myFUNAMBOL, a free MobileMe alternative
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Apple’s $99 a year MobileMe service was launched in WWDC in June this year. It is a new Internet service that delivers push email, push contacts and push calendars from the service in the “cloud” to native applications on iPhone™, iPod® touch, Macs and PCs.
Apple, however has had its share of troubles with the service with sync issues, e-mail problems, lost data in user accounts etc. to name a few. The company has, in a surprise move, acknowledged these issues in a public blog. CEO Steve Jobs even sent out a company memo acknowledging the issue.
There’s a free alternative for users wanting a better solution and it even supports the iPhone! myFUNAMBOL is a free signup service offering mobile e-mail and PIM sync services. The service also supports phones from Nokia, Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, LG, Apple and other manufacturers.
User can sync their mobile email from Yahoo!, Gmail, AOL and work email using POP/IMAP. The portal includes an address book and calendar for synchronizing contact and calendar data from popular email clients such as Microsoft Outlook and Mozilla Thunderbird, as well as over-the-air with mobile handsets.
myFUNAMBOL uses SyncML, an Open Mobile Alliance Data Synchronization standard for data synchronization which is built into many mobile phones. This enables Funambol to support over 1.5 billion devices. All for free! FUNAMBOL, the company behind the myFUNAMBOL service, just closed a $12.5 million series B round.
