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Emerging mobile tech to watch out for

Rupert Goodwins ZDNet.co.uk

Published: 12 Feb 2008 12:31 GMT

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One of the best bits of the Mobile World Congress is finding small companies doing smart things. Funambol writes open-source software that provides push email, data synchronisation, software deployment and so on — and because it's open source, its user community is constantly adding new phones to its supported roster.

Right now, the company claims that it supports half the phones in the world, and that companies like CA and HP are using the software for enterprise deployment. Its latest idea is ad-supported push email, where a one-line advert appears in your email list: Funambol says this could make push email services free for consumers and profitable for operators.

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