple's MobileMe

TechDispenser (ComputerWorld Blog), June 11, 2008

Funambol - Wirelesly sync your iPhone contacts, calendar, tasks, and notes

iPhoneFreakz, June 11, 2008

Funambol readies its open source wireless sync application for iPhone 2.0

IntoMobile, June 11, 2008

Funambol To Offer An Open-Source Competitor
To MobileMe . . . As An iPhone App

TechCrunch, June 10, 2008

Open Source Wireless Sync for iPhone 2.0 Brought by Funambol

TMCNet, June 10, 2008

Sync Your iPhone 2.0 for $99, Or For Free

Wired Webmonkey, June 10, 2008

Funambol launches open source wireless sync for iPhone

SMS Text News, June 10, 2008

Walking Three Tightropes

ComputerworldUK, June 9, 2008
May 2008

Will advertising boost e-mail usage?

RCR Wireless News, May 30, 2008

Outlook Calendar Synchronization Cookbook

IT Consultant Blogger, May 29, 2008

Funambol Pounds Out New Mobile OSS Forge

TechNewsWorld, May 22, 2008

Open Source Mobile: Why Funambol is launching a New Forge

Commercial Open Source Blog, May 21, 2008

Honest Public Licensing: Q&A with Fabrizio Capobianco

InformationWeek, May 19, 2008

Video: Funambol Dash - navigating to your calendar

YouTube video, May 14, 2008

Funambol, Laszlo integrate mobile messaging, Web service

Mobile Marketer, May 13, 2008

Push email gains ad-friendly Web 2.0 app integration

LinuxDevices.com, May 13, 2008

Funambol and Laszlo Systems team up on open source mobile-web messaging

VentureBeat, May 12, 2008

Sun and Funambol partner on Glassfish

Mobile Open Source Blog, May 7, 2008
April 2008

Will a $199 Price Tag Debase the iPhone?

MacNewsWorld, April 30, 2008

Funambol transforme tous les telephones en BlackBerry
(Funambol transforms all phones into BlackBerry [French])

L'Expansion.com, April 25, 2008
March 2008

Open Source Licenses: AGPL is OSI approved now, thank you Fabrizio!

Commercial Open Source Software Blog, March 18, 2008

Will the GPL be overtaken by AGPL?

ZDNet, March 17, 2008

A cure for the "cancer within open source": the OSI approves the Affero GPL

The Open Road (CNET Blogs), March 14, 2008

AGPL Gets OK from OSI

Computerworld, March 14, 2008

Affero General Public License Approved by OSI

Law & Life: Silicon Valley, March 13, 2008

Funambol's mobile open-source opportunity

The Open Road (CNET Blogs), March 1, 2008
February 2008

Mobile ads: Will the carriers be left out?

Telephony Online, February 28, 2008

Funambol at Mobile Monday Awards | Funambol wins (view press release)

YouTube, February 26, 2008

My Mobile Day: Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO of Funambol

SMS Text News, February 26, 2008

MWC - Funambol offers ad-supported mobile e-mail

The Industry Standard, February 5, 2008
January 2008

Android Mobile Platform and Funambol Application Server Synergy

Open Androids, January 22, 2008

Open Enterprise Interview: Fabrizio Capobianco

Computerworld UK, January 21, 2008

Sun's plans for MySQL: wireless?

RCR Wireless News, January 21, 2008

Introduction to the Funambol Application Server

Open Androids, January 21, 2008

Open source entering the mobile computing space

InfoWorld, January 8, 2008
December 2007

Video interview with Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco

Spiderlessweb, December 20, 2007

Walking the Tightrope

ISP-Planet, December 11, 2007
November 2007

1&1 Internet Adds Mobile Support For Open-Xchange Based SaaS Solution

Customer Press Release, November 28, 2007

Funambol to develop open source mobile messaging app for Android

Network World, November 19, 2007

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW: Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco:
Linux Is Mobile's Future

TechNewsWorld, November 16, 2007

Funambol To Sync With Google's Android

InformationWeek, November 15, 2007

Funambol develops open source push email & PIM sync client

Google Phone, November 15, 2007

iPhone Not for British Businesses

BusinessWeek, November 13, 2007

Google Android gets positive early reviews

Network World, November 13, 2007

iPhone gets wireless Outlook synchronisation

ZDNet, November 9, 2007

Funambol challenges iPhone lock with open source app

ZDNet, November 9, 2007

Funambol Offers Free Over-The-Air Contacts Sync

iPhone blog, November 9, 2007

New iPhone app from Funambol does contact syncing cloud-style

CNET crave blog, November 7, 2007

What Does Google's Android Mean For The Open Source Community?

InformationWeek, November 6, 2007
October 2007

Google phone, Motorola Razr2 will finally catapult role of open source, Linux in mobile market

ZDNet, October 30, 2007

Web hoster 1&1 to offer push email via Funambol

Reuters, October 16, 2007

Do You Want Ads with that E-Mail?

WirelessWeek, October 1, 2007
September 2007

The Melting Pot: Segmenting today's open source community

Enterprise Open Source Magazine, September 27, 2007

In the Loop: Make Sure You—And Your Gadgets—Know What's Going On

Entrepreneur Magazine, September, 2007
August 2007

Closing in on Open Sync

WirelessWeek, August 15, 2007

The five phases of maturity for open source software ecosystems

Open Source Unleashed (Alex Fletcher's blog), August 14, 2007

SpikeSource CEO: Linux all grown up

InfoWorld, August 10, 2007
July 2007

Mobile Email by Consumers To Take Off, Says Frost & Sullivan

Online Media Daily, July 20, 2007

Interview with Funambol CEO, Fabrizio Capobianco

iPhone Matters, July 19, 2007

1st OTA contacts application for the iPhone

Dive Deep into the Mobile World..., July 10, 2007

Linux-Based OpenMoko 'Anti-iPhone' Debuts

InformationWeek, July 9, 2007

Mobile Open Source and Sync in an iPhone Era:
Scott Mace Interviews Funambol CEO, Fabrizio Capobianco (Podcast)

ITConversations, July 6, 2007

Funambol invites mobile phone owners, including new iPhone owners, to join its new myFUNAMBOL portal

MobileVillage, July 3, 2007

Bought an iPhone? Fortunately you can afford to sync it with myFunambol

CNET, July 2, 2007

Over-the-air mobile contacts app for iPhone

MacNN, July 2, 2007

New iPhone Applications Announced by Funambol

AC The People's Media Company, July 2, 2007
June 2007

Funambol is ahead of the curve with the Honest Public License

ITBusinessEdge, June 27, 2007

The Open Source CEO: Fabrizio Capobianco

The Open Road (CNET Blog), June 20, 2007

How-To (Beta): Syncronize your Pocket PC (Windows Mobile 5) with Google Calendar for Free

User blog, June 20, 2007

Sync Outlook, Thunderbird, a PDA, and your Smartphone

jhcore.com (Blog), June 10, 2007

"Funambol, in my mind, is the clear winner of syncing solutions. Cross-platform, open source, free, nice UI, remote syncing, and solid performance."

Interview with Edoardo Schepis, Funambol Java ME Tech Lead

360Mobile.us, June 4, 2007

CEOs Weigh in on Latest IDC Open Source Research

InfoWorld, June 4, 2007
May 2007

Funambol provides address book sync to EarthLink

Linux.com, May 22, 2007

Funambol updating open source e-mail service

RCRWireless News, May 21, 2007

Funambol mobilizes the earth(link)

InfoWorld, May 21, 2007

Funambol upgrades open source BlackBerry rival

Network World, May 15, 2007

RIM Outage Makes Case for Openness

WirelessWeek, May 3, 2007
April 2007

Blackberry Dependency Re-evaluated After RIM Service Outage

InformationWeek, April 21, 2007

Democracy Hits the Mobile Phone

Wireless Week, April 19, 2007

Open source email lands on commodity mobiles

Computerworld/PC World, April 2, 2007
March 2007

Un equilibrista per la posta (Italian)

Il Mondo, March 30, 2007

Red Hat CEO praises GPL 3 changes

CNET, March 29, 2007

The GPL Has No (Networked) Future

Linux Magazine, March 29, 2007

Open Source Developer Funambol Finds Mobile E-mail Users Seek Interoperability, Lower Costs

TMCnet, March 26, 2007

As Mobile Phones Grow More Complex, Carriers Insist on Fewer Operating Systems

The New York Times, March 12, 2007

Wireless: Operating systems present problems for mobile phone makers

International Herald Tribune, March 11, 2007
January 2007

Funambol Shows Portal and Java Email Client at 3GSM (Free Article Synopsis)

Computerwire, January 25, 2007

Italians Go Mobile-Global with Funambol

CMSWiRE, January 19, 2007

Delivery and packaging: Making it count

Open Source Unleashed (Alex Fletcher, Entiva Group Analyst), January 17, 2007

Italian Open Source projects: Funambol (Interview with Funambol CEO Fabrizio Capobianco)

Commercial Open Source Software, January 15, 2007

Remote sync your smartphone with SyncML and Funambol

SmallNetBuilder, January 15, 2007

Two principles of successful open source businesses

InfoWorld, January 14, 2007