REDWOOD CITY, Calif., December 4, 2009 -- Funambol, the leading provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of phones, today announced that its mobile cloud platform recently received two preeminent awards. Funambol garnered the 2009 New Product Innovation award for its mobile cloud sync solution from one of the best known analyst wireless firms. The company's mobile cloud sync software was also recognized by winning the SUPERSTAR (top) level in the 2009 MobileVillage Mobile Star awards category of mobile cloud services and content sync. This was the only category that Funambol decided to participate in this year, and follows on MobileVillage's recognition of Funambol in prior years as the leading consumer mobile email software and as a mobile industry visionary.
"The industry analyst award for new product innovation was the result of in-depth interviews and primary market analysis. It shows that our software clearly bested everyone else, in large part because of our basis on open source, which is changing the industry faster than anyone thought", said Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol CEO. "At the same time, the MobileVillage Mobile Star awards are a popularity contest, and it is great to be recognized by many users in the industry as a leading mobile cloud services and content sync platform".
The renowned industry analyst firm wrote an independent, unbiased, non-sponsored report that scored Funambol at 8.6 out of 10, compared to the two runners up, who scored 7 and 6.8. The report measured several criteria, including innovation, leading edge technology, value-added features, increased customer value and potential to help companies acquire customers. The award will be announced at a ceremony in mid-December and the report is immediately available to the analyst company's subscribers.
Funambol was also awarded top honors in the 2009 MobileVillage Mobile Star Award for the mobile cloud services / content sync category for consumers at http://www.mobilevillage.com/awards.htm. "Because 'Go Mobile' readers are the industry's most savvy mobile users, Mobile Star Awards winners can claim they are the users' choice," says Jon Covington, MobileVillage founder and president. "Winners are chosen by real users based on results, not hype. New mobile services competed on equal footing with well-established solutions, and both nominees and winners are respected in the mobile industry as the new leaders to watch."
Funambol is the #1 mobile open source project in the world and the leading provider of open source mobile cloud sync and push email for billions of phones. Our open source software has been downloaded millions of times by 50,000 developers in 200 countries, which helps ensure that our software supports the latest devices most quickly. Our commercial software has been adopted by the top companies in mobile, including many of the largest device manufacturers, operators, service and content providers, software companies and system integrators. Funambol is headquartered in Silicon Valley with R&D in Europe. For more information, please visit http://www.funambol.com. You can also follow Funambol on Twitter at http://twitter.com/funambol.
Kim Terca for Funambol
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