Funambol, a company that focuses on mobile cloud sync and push technology, today announced that it has appointed telecom veteran Amit Chawla as its new chief executive.
Chawla previously served as CEO for Agito Networks, which he led to an acquisition by ShoreTel in October. With his 26 years of telecom experience, he will focus on expanding Funambol’s presence among global carriers and enterprises. Funambol’s previous CEO, Fabrizio Capobianco, will serve as the company’s President and Chairman of the Board.
The CEO change is a signal that the company is gearing up to play an even bigger role in the mobile synchronization field, which is set to become more important over the next few years.
The company offers a variety of open-source mobile synchronization software for enterprises, service providers, device manufacturers and more. Funambol’s technology lets companies offer features to customers like push email (having email instantly delivered to your phone, instead of loading it sporadically), mobile cloud synchronization, and mobile device management. The latest version of Funambol’s web portal allows users to synchronize phone pictures as well.
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The company also offers a few standalone apps, like an iPhone Sync Client that lets you synchronize contacts between the iPhone and email software.
Funambol says that it’s beginning to look towards connected devices like web-enabled TVs and digital picture frames, instead of just focusing on mobile phones. The company also touts its technology as the largest open-source mobile project — even bigger than Google’s Android — with 50,000 developers in 200 countries and 4 million downloads.
Funambol says it expects the mobile synchronization space to explode soon, and I’m inclined to agree. As consumers begin to adopt more data-friendly mobile devices, and other connected devices begin to find their way into homes, we will naturally want easy ways to synchronize data across all of our computing platforms.
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