Funambol has reportedly introduced the world's first open source mobile cloud sync solution for mobile Voice over Internet Protocol, or “VoiP,” which allows mVoIP users to sync contacts from a sources including mobile phones, e-mail systems, personal computers and social networks.

 

By leveraging the solution’s contact syncing ability, users are able to call more people and also increase mVoIP utilization. The solution is based on open source, and thus it can be fully customized.

 

Customers who use mVoIP can conduct Skype-like voice calls on cell phones using WiFi and other non-cellular networks. Funambol (News - Alert) officials said that most mVoIP services fail to sync contact info from cell phones or other places. In contrast, Funambol helps mVoIP to sync contacts from a variety of sources via the Internet cloud, and this automatically populates the user's mVoIP address book. If the contact data is updated anywhere, the changes propagate to the user's address book.

 

Funambol’s first open source mobile cloud sync solution for mVoIP also includes an AJAX portal. This portal keeps contact info in sync across a number of sources via the cloud making it convenient for users to use a Web browser to add, change or remove address book info.

 

Fabrizio Capobianco (News - Alert), Funambol CEO, said that many customers are mVoIP providers that sync user address books with e-mail systems and social networks. These customers picked Funambol because open source lets them fully customize the solution to support their needs and target devices.

 

Funambol is a provider of open source mobile cloud sync solutions. The company was in news earlier this week for announcing that their sales in the second quarter of 2009 grew exponentially.

 

In the past three months, Funambol acquired a number of major customers and forged important strategic partnerships. Fabrizio Capobianco, Funambol CEO, said this growth remarkable and illustrates how mobile cloud sync has become a major new category of wireless services, as well as the attraction of open source.

 

“To work with some of the largest mobile companies in the world to deliver services for hundreds of millions of users is a growing realization of our vision of innovative wireless services for the mass market,” Capobianco said in a statement.