Gtone Episode 26 - Open Source Mobility

While the Apple iPhone Train continues to capture the imagination
of the consumer smartphone market, there are a number of
companies, such as Blackberry, Microsoft, and Palm battling it out
in the business smartphone market. What is less well known is
that there is an Open Source Mobility platform that is making waves
in Europe. Funambol is a company and an open source community
dedicated to making further mobile device interoperability progress
through support of open standards such as SyncML.
 
Fabrizio Capobianco, a serial entrepreneur and veteran executive at
Reuters and Tibco, is CEO of Funambol. He founded the first
Italian Web company, Internet Graffiti, in 1994. He also founded
Stigma Online, developer of an information portal product
with customers that included Kraft, Novartis, Italian Broadcasting
Television and the Italian Stock Exchange. Capobianco has taught
courses on wireless and mBusiness strategies at the University of
Pavia in Italy, where he holds a Ph.D. in computer science with a
focus on usability. Fabrizio was recognized in 2007 as a top "40
under 40" leader by American Venture Magazine and by the readers
of Mobile Village for being a consumer email visionary.
 
This weeks song is “Telephone Line� by Robyn Tymm from the
United Kingdom.  This interview is courtesy of IT Conversations.
 
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