REDWOOD CITY, California, February 13 /PRNewswire/ --

- Company Wins Mobile Monday Peer Award for Innovative Mobile Email 
Solution & Market Traction

Funambol, the leading provider of Mobile 2.0 messaging software powered
by open source, today announced it won the highest ranked Expert Jury Award
from the Mobile Monday Peer Awards 2008 given out in conjunction with 3GSM
Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Feb. 11-14. The awards were determined as
part of an evaluation and selection process that was conducted during the
first day of this week's conference.

Funambol was chosen by an expert jury representing a global cross-section
of leading mobile operators, search engines, online portals and wireless
startups. Funambol presented its ad-funded mobile email solution and
discussed its recent market traction of being deployed commercially at
customers with a combined subscriber count of over 300 million users.

"With all the buzz about BlackBerry outages, iPhones, Android and
smartphones, it's easy to forget that less that 2% of the world's 3.3 billion
mobile phone users get email on their phone," said Fabrizio Capobianco, CEO
of Funambol. "I think the expert jury was impressed by both our unique open
source model and our business model that together enable mobile email and
content to be delivered to the other 98% of mobile users. We are honored to
be considered as amongst the best-of-the-best mobile growth companies by our
peers."

Funambol this week is demonstrating its award-winning ad-funded open
source mobile email solution at Mobile World Congress at stand #1J46 in
Hall 1.

Funambol last week announced a partnership with Amobee Media Systems, the
world leader in advertising solutions for mobile operators, to provide the
first ad-funded open mobile email solution for the mass market. The company
further announced that it has gained significant market traction, signing up
new customers that included one of the top three online portals in the world,
two of the top five device manufacturers and a large U.S. wireless operator.
These new customers were the basis for the company's most successful quarter
on record, indicating that its open source approach is accelerating the
adoption of mobile email for the mass market.

About Funambol

Funambol provides mobile 2.0 messaging software powered by open source.
The company is the leading provider of open source push email and PIM sync
solutions for the mass market. Funambol open source has been downloaded
2,000,000 times by tens of thousands of developers and users in 200
countries. The commercial version of Funambol has been deployed at service
providers, mobile operators, portals, device manufacturers and ISVs including
customers such as 1&1, Earthlink and CA, Inc. (formerly Computer Associates).
Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, CA with an R&D center in Italy.
See http://www.funambol.com.

Media Contact
    Shelly Milam for Funambol
    Page One PR
    +1-415-875-7491
    shelly@pageonepr.com



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