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| Welcome to the Spring issue of Funambulletin, where we strive to bring you the best, most interesting and entertaining news about mobile open source. Exclusive Funambol Introduces World's First Touchless iCar Borrowing from the iPhone, Funambol is premiering the world's first finger gesture operated vehicle. With no steering wheel, it makes driving a snap. Check out the press release and test drive video a day before anyone else. Funambol Events See Funambol at CTIA Funambol is showcasing its next major version, MobileWe v8, at CTIA, April 1-3. It includes an all new AJAX portal that makes it easy to sync content from billions of mobile phones with the Internet cloud and popular email systems and desktop apps. For more information about our doings at CTIA and to arrange a meeting, see our advisory. Funambol Video Funambol v8 Open Source MobileWe Portal Screencam Not headed to CTIA? See a screencam of the new portal on Youtube, here's the long and short of it. Free White Paper Mobile Sync, the New World Order This new white paper describes the trends that are making cloud sync compelling. It also discusses the requirements for a mobile sync solution and how open source satisfies these requirements. Get the free white paper instantly after website registration. Product Update New Phone Pack Supports BlackBerry Storm Funambol just completed work on its new monthly 'phone pack' that supports the latest mobile devices. It supports the BlackBerry Storm as well as lays the foundation to support other touchscreen devices more quickly. The new phone pack will be made available shortly on the free myFUNAMBOL portal. We will issue a press release in the next few days to signal that the phone pack is installed and ready for action. Community News New Funambol Forge Home Page Our new forge has had an extreme home (page) makeover, check it out. It shows how dynamic our community is and makes it easier to download software and access other content. Our downloads and community traffic have reached record levels since the home page was redesigned a few weeks ago. Thanks to everyone who provided feedback on the new home page and helped make it happen. Open Source Update Write Code, Get Paid We recently suggested several new Code Sniper projects that community developers can work on and get paid and recognized for their contribution. These include a Syncml Graphic Client for Maemo, GNOME Eplugin for Evolution, LinkedIn Contacts Client, Skype PIM Client, Eclipse integration and Netbeans integration. Check out the Code Sniper page for details. Funambol Customers Millions of Users Adopting Funambol There has recently been a surge in customers, ranging from established companies to startups, who have deployed Funambol Carrier Edition. These customers collectively have millions of users and have implemented some highly innovative uses of mobile sync and push email. We will be issuing a press release about them in the next few days as well as blogging and tweeting about them. Thought Leadership Smart Cloud Syncing, the Next Mobile Holy Grail? Check out this interesting OSTATIC article about smart cloud app syncing as the next mobile frontier. Fun Tweet Favorite Tweet of the Month We love reading everyone's tweets, but this one caught our attention: "iPod Touch Sets Kid's Pants on Fire. I feel bad for the kid, but it's an amusing story." |
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| CTIA Wireless 2009 April 1-3, 2009, Las Vegas Funambol is showcasing its new Funambol v8 Open Source MobileWe Portal for billions of phones. Check out this advisory for more information and to arrange a meeting. | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Funambulletin is Funambol's periodic newsletter that contains mobile open source community and industry news, views, tips and happenings. We hope that you find Funambulletin to be informative, useful and entertaining. If you have any suggestions or contributions, please contact Stefano Maffulli, Funambol community manager, at maffulli-at-funambol com. | ||||||||||||||||||
| About Funambol Copyright (C) 2009 Funambol. All rights reserved. Funambol is the leading provider of open source push email and mobile sync worldwide. 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 1&1, Earthlink, AOL and CA, Inc. Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, CA with an R&D center in Italy. For more information, please visit www.funambol.com. |
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