Google launches new technology for synching contacts and calendars
Posted on February 9, 2009, under Mobile World News.
Google launches technology for automatically synching contacts and calendars with iPhones and Windows Mobile devices. Google announced that they’ve started beta testing of its new Google Sync cloud-based synchronization services meant to link users’ iPhone and Windows Mobile calendars and contacts with their Google accounts and automatically keep them in sync. Also on Monday, Microsoft announced that Google Sync relies on its own Exchange ActiveSync technology, which it has licensed to Google.
“Earlier today Google announced Google Sync, which is made possible by a patent license they obtained from Microsoft covering Google’s implementation of the Microsoft Exchange ActiveSync protocol on Google servers,”. Microsoft also said it has already licensed the patent to “Apple, Nokia, Palm, Samsung, and Sony Ericsson.” Google Sync will support syncing in both directions via push technology, freeing users from having to remember to do it manually.
“For iPhone and Windows Mobile devices, Google Sync allows you to get your Gmail Contacts and Google Calendar events to your phone. Once you set up Sync on your phone, it will automatically begin synchronizing your address book and calendar in the background, over-the-air, so you can attend to other tasks,” according a posting on the Google Mobile Blog on Monday.