It said its Mobile Gateway, which was formerly known as Synchronica SyncML Gateway, combines SyncML for calendar and contact integration with Push-IMAP for mobile email synchronization.
The Tunbridge Wells, UK-based company said that while offerings like RIM’s Blackberry and Visto are popular with business users, it believes the mass-market requires industry standards, which means supporting devices from a wide variety of manufacturers. Its Mobile Gateway does not require additional software installation on the client device.
Synchronica’s Mobile Gateway includes back-end support for POP3 and IMAP, connecting to popular mail services such as MSN or Yahoo. For business users, it provides a zero footprint architecture where users register their devices with Mobile Gateway before receiving email on their devices. It includes built-in support for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, and Sun JES.
In January Synchronica announced that it had cut 38 members of staff from its 86-strong workforce as it refocused its business model. It also said it had focused its development on one software platform, Java, and was on the look-out for exclusive licensees of its Mobile Manager product that enables services providers to offer customers outsourced management of devices.
