Released on: November 4, 2007, 11:11 pm

Press Release Author: Synchronica

Industry: Telecommunications

Press Release Summary: Synchronica plc, a leading international vendor of mobile
synchronization and device management software, today announced that it has acquired
essentially all assets of the U.S. mobile email specialist GoodServer. GoodServer\'s
technology is a key component of Synchronica\'s Mobile Gateway and underpins the
mobile email products of a number of players in the telecoms market. The acquisition
will give Synchronica sole rights to GoodServer\'s intellectual property (IP) and
existing license contracts.


Press Release Body: Royal Tunbridge Wells, Indianapolis, November 5, 2007. -
Synchronica plc, a leading international vendor of mobile synchronization and device
management software, today announced that it has acquired essentially all assets of
the U.S. mobile email specialist GoodServer. GoodServer\'s technology is a key
component of Synchronica\'s Mobile Gateway and underpins the mobile email products of
a number of players in the telecoms market. The acquisition will give Synchronica
sole rights to GoodServer\'s intellectual property (IP) and existing license
contracts.

With a global addressable market of more than three billion mobile phone users and
an additional one billion subscribers expected in the next 18 months, the market for
push email is set to increase drastically as mobile email and personal information
management (PIM) services cross over into the mainstream. Industry analyst Forrester
estimates that mobile consumer email will grow to 62.7 million users by 2008, easily
outnumbering business users receiving and sending emails with their mobile devices.

Strategy Analytics cites the open standards Push IMAP / LEMONADE and OMA DS
(formerly SyncML) as being crucial for the growth of mobile email in the mass
market, where consumers cannot afford to use expensive smartphones. GoodServer
provides email server technology with proven implementations of the most important
industry standards and is best known for its IMAP4 Server Software Development Kit
(SDK), POP3 Server SDK, and SMTP Server SDK.

The IMAP and SMTP technology of GoodServer is embedded in Synchronica\'s Mobile
Gateway, making push email accessible on the majority of mass market phones. Other
licensees of GoodServer\'s IP include Nokia Intellisync, BellSouth, Cisco, NUASIS,
Teamware, and Axis Mobile. Under the terms of the agreement, Synchronica will be
granted sole rights to the intellectual property and will benefit from future
revenues of all existing license contracts.

\"Open industry standards have cleared the way for accessing PIM and email on mass
market phones, and the mobile email market is set to explode over the next three
years. We expect a dramatic increase of mobile email, in particular in emerging
markets, where the mobile operators have the opportunity to make the mobile phone
the primary form of accessing the internet and email services\", said Carsten
Brinkschulte, CEO of Synchronica. \"By acquiring the rights to GoodServer\'s
technology and extending our own IP licenses to other players in the industry, we
are strengthening our position in the market for consumer and corporate mobile
email.\"

Synchronica\'s Mobile Gateway provides a unique combination of industry
standards-based solutions for delivering mobile email and synchronization to the
vast majority of mobile phones - without requiring additional clients to be
installed on the handsets. It supports calendar and contact synchronization for the
estimated 1.5 billion OMA DS-compatible mobile phones (source: Visiongain) in use
today. For push email, Mobile Gateway uses LEMONADE (OMA EMN and IMAP IDLE),
enabling operators and service providers to deliver push email to both smartphones
and mass market feature phones.

Commenting on the acquisition, Andrew Brown, Director for Strategy Analytics\'
Wireless Practice said: \"We have always believed that OMA DS and IMAP formed a
critical basis for open standards-based vendors to take their slice of the mobile
email market. This acquisition will open up mobile email and PIM synchronization to
the majority of consumer and corporate mobile phones, with the potential for
significant incremental mobile data revenues to operators, ISPs, and service
providers.\"

About Synchronica Mobile Gateway

Synchronica\'s Mobile Gateway provides push email and synchronization services for
both consumers and business users. For consumers, it includes support for Gmail,
AOL, and any IMAP or POP3 mailbox, adding a push email experience with automated
over-the-air device configuration for easy setup. For business users, Mobile Gateway
provides built-in support for Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Domino, and Sun Java
Communications Suite, thus synchronizing with the majority of business email
systems, without requiring any software to be installed on the phone or connectors
to be installed behind the corporate firewall. This unique zero footprint
architecture makes Mobile Gateway extremely attractive to operators and service
providers.

About GoodServer

GoodServer, founded by David Rauschenbach in 1996, is a provider of email enablement
and integration technologies. Key products include IMAP4 Server SDK, POP3 Server
SDK, and SMTP Server SDK, which together provide complete implementations of the
dominant industry standard protocols used to send and receive email, and AGMS, which
is GoodServer\'s second-generation email middleware server and integration platform.

About Synchronica

Synchronica plc develops and markets synchronization and device management solutions
for mobile operators, device manufacturers, and enterprises. Its product portfolio
ranges from data synchronization (DS) to device management (DM) and firmware updates
over the air (FOTA). Products include the mobile device management product set
Mobile Manager Suite and the push email and synchronization solution Mobile Gateway.
Headquartered in the U.K., with a development center in Germany and offices in the
USA, Hong Kong, and Dubai, Synchronica plc is a public company traded on the AIM
list of the London Stock Exchange (SYNC.LN). More information is available at
http://www.synchronica.com

For more information, please contact:

Nicole Meissner
Chief Marketing Officer
Tel.: +44 1892 552 780
Mobile: +44 7977 256 412
Fax: +44 1892 552 721
nicole.meissner@synchronica.com


Web Site:
http://www.synchronica.com/news/071105-synchronica-acquires-imap-specialist-goodserver.shtml


Contact Details: Synchronica plc
Mount Pleasant House
Lonsdale Gardens
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TN1 1NY
United Kingdom
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Fax: +44 1892 552 721
info@synchronica.com