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Synchronica Launches Free Trial - Delivering Microsoft Exchange Email to the iPhone
Released on = August 8, 2007, 11:44 am
Press Release Author = Nicole Meissner
Industry = Software
Press Release Summary = Synchronica today announced a free trial of its Mobile Gateway 3.0,
providing mobile synchronization between Microsoft Exchange and the native email client of the iPhone. Owners of the
Apple smartphone can now try Mobile Gateway free of charge to send and receive corporate email using their iPhones -
without having to install any software on the device or behind the corporate firewall.
Press Release Body = Royal Tunbridge Wells, August 8, 2007. - Synchronica today announced a free trial of its Mobile Gateway 3.0,
providing mobile synchronization between Microsoft Exchange and the native email client of the iPhone. Owners of the
Apple smartphone can now try Mobile Gateway free of charge to send and receive corporate email using their iPhones -
without having to install any software on the device or behind the corporate firewall.
Until now, owners of Apple\'s ground-breaking smartphone have been largely locked out of corporate mail systems,
because the built-in email client of the iPhone only supports Microsoft Exchange via direct IMAP/SMTP connections -
a feature which is often blocked by corporate firewalls due to security concerns.
Synchronica now provides a secure gateway in the corporate environment using Microsoft\'s Outlook Web Access (OWA) to
retrieve email from the Exchange server, a service enabled by many enterprises to provide users with access to
corporate email from home or while traveling.
Mobile Gateway is a perfect companion to Apple\'s iTunes application. While iTunes synchronizes calendar and contacts
with Microsoft Outlook, Mobile Gateway keeps iPhone users connected to their corporate email once they have left the
office. It provides tight integration between the iPhone and Microsoft Exchange and automatically delivers emails to
the built-in email application of the iPhone, including support for folders and attachments.
Replies and new messages are relayed back to the corporate Exchange server and appear in the \'Sent Items\' folder in
Outlook when the user comes back to the office - no need for the cumbersome copy-to-self workaround.
Signing up for the service is easy and straightforward. Thanks to Mobile Gateway\'s unique zero footprint
architecture, users simply register their iPhones with Synchronica\'s Mobile Gateway and can start to send and
receive wireless email immediately - no software to be installed on the device and no connectors or redirectors to
be installed in the corporate network.
Early adopters of the Apple iPhone interested in a test drive of Mobile Gateway 3.0 can visit www.synchronica.com to
sign up for the free 60-day trial starting today. After the trial period, Synchronica intends to announce migration
options to a commercially supported solution including offerings through service providers.
Commenting on the launch of the free trial, Carsten Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica, said, \"Mobile Gateway has the
unique advantage that it does not require firewall modification or any software to be installed in the corporate
network. So this won\'t cause any headaches for IT managers when their executives bring their iPhones into the office
and ask them to get corporate email on their latest gadget. Other vendors are claiming support for Microsoft
Exchange synchronization with the Apple iPhone, but most are still developing their service and use cumbersome
redirectors or even plan to offer browser-based access to corporate email. We are the only company that can offer
this service straightaway with zero footprint and fully integrated with the built-in email client of the iPhone.\"
Mobile Gateway is operated on the \'edge\' of the network, offered by a service provider as a hosted service or
deployed in the demilitarized zone (DMZ) of the corporate network. Data is protected during synchronization by
encrypted IMAP/SMTP connections to the iPhone and secure HTTPS connections to Microsoft Exchange. Mobile Gateway
provides an IMAP/SMTP proxy for the iPhone, relaying into WebDAV requests - the same protocol used by Microsoft
Outlook Web Access (OWA).
The iPhone is just the latest device supported by Synchronica\'s Mobile Gateway middleware, which enables mobile
synchronization with a wide range of smartphones and mass market feature phones from Nokia, Sony Ericsson, and other
leading manufacturers. Mobile Gateway is based entirely on open industry standards, including IMAP (LEMONADE) for
push email and SyncML (OMA DS) for synchronization of calendar and contact data.
Synchronica\'s Mobile Gateway 3.0 provides carrier-grade push email and synchronization services for both consumers
and business users. Serving consumers, it includes back-end support for POP3 and IMAP, connecting to popular mail
services such as AOL or Google Mail. For business users, it provides built-in support for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus
Notes, and Sun JES, thereby reaching the majority of business users\' mail systems.
About Synchronica
Synchronica plc develops and markets synchronization and device management solutions for mobile operators, device
manufacturers, and enterprises. Its product portfolio ranges from data synchronization (DS) to device management
(DM) and firmware updates over the air (FOTA). Products include the mobile device management product set Mobile
Manager Suite and the push email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway. Headquartered in the UK, with a
development center in Berlin, Synchronica plc is a public company listed on the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.LN).
More information is available at http://www.synchronica.com
For more information, please contact:
Nicole Meissner Chief Marketing Officer Tel.: +44 1892 552 780 Mobile: +44 7977 256 412 Fax: +44 1892 552 721 nicole.meissner@synchronica.com
Web Site = http://www.synchronica.com
Contact Details = Synchronica plc
Mount Pleasant House
Lonsdale Gardens
Royal Tunbridge Wells
TN1 1NY
United Kingdom
Tel.: +44 1892 552 720
Fax: +44 1892 552 721
info@synchronica.com
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