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Open Source Push Email available also for Pocket PC February 08, 2006 [Pocket PC phone] | By Edward J. R. Although Microsoft employees are denying it: facts speak for themselves and it looks like Microsoft Direct Push technology is still being delayed: no Windows Mobile phone on the market offers it and no ROM upgrade with it is available yet... and the reasons of the delay are unknown: legal problems of Microsoft being sued by Visto for patent violation? ... or maybe slowness of hardware manufacturers? ... so in meantime, you can consider a totally free push email solution, that doesn't require you to have Microsoft Exchange and you don't have to pay monthly fees for usage of RIM BlackBerry middleware... It's simple: install open source software on your server (including Apache Tomcat and some Java applications), install a client in the Pocket PC phone: 
... and then enter the server data into the Pocket PC application: 
... and then specify what things you want to synchronize: 
... and you can have push email (and/or push of other things like: contacts, calendar events, tasks, files and notes) without Microsoft Exchange and without RIM BlackBerrry! Funambol Project (for merly known as Sync4j) What is Funambol? Funambol is an open source mobile application server that provides push email, address book and calendar (PIM) data synchronization, application provisioning, and device management for wireless devices and PCs, leveraging standard protocols. For users, this means Blackberry-like capabilities on commodity handsets. To learn more or to download a client version for Pocket PC click here. Please note: the installation consists also of Visual Basic runtime setup and you must install to main memory, not to SD card, because otherwise the Visual Basic runtime is not recognized...  Post your comment (free registration is required to post, but if you register you can edit your posts later) [ 4 Comments ]
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