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Weblicon enables data exchange over the air
Technology supplier first to offer a SyncML-standard synchronisation in Europe/ two-year development lead
Berlin, 13th October 2001 - Berlin / Munich. - The Berlin Weblicon Technologies AG, a shareholding of the PEPPERMINT. Financial Partners is the first technology supplier to enable ‘over the air’ synchronization of data for mobile terminal devices. This makes the wireless data exchange between the online organizer and the mobile terminal devices possible for the first time. At the SYSTEMS 2001 - Hall B4, Booth B4.100-A4, the technology supplier is presenting the unique software based on the international SyncML standard. This server technology of the future is integrated seamlessly into the Online Organizer of Weblicon. Thus, the user may synchronize the personal data from the Online Organizer with the Palm PDA, with MS Outlook or Outlook Express and all new types of devices.
“The SyncML-standard is the Esperanto language of the synchronizing world. For the first time, all terminal devices are able to communicate with one another. This will usher in the breakthrough for the mobile world!” Carsten Schulte, CTO of Weblicon Technologies, is sure. His development team of 15 has worked on the implementation of the new international SyncML standard for nine months and thus decided the race for the first European SyncML-server. The technology supplier Weblicon has thus got a two-year development lead over the other suppliers of mobile personal information managers.
Ingeborg Neumann, Managing Partner of the PEPPERMINT. Financial Partners said, “With this new development, Weblicon has once more confirmed our strategy of investing in future industries such as the mobile Internet. We have remained true to our principle once again when investing in the innovative Weblicon company: venture capital plus partnership. And this successfully – as one can see.”
The synchronization software for mobile terminal devices developed by Weblicon – www.weblicon.net - is the first such system introduced in Europe that corresponds completely with the international SyncML-standard and is integrated into the personal information manager (PIM). The SyncML-protocol is based on XML-transactions between the client and the server and enables the exchange of appointments, addresses and tasks between the different systems. For the first time, devices of different manufacturers are able to exchange data with one another.
The SyncML-initiative has won strong partners through the support of Ericsson, IBM, Lotus, Matsushita, Motorola, Nokia, Openwave and Symbian. Nokia and Ericsson are already delivering the first mobile devices compatible with this new standard and others have announced further compatible devices to follow. The data synchronization on the desktop computer, online organizer and the mobile terminal device is performed seamlessly by a single system and is also possible over the air through a mobile phone for the first time. Licensees are thus furnished with a flexible complete solution from one source and are independent of further manufacturers.
CTO Carsten Brinkschulte believes there is no way around mobile applications in the future of communication: “More and more applications are being shifted from the desktop to online systems. The availability of suitable mobile terminal devices is a decisive factor for the acceptance of these ‘weblications’ amongst the users”, said the co-founder of Weblicon Technologies AG. “The architecture developed by us is suitable for all future terminal devices as the SyncML-standard provides for automatic compatibility.”
Company brief:
weblicon technologies AG – founded by today’s managing directors Carsten Brinkschulte and Peter Haas – develop and license web-based applications (Weblications) for portals, ISPs, ASPs and telcos. These personal-information-management products are integrated seamlessly into existing networks of servers, applications and databases. The Online Organizer is one of the most successful products and is being used, for instance, by E-Plus and the Dutch KPN Mobile.
For further information:
Weblicon Technologies AG Carsten Brinkschulte
Pressestelle 030-726269-113
Torstraße 6 030-72 62 69-100
10119 Berlin eMail: info@weblicon.net
PEPPERMINT. Financial Partners Nicole B. Meissner
Unternehmenskommunikation Tel.: 030-20 94 57 41
Friedrichstr. 70/ Quartier 205 Fax: 030-20 94 90 41
10117 Berlin eMail: meissner@weblicon.net
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