REDWOOD CITY, Calif., October 30, 2008 -- Funambol, the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync for the mass market, today announced it has closed its fifth consecutive quarter of growth after signing several major new customers in the past three months. Funambol continues to gain traction among leading service providers, portals, mobile operators and device manufacturers in the Americas and Europe, and is expanding to the Middle East, Africa and Asia. This traction contributed to Funambol just winning the 2008 Mobile Star Award for Best Mobile Consumer Email Software. Funambol CEO, Fabrizio Capobianco, was also recognized as a mobile consumer software visionary.
"We are seeing unprecedented global demand for Funambol's open source Mobile'We' push email and mobile sync from ISPs, portals, carriers and device makers," said Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol CEO. "These companies need a mobile email and sync solution and, as our mobile open source developer community continues to grow, we have the only approach that scales to support and localize for 1.5 billion devices."
In the third quarter, Funambol signed up several new customers, including:
In response to increased demand from the Middle East and Africa, Funambol is opening an office in Dubai and has appointed Farid Behpour as General Manager, Middle East and Africa (MEA). With 20+ years in sales and marketing in the IT and telecom sectors, Behpour ran MEA sales and marketing for a leading mobile payments solutions provider. Behpour also worked for Samsung where he established highly successful regional operations.
Funambol is also expanding into Asia by opening an office in Beijing and appointing Kevin Li as Director of Sales for Asia. Prior to Funambol, Kevin worked for Symbian for 6.5 years, where he was responsible for licensing mobile software to major handset manufacturers in Asia and performing business development with mobile operators throughout the region.
With active Funambol installations growing more than 50 percent this year and reaching three million downloads, Funambol is the world's leading cross-platform mobile open source project and provider of open Mobile'We' services for the rest of us. In addition, the Funambol Forge, which is the online face of the Funambol community, has experienced unprecedented activity, with 1,500 developers registering in the last month. This level of community participation helped Funambol and Fabrizio Capobianco recently gain recognition by Mobile Village for being the best mobile consumer email solution and being a mobile consumer software visionary. For more about these awards, visit http://www.mobilevillage.com/awards.htm.
"We've been leading in mobile open source for five years, but are now seeing interest soar higher than ever as MobileMe and Android drive demand for mobile services," said Capobianco. "Mobile services are the future for mass market audiences. Device makers, operators, ISPs and portals are flocking to mobile open source as they seek the quickest, most reliable and flexible solutions for mobile users everywhere."
Funambol is the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync for the mass market. Funambol open source software has been downloaded three million times by 50,000 developers and project participants 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 AOL, 1&1, Earthlink and CA, Inc. Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, California with an R&D center in Italy. For more information, please visit www.funambol.com.
Jenna Boller for Funambol
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