Sync Your Email With Mobile Devices Using Packt's New Funambol Book

March 2010 | Networking & Telephony

Packt is pleased to announce Funambol Mobile Open Source, a new book that will help readers to provide push email capabilities and synchronization services for mobile devices and PC software using Funambol. Written by Stefano Fornari, this book describes how to use Funambol to perform mobile cloud sync for a number of devices. It is an easy reading for system administrators and developers who want to keep in sync enterprise data.

Funambol is a free and open source mobile synchronization server and a development platform for mobile applications. It provides push email address book, calendar data synchronization and device management for wireless devices, leveraging standard protocols such as SyncML.

Funambol Mobile Open Source will teach users to access their email, calendar, contacts and important notes a lot more easily and quickly using Funambol. They will be able to develop, deploy, and manage any mobile project. Additionally, this book also explores the wide range of possibilities of the Funambol platform beyond the immediate needs of personal data synchronization and mobile email.

Using this book, developers will learn to install the server on both Linux and Windows environment and start/stop Funambol services. It will help them to connect to the Data Synchronization Service using Funambol administration tool and synchronize all different devices with a central PIM database. Furthermore, this book will also teach users to access database on a separate machine and restrict access to specific users along with addition of new users.

Packed with lots of easy to follow examples, this practical guide is ideal for users who are looking forward to installing and getting started with Funambol. The book is out now and available from Packt. To read more about it, please visit:www.packtpub.com/funambol-mobile-open-source/book

Funambol Mobile Open Source