Today, Starfish Software Inc., a leading supplier of complete customized infrastructure and synchronization solutions for the wireless Internet, announced that Yahoo! Inc. (Nasdaq:YHOO) and Excite@Home are offering people who use Yahoo!(R) Address Book (http://address.yahoo.com) and Excite Planner (http://www.excite.com) free TrueSync(R) multi-point synchronization software for Ericsson (NYSE:ERICY), Motorola (NYSE:MOT) and Nokia (NYSE:NOK) wireless phones. With a few clicks, consumers who use Yahoo! Address Book and Excite Planner can now easily synchronize names and phone numbers with their favorite wireless phones, desktop organizers such as Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Notes, Saleslogix ACT!, and devices including Palm-based and Windows CE devices, giving millions of people real-time access to their information everywhere.
"Working closely with established global companies like Yahoo! and Excite@Home to deploy concrete infrastructure solutions and synchronization solutions for Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia demonstrates Starfish's leadership in the wireless market," said Philippe Kahn, CEO of Starfish Software. "With TrueSync now supporting the majority of the world's leading wireless phones in addition to the existing portfolio of TrueSync powered solutions, TrueSync is clearly the de facto standard in personal information synchronization."
TrueSync for Yahoo! Address Book
By using TrueSync for Yahoo!, people who use Yahoo! Address Book can now synchronize their contact information with some of the most popular wireless phones worldwide. Yahoo! Address Book is part of Yahoo!'s comprehensive suite of communications services that give users everything they need in a centralized online location to communicate and organize their lives via the Web.
"With TrueSync for Wireless Phones, our users can quickly synchronize their phones with their Yahoo! Address Book. This is a key ingredient in giving people who use our service the easiest means possible to access their Yahoo! information anywhere, anytime using any device," said Thad White, senior producer for Yahoo! Address Book.
TrueSync for Excite Planner
Also available to the award-winning Excite Planner, powered by Starfish's TrueSync Infrastructure, this new service gives users instant access to their critical information, including calendar, contacts, to-do's, notes and preferences, from any Internet browser.
"In offering TrueSync for Wireless Phones to Excite Planner users, we are providing our users with another way to access their Excite Planner through wireless phones," said Rosalina Kallingal, product manager Excite Planner.
The free download of TrueSync for Wireless Phones at http://address.yahoo.com and http://www.planner.excite.com provides users with TrueSync address book synchronization for Ericsson LX series phones, Motorola CDMA phones, some StarTAC and V-series phones, Nokia 5100 and 6100 series phones and many more. Now wireless phones from the top phone manufacturers in the world have the ability to synchronize with multiple clients in the TrueSync universe of powered applications, devices and services.
Powering millions of the world's most popular devices, TrueSync's leading multi-point synchronization solution, provides a fast, easy way for users to synchronize information among all supported wireless phones, devices and desktop organizers with a single click including Palm-based devices, Windows CE devices, REX(TM), REX PRO(TM), the new Motorola StarTAC(R) clipOn Organizer, Motorola paging devices, Microsoft(TM) Outlook(TM), Lotus Organize(TM), Lotus Notes(TM), ACT!(TM), Sidekick(R), Schedule+ and TrueSync Desktop and now all data-enabled Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia phones. Only TrueSync gives users the capability to download free updates for future phones, devices and other popular applications. Providing TrueSync for Wireless Phones software to Yahoo! Address book users and Excite Planner users illustrates Starfish's solid commitment to giving users unmatched mobile solutions for on-the-go convenience.
TrueSync for Wireless Phones Availability
For a complete list of wireless phones and to download TrueSync for Wireless Phones software for free, visit http://address.yahoo.com and http://www.excite.com.
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