Funambol – Mobile 2.0 Messaging Powered by Open Source
http://www.funambol.com/

The name Funambol is derived from the Latin words funis (rope) and ambulare (walking), meaning a tightrope walker. Just as a tightrope walker must be strong, brave, vigilant and nimble to constantly adapt to changing conditions, Funambol continuously balances the needs of our open source community and the marketplace. Mobile 2.0 is the next HUGE wave of innovative mobile services and data. Whereas Web 2.0 meant user generated content (wikis, photo sharing), collaboration (social networking) and interactive technology such as AJAX, Mobile 2.0 is ushering in a similar era to wireless, and Funambol is at the forefront. Mobile 2.0 is the outgrowth of several compelling trends: a) Better, faster, cheaper wireless devices, networks and data services and plans, b) Messaging “maturation”, where people are looking beyond SMS/texting for the next cool mobile experience, and c) Emerging technology such as mobile search, presence, location-based services and navigation. Their vision is to harness and popularize the innovation that open source can bring to the new world of mobile 2.0 messaging. They believe this will spur important, creative and exciting new forms of mobile communication, collaboration and entertainment. Started in 2001 as the Sync4j open source project, Funambol has grown to be the world’s leading mobile open source project, with more than one million downloads, supported by the largest global mobile community, and used by mobile operators, service providers, enterprises and OEMs/ISVs/ODMs everywhere. This has been added to World Wide Web Reference Subject Tracer™ Information Blog. This has been added to the tools section of Research Resources Subject Tracer™ Information Blog.