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Funambol Provides Push Email For The Masses

Story posted on: May 17, 2008. Filed in: others.

Funambol Provides Push Email For The Masses

Funambol develops an open source server that mimics Blackberry’s push/sync functionalities that interfaces with any email server like Microsoft Exchange or Lotus Notes. They have also developed a client software that works on most mobile phones.

The great thing is that the Funambol community is very active and quick porting the client to more and more mobile phones, like the Blackberry, though why anybody would want it on the Blackberry is another issue. Its also supported on the iPhone and Google’s Android platform.

The company has a fairly simple demo site at MyFunambol.com that users can point their cellphones to, to try out the push/sync functions. Hopefully all this will see more push email for everybody.

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By Fabrizio Capobianco , 17/05/08 6:11 PM (CommentID #683213)


If you ever thought about using the Gmail BlackBerry client on your phone, you know why the Funambol BlackBerry client makes sense.

In particular, someone using a BlackBerry might also have a personal life, beyond the work life ;-) Therefore, a special consumer email client that allows you to ready your Gmail, Yahoo, AOL, your-own-IMAP/POP-server together with your work email is something that many asked us, and the community built...

Oh, BTW, it also allows you to have BlackBerry features (email + contacts and calendar sync) at a fraction of the BlackBerry BES server costs...

Cheers,

fabrizio

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