Welcome to Funambulletin, Funambol's new 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 for it, please contact Stefano Maffulli, Funambol's new community manager, at stefano.maffulli-at-funambol com. 2008 is poised to be an exciting time for Funambol software, our community and customers. We plan to provide many new capabilities for our software and to extend and improve our support for the latest mobile devices, including the iPhone (more when the SDK becomes available), Google Android, BlackBerries and more. We also plan to become more involved with our community, to help you take full advantage of our mobile open source software and to expand our popular Phone Sniper and Code Sniper programs. We would like the Funambol community to be known as a great example of a group of people around the world that help each other build great mobile software and services. We are also planning some major new initiatives and customer announcements, a preview of which is described below. Funambol will be demonstrating the latest version of our open source push email & PIM sync software at 3GSM MWC, running on the latest devices, including the iPhone, Google Android, RIM BlackBerry and others. We will also be announcing a major partnership with a mobile ad company and showing a demo of a new ad-based open source mobile email solution. This enables mobile email to be deployed for the mass market for an extremely low cost or even free, and it can generate significant revenue for mobile operators, service providers and web portals. We'll also be talking about how Funambol has recently been selected by some of the leading mobile companies in the world, such as 1&1, the world's largest web hoster with 71M email accounts, a major U.S. carrier, two of the top five device manufacturers and one of the top three portals (names have been suppressed to protect the innocent, until these customers are officially announced). We will be giving away a cool new Funambol kite, with the theme of "Soaring High with Funambol" (while supplies last). We have a few remaining free exhibit passes for 3GSM that allow entrance to the exhibit area (not the conference talks). If you would like one, please email Stefano Maffulli with your name, company name, email address and country. If we are able to provide you with a free pass, we will let you know. If you would like to arrange a specific meeting time with Funambol at 3GSM, please email info@funambol.com with the nature of your request. Alright, so you've got an iPod Touch and you use GNU/Linux: how do you sync your contacts with it? With myFunambol, Funambol's iPhone client, following are the instructions by Luis Medina, valid for Fedora Core 8, but easily adaptable to other distributions. Read the content (in Spanish) from the link below. Would you like to translate it in English? Contact us. Are you a Java developer using Netbeans to write Funambol extensions? Use the free sync4j Netbeans plug-in contributed by Rueth Schilling. Grab code and instructions at the link below. The first of a series of blog posts that shows the vitality of Funambol's community focuses on SyncEvolution, the tool to sync contacts and calendar between Funambol and the GNOME open source desktop environment. Patrick Ohly's contribution is also the foundation that allows syncing the iPhone. Read the whole story on the link below. Glyn Moody presents Funambol as a company that breaks stereotypes: Open source startups are not something you associate with Italy. Great art, music and architecture; fine food and wines; stylish design: maybe, but companies constructing masterpieces of code, no. And yet Funambol is precisely that: an increasingly successful startup writing free software for mobile phones and the backend systems that serve them. Android, OpenMoko, LiMo and the rest of the mobile Linux platforms, plus the iPhone: where is the mobile email market going? Funambol published the position paper How Google Android Stimulates the Mass Market for Mobile Email and how Funambol Mobile Open Source Monetizes, a good read available on the link below (free registration required).
How Google Android Stimulates the Mass Market for Mobile Email Are you new to Funambol and willing to know more? A very clear introduction to the Funambol Application Server is on the OpenAndroid blog. Big acquisition: Sun buys MySQL AB. What will happen? Our Fabrizio Capobianco told RCR Wireless News: “Sun has deep aspirations for the mobile market, and while there are not short-term implications of their MySQL acquisition to mobile, Sun now has the potential to aggressively promote open source database technology as a platform for enterprise mobile applications,” Read the rest of the article on :wireless. Stefano Fornari to speak at upcoming AJAX World Conference Session, in New York, March 18-20, 2008, on Developing Open Source Mobile Messaging and Sync Apps for iPhone vs. Android. Check out the events page on our website for details.
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