Funambol offers ad-supported mobile email
February was the month of 3GSM Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, where Funambol debuted its new ad-funded open source mobile email solution for the mass market. It also announced a partnership with Amobee to enable mobile operators and service providers to generate significant revenue from mobile email for mass market users. For details, see link.

The new ad-based solution won the prestigious Mobile Monday Peer Award for Innovative Mobile Email Solution & Market Traction

If you couldn't make it to Barcelona, you can get an impression by reading Funambol's CEO live posts from the booth

Submitting GNU Affero GPLv3 to OSI for approval
The GNU Affero GPLv3 is the license developed by FSF that allows for fair business when software is used as a service, over the networks. It made perfect sense for Funambol to use it and in fact, Funambol was one of the very first Free/Libre Open Source Software (FLOSS) projects to adopt it. Now Funambol has submitted the license to OSI to have it formally approved as Open Source.

Funambol Community Showcase #2: Yahoo Plug-in
This month's showcase focuses on the development of Yahoo Plug-in, the tool that allows syncing contacts between Funambol and Yahoo. It was developed as a Code Sniper project by our community member Paulo Fernandes. Read how he managed to get access to the contacts data stored in Yahoo accounts.

Community Howto: How to sync iPhone Contacts with Goosync
If you have your contacts loaded on the GooSync.com website, you can find instructions on how to sync with Outlook through a Funambol Plugin. For those that don't use Outlook, Emanuele Preda wrote a short tutorial

New partnership deals
Funambol and Simdesk, a Software as a Service (SaaS) messaging and
collaboration provider, have announced a partnership to add push email
and PIM synchronization to SimMobile, Simdesk's next generation mobile
services platform that targets Small and Medium Businesses and
Prosumers.

Open position at Funambol: Symbian developer
The development team is looking for a motivated, highly-technical Symbian developer with excellent development and problem solving skills. This is a unique opportunity to work in Italy for a fast growing open source company.

Want to see Funambol in action?
Funambol is participating in many events over the next several weeks, including Open Source in Mobile (San Francisco) and CTIA Wireless (Las Vegas). For a list of events where you can meet us, see our events page.
If you are interested in a free CTIA exhibits pass in Las Vegas please contact Stefano Maffulli.