Syncronica, Mobile Syncer, Buys Emailer Axis Mobile

By Editor Wireless and Mobile News on August 18, 2008 12:41 PM

Synchronica , mobile synchronization solutions, today announced that it is acquiring consumer mobile email specialist AxisMobile

The AxisMobile acquisition aims to make Synchronica the leading player in mass market mobile email and synchronization middleware for mobile operators and service providers. It will enable Synchronica to provide mass-market mobile email solutions that work on more than three billion mobile phones in the market today.

AxisMobile’s consumer mobile email platform complements Synchronica’s award-winning Mobile Gateway software by adding ‘email to SMS’ and ‘email to MMS’ gateways as well as a client-less solution for WAP/xHTML browser access. AxisMobile’s patented Optimizer email transcoding gateway further adds the ability to display a large variety of attachments such as Word, Excel and PowerPoint presentations on standard feature phones handsets that would otherwise be unable to support such functionality.

The AxisMobile acquisition will also enlarge Synchronica’s footprint in emerging markets, by adding a strong sales force and key customer contracts in the relatively untapped areas of Eastern Europe, CIS and Russia, to Synchronica’s