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Year 2004
April 30, 2004
IT Analysis
Smartner Duality and low hanging fruit
March 24, 2004
3G
Vodafone Aids Smartner's European Expansion
March 5, 2004
M2 Presswire "Smartner expands European operations and brings more experience into sales and management; New offices in Paris, Gothenburg and Madrid "
Smartner, the European leader in mobile email and office solutions, today announced further expansion into Europe and forming of Smartner offices to Paris France, Gothenburg Sweden and Madrid Spain. Thomas Chauchardhas been appointed as Executive Vice President Business Development to drive Smartner's European operations further.
Tietoviikko "Smartner laajentaa Euroopassa"
Digitoday.fi "Smartner kasvaa Ranskaan, Espanjaan ja Ruotsiin"
March, 2004
What to Buy for Business "CONSTANT E-ACCESS"
Smartner has launched Duality
Always-on Mail for the Xda II,
Qtec 2020 and other Microsoft
Windows Mobile 2003 based devices.
It provides a real-time link to
Outlook and Lotus Notes packages
via a PDA or other mobile wireless
device, allowing the user to control
desktop functions when away from
the office.
February 26, 2004
Geekzone "Handango, Smartner and Openbit launch always on e-mail for Windows Mobile Pocket PC"
Smartner announced the availability of Smartner Duality Professional, an Always-on Mail solution for individual users. Smartner Duality Professional is available by credit card purchase in most countries in the world, and for mobile subscribers of close to 70 operators in Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK, Australia, China, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore and Thailand.
February 12, 2004
msmobiles.com "Smartner introduces Always-on Mail for Xda II"
While Windows Mobile 2003 already features "email-push" technology, it is however based on sending SMS upon email arrrival, what makes it totally useless in most countries due to prohibitive SMS costs. It looks like Smartner has a solution that is more similar to the one from RIM (SMS-less)
January 27, 2004
Digitoday.fi "Smartnerilta suora sähköposti mobiililaitteeseen"
M2Presswire "Smartner introduces Always-on Mail for Xda II, Providing Windows Mobile 2003 users with real-time desktop syncronisation"
Smartner, the European leader in mobile email and office solutions, today announced the availability of Smartner Duality Always-on Mail for the Xda II, Qtek 2020 and other Microsoft Windows Mobile 2003 based devices. The software is available from leading operators and certified resellers across the UK and Europe.
January 20, 2004
NewsWireless.net "News - Control Outlook from your Blackberry, says O2 - without a Blackberry"
Individuals in Europe have ignored the Blackberry (mostly) because it was seen as a totally corporate tool - but phone carrier MMO2 is working on a £12 per month Blackberry messenger service for the non-corporate user. The only difference is - no Blackberry. Instead, you use the XDA2 pocket computer. What will RIM think?
The enabling technology is the remarkable (award-winning, even) Duality software, which readers will possibly remember was developed by Commtag - which was taken over by Finnish company Smartner last year.
January 9, 2004
Mobile "O2 Email"
Software company Smartner has
signed a deal with O2 to join its
"Accelerator Programme", enabling
mobile users to access desktop
functions out of the office.
January 8, 2004
New Media Age "O2 and Smartner provide mobile access to desktop"
O2 has partnered with the Finnish software firm Smartner
to offer mobile users access to their desktop functions
when on the move.
The Smartner Duality Always-on Mail software automatically
forwards emails and attachments to a mobile device, on
which users can view, edit, forward, file or delete them.
All actions are carried out in real time and instantly
replicated on the users computer, so that deleted emails
won't reappear on the user's desktop.
The software is designed for use with the O2-compatible
XDA device, which is the operator's first combined
PocketPc and GPRS device for the consumer market. The
Smartner contract was announced as part of O2's Accelerator
Programme in the UK, and will join the O2 incubator
process so the software can enter the market.
The Smartner service will retail at £12 a month for each
user, and will be targeted at mobile office workers.
Year 2003
December 17, 2003
Digitoday.fi "O2 valitsi Smartnerin kiihdytyskaistalle"
M2 Presswire "Smartner signs up to O2's Accelerator Programme"
Smartner, the European leader in mobile email and office solutions, is delighted to announce that they have been accepted on to O2's Accelerator Programme in the UK. The agreement with O2 means that Smartner's Duality Always-on Mail will enter the O2 "incubator process", enabling the product to be immediately sold by the O2 sales network.
December 4, 2003
Telecomworldwire "Smartphone e-mail software available now from Smartner"
Mobile e-mail and office solutions provider Smartner has launched its Smartner Duality mobile e-mail solution for Symbian OS smartphones. The new e-mail product can be installed on a smartphone to give the handset access to Microsoft Outlook and Lotus Notes. Also, the solution sends new e-mails direct to mobile users without any user interaction and provides them with control of their desktop functions while they are away from their PC.
December 3, 2003
Bios Online "Award Winning Smartner Duality now Available on Symbian OS"
Smartner, the European leader in mobile email and office solutions, today announced availability of its Smartner Duality mobile email solution for Symbian OS smartphones that are shipping in volume worldwide, and its membership of the Symbian Platinum Program. With this announcement Smartner further demonstrates its strategy of cross-platform support for popular mobile devices.
M2 Presswire "Smartner enhances smartphones with always-on email"
Tietokone "Viestit salattuna Symbian-laitteisiin"
Tietoviikko "Smartner välittää sähköpostit myös Symbianiin"
Digitoday.fi "Smartner tarttui Symbianin platinaan"
November, 2003
Business Info "Email on the move"
The first product to give mobile users always-on access to corporate email and personal information management (PIM) systems via any device has been launched by Smartner. Smartner Duality combines Smartner Office Extender technology with Duality email push technology. The combination allows users to view, edit, forward, file or delete email messages and attachments in real time, with all actions mirrored on their desktop.
Communicate
Smartner, a mobile email solution provider has been invited to join Microsoft's Mobility Partner Advisory Council. The Smartner Duality solution - which integrates Exchange server with Windows Mobile based devices - will be now actively promototed by the software giant.
October 24, 2003
The 451.com "Smartner joins Microsoft council, sets goals"
Smartner has joined Microsoft's
Mobility Partner Advisory Council.
It applauds the addition of cached MRP
in Exchange 2003, and notes that
Microsoft lacks the user experience
in this market that the council brings it.
Smartner says its target European audience
is 12 million workers checking email
remotely.
October 21, 2003
Computer Weekly "Is an e-mail in the handheld worth two in the pipeline?"
Clever gadgets are no good for keeping in touch with a mobile workforce unless you have clever software to make sure you can get the best out of them. Liz Warren reports on how a software publishing company got to grips with its handhelds using O2 XDA devices and Smartner Duality Always-On Mail.
August 27, 2003
The 451.com "Smartner seeks wireless email leadership in Europe"
Smartner's venture backers have given the wireless email company an additional EUR 5m to try and establish a leadership position in the European market. After the acquisiton of Commtag, Smartner has come up with a single solution portfolio package that will take the Duality brand. Its mission now is to build partner channels across Europe with operators and integrators. It believes wireless email can become a significant business.
August 8, 2003
Baskerville Mobile Media "Smartner gains on BlackBerry in Europe", "Intangible ROI on mobile e-mail causes problems"
There is growing acknowledgement of the value of mobile e-mail, but total cost of ownership might be a problem, rather than ROI. Smartner targets its solutions at SMEs through operators, in order to help reduce the upfront cost for SMEs.
May 22, 2003
PMN "Smartner gets EUR 5m funding"
Tietoviikko "Smartner sai viisi miljoonaa "
MCI / A Week in Wireless "Smartner gets EUR 5m funding"
Rubbing shoulders with the great and good this week:
Finnish mobile enterprise outfit and onetime MCI Industry Upstart Smartner, which has absorbed another former upstart, Commtag, and secured an extra E5m in VC funding as part of the same deal.
April 30 - May 8, 2003
Unstrung "Smartner Acquires Commtag"
Business Weekly "Finnish offer accepted to acquire Cambridge wireless specialist"
The Inquirer "Brit email firm sells itself to Finns"
Digitoday.fi "Smartner ostaa brittiläisen mobiiliyrityksen osakevaihdolla"
The Register "Finns swoop on Commtag"
Commtag, the always-on mobile email start-up, is to have a new owner. Step forward, Smartner Information Systems, of Finland, which is to wrap Commtag's Duality Always-On Mail technology into its mobile office suite, Office Extender.
February 27, 2003
The 451.com "Smartner at the crossroads - ponders next move"
Smartner and its investors are considering the next move to make. Meanwhile, Smartner has been embraced by IBM as a key partner in offering a turnkey systme for operators on top of IBM hardware and software.
February 2003
eWEEK "Girding the Mobile Workforce"
eWEEK "High-Speed Wireless Nets Spawn Applications"
MyTech "3GSM: Smartner porta l'ufficio sul cellulare"
Digitoday.fi "Smartnerilta mobiilitoimistoratkaisu operaattoreille - IBM:n teknologiaa"
ITviikko "Smartner päivitti etätoimistoaan"
Smartner presented Office Extender 3.0 and a hosted offering with IBM at 3GSM World Congress. The solutions make working on the road more closely resemble working at a desk.
January, 2003
Professional Manager "In Synch"
Smartner's new application enables users working away from their workplace to remain fully synchronised with their server-based applications.
Year 2002
December, 2002
Computer Reseller News "Fast-moving Finn Client"
November, 2002
Mobile Internet "Business-solutions vendor mulls expansion outside Europe"
Finnish vendor Smartner has signed up several customers in Scandinavia and other parts of Europe for its Office Extender product. Office Extender is a different kind of product from the BlackBerrys, Palms and Pocket PCs of the mobile world.
October 25, 2002
Digitoday.fi "Smartnerilta etätoimisto liikematkaajille"
Corporate IT Update, Worldwide Computer Product News, Telecomworldwire "Smartner enhances Office Extender product"
October 23, 2002 (Issue 45)
Technology Finance "Smartner seeks expansion funds or partners"
Mobile office solutions provider Smartner is considering
raising more funding or forming a partnership to accelerate expansion into the US and Asia. Smartner became profitable last quarter. Co-founder Jussi Raisanen believes the firm’s success is partly due to finding the right focus early on.
September, 2002
Mobile Europe “Big bucks beckon”
Enterprises are willing to invest in IT mobility. According to Smartner and IBM, a ‘multi-channel’ approach to enterprise mobility, using different front-end devices to access different back-office systems via ‘smart’ middleware, offers a way around restrictions set by mobile devices.
ComputerScope “Vodafone teams with IBM for mobile e-mail”
Vodafone’s Irish customers will be able to view their enterprise e-mail and calendar systems from a mobile phone or handheld device with a new service provided by IBM and Smartner.
August, 2002
Mobile Communications International "The Company Line"
Corporate customers are willing to spend more than consumers and this could be the foundation of the ARPU boost for which operators are increasingly desperate. However, it will not be a simple market for them to address.
CA Magazine “Wireless nirvana just a false dawn”
‘Anytime anywhere’ wireless access to e.g. email creates massive opportunities for taking costs out of many business processes, but are companies really making the most of this? Smartner’s CEO Robert Rasmus says that clients worry about making a wrong decision.
August 13, 2002
Netimperative "Smartner signs mobile office deal with IBM, Vodafone
Mobile Commerce World ("IBM for mobile email")
Dow Jones Business News ("Vodafone Completes Three-way Data Service Partnership")
August 12, 2002
Total Telecom "Vodafone Ireland picks IBM, Smartner for mobile e-mail"
EuropeMedia "IBM and Smartner to provide Vodafone with mobile e-mail data service"
Unstrung "Vodafone, IBM Email Eire"
Business Plus "IBM Ireland Wins Vodafone Contract"
Tietoviikko "Smartnerin mobiilipalvelu Vodafonelle"
digitoday.fi "Smartnerilta langaton toimistosovellus Vodafonelle Irlantiin")
ITviikko "Smartner hakee kasvua Vodafone-kaupoilla"
The Smartner/IBM mobile e-mail solution to Vodafone is illustrated in several newsletters and magazines.
August 9, 2002
ElectricNews.net "Vodafone to launch BlackBerry competitor
")
Vodafone Ireland will launch a device-independent e-mail service for corporate clients, in a move that could make users think twice about buying a BlackBerry. The solution is developed by Smartner.
August 8, 2002
Forbes "Forbes Focus: Helsinki"
According to Forbes, Smartner founders Jussi Räisänen and Mika Uusitalo are people to watch in Helsinki.
June, 2002
Mobile Europe "Business market take-off"
The lucrative business user market is now set to take off. The Smartner solution is aimed at addressing the barriers to entry into the mobile data market for both the enterprise and the mobile operator.
June, 2002
Mobile Choice "Smart Talk"
Good news for business users: Smartner offers a solution that lets mobile workers access vital office applications such as email or calendar anytime and anywhere.
May 16, 2002
New Media Age "Smartner Information Systems secures European contract"
Smartner has sealed contracts with Swisscom Mobile and Blu Telecomunicazione.
May 9, 2002
The451.com "Your desk in your pocket - sound familiar?"
Smartner steps up for the second go-around at the mobile office, says operators are now ready to try again - this time with more developed GPRS networks and more robust services.
Billing Alert "Road Warrior’ solutions for SMEs"
Smartner launches business mobility solutions to operators across Europe. The company has recently announced deals with Swisscom Mobile and BLU Telecomunicazione.
April 18, 2002
ITviikko "Smartnerilta mobiilisovellus sveitsiläisoperaattorille"
The Swiss operator Swisscom Mobile will offer its enterprise customers a mobile office solution, which is developed by Smartner Information Systems Ltd.
March 1, 2002
Réseaux & Télécoms "Tout pour le Mobile")
Helsinki could be called the Silicon Valley of mobile communications. One of the Helsinki-based mobile technology companies is Smartner that develops mobile email and calendar solutions.
MikroPC "Sähköposti matkan varrelle"
Smartner is the provider of Radiolinja Toimistoratkaisu and dna Työpöytä mobile office services.
February 25, 2002
Nordic Wireless Watch "Smartner's mobile office passes 3G test"
The new edition of Office Extender provides a secure turnkey mobile access to their enterprise systems through an operator-hosted service.
Year 2001
December 21, 2001
Bisnes.fi "Kuumimmat startupit"
Smartner is listed among 50 hottest start-up companies in Finland.
October 19, 2001
Smau01 "Prodotti e Novita"
Smartner Office Extender is a new product launched at Smau01 exhibition in Italy.
September 26, 2001
Digitoday.fi "Radiolinjan gprs tarjoaa myös toimistoratkaisun - Smartner kumppani"
Verkkouutiset "Radiolinjan GPRS-palvelut markkinoille"
Radiolinja launched its GPRS network together with a mobile office solution that is delivered by Smartner.
September 10, 2001
Tornado Insider "Remote Financing for Smartner"
Smartner's CEO Robert Rasmus was interviewed to Tornado Insider about Smartner's second financing round.
September 5-12, 2001
The Deal "Dealflow: Smartner Information Systems"
Internet VC Watch "Smartner Information Systems Receives $1.1M"
Bisnes.fi "Suomalaiset mobiilifirmat Fastrax ja Smartner Information Systems onnistuivat rahoituksen keräämisessä"
ITviikko "Smartnerille vajaa kahdeksan miljoonaa riskirahaa"
IT Provider, Eqvitec Partners and Sitra have participated in Smartner's second financing round. This is the first investment of the Swedish IT Provider into Finland.
August 30, 2001
ITviikko "Kasvuyritykset palkkaavat varovaisesti - jos palkkaavat"
Start-up companies in Finland recruit people carefully nowadays. Smartner hasn't yet established any offices abroad, and is selective when employing new staff.
August 21, 2001
Sharecast.com "Finns do the business with mobile intranets"
Smartner is persuading operators such as Vodafone and BT to follow several Scandinavian operators' lead and start offering companies access to corporate intranets via mobile networks.
July 17, 2001
Etmag.com "Smartner Database Extender Enables Mobile Access to Company Databases"
Smartner launches a new mobile solution to provide mobile workforce with a way to search and update data in enterprise information systems.
July 4, 2001
Individual.com "GSA's new Ventures Program catches market attention"
GSA - the Global mobile Suppliers Association - announces a rapidly growing membership for its New Ventures Program. Smartner is a member of the program, and will be at the GSA stand at Mobile Internet 2001.
June 26, 2001
Kauppalehti "Tietokannat
matkapuhelimeen"
Smartner has released a mobile application
for companies to access their databases
using WAP or SMS enabled mobile phones
as well as through PDA devices and a web
interface.
June 6, 2001
The Internet Business Journal "CEO Interviews"
Smartner Vice President Jussi Räisänen was interviewed to the Internet Business Journal about Smartner's offering and business position in the mobile solutions market.
June 5, 2001
Kauppalehti "Norokorpi
Smartneriin
leipiin"
May 2001
bisnes.fi "Bisnesenkelit"
Business angel Ralf Saxén was the first
external financier who invested in Smartner
in the winter of 1999. At the moment,
he is Smartner's Chairman of the Board.
May 10, 2001
ITviikko "Kokemustaan
jakava seniori"
May 4, 2001
Talouselämä "Karkkilan
mökkiläinen tuntee Lontoon"
April 30, 2001
Aamulehti
"Ohjelmistoviejä toteutti kaksivaiheisen
uranvaihdoksen")
Jukka Norokorpi, the new leader of Smartner's
internationalization, has gained valuable
experience working in various international
positions in computer and software businesses.
April 24, 2001
Taloussanomat "Jukka
Norokorpi Smartnerin kv-toimintojen johtajaksi"
Jukka Norokorpi joined Smartner as Senior
Vice President of International Operations.
April 2001
Helsingin Ekonomit "Smartner
yhdistää langattomat viestintävälineet
ja yritysten tietojärjestelmät"
International business professionals (KV-Ekonomit)
on a visit at Smartner.
March 26, 2001
WOW! Wireless "Smartner demonstrates Lotus-enhanced Extender"
Smartner demonstrated a new feature in Smartner Office Extender, which allows mobile access to the enterprise's own Lotus Domino server with mobile phones.
February 26, 2001
Tekniikan Näköalat "Työkaluja
langattomien palveluiden rakentamiseen"
Smartner's mobile platform technology
development funded by Tekes - the National
Technology Agengy of Finland.
February 23, 2001
Tietoviikko "Kuka
mitä häh?"
Smartner named as one of the numerous
new challengers on the wireless service
market.
February 22, 2001
MikroPC "Internet-sähköposti
kännykkään"
Smartner's applications presented in an
article on wireless email services.
February 15, 2001
ITviikko
"Mobiilipalvelualustojen
markkinat murrosiässä"
Competition between Finnish mobile software
companies is finding its form on the growing
market. Smartner's Robert Rasmus has a
strong belief in the potential of business
market and in preference of operators
as service providers.
"Järjestelmämyyjä
siirtyi mobiiliin"
Veli Holm faces new challenges as the
new director of Smartner Nordic sales.
February 1, 2001
ITviikko
"DNA
vokottelee tehokäyttäjiä"
A new Finnish mobile operator DNA Finland
offers its customers a WAP email and calendar
service "dna Työpöytä" delivered by Smartner.
"Smartner
kehitti operaattoriratkaisun mobiilipalveluihin"
Smartner releases a product family with
which telecom operators and wireless ASPs
can launch wireless services for their
enterprise customers.
January 17, 2001
Taloussanomat
"Kusti
p@lkee"
SMS is expected to be the leading mobile
e-mail technology for a few more years.
According to a research conducted by Smartner
and Helsinki University of Technology,
Finnish companies prefer SMS technology
in wireless e-mail services.
"Operaattori
ottaa omansa"
A comparison of the wireless e-mail solutions
of different providers.
"Postia
palomuurin takaa", "Halpaa
turvattomuutta, kallista turvallisuutta"
An article on the security aspect of different
wireless e-mail solutions. MoMail presented
as a solution with high security for a
reasonable price.
January
11, 2001
Tietoviikko
"Upside odottaa suuria suomalaisilta"
Upside praises young Finnish technology
visionaries. Bill Robinson, the writer of
the article, views Smartner as start-up
company with a highly promising future.
January 2001
MikroPC
"Sähköposti karvalakkikännykkään"
Smartner MoMail introduced as a new software
product in the magazine's "New Products"
-pages.
January 2001
bisnes.fi
“50 kuumaa kasvuyritystä”
Smartner listed among 50 highly promising
high-tech companies.
January 2, 2001
Upside
”Northern Lights Illuminate Finnish Tech”
In an article on Nordic technology entrepreneurs,
Smartner is regarded as “perhaps the most
compelling of all the businesses that Upside
saw in Helsinki”.
Year 2000
December 2000
Fakta ”Vuosi
parissa kuukaudessa”
Smartner continues to grow with fast speed
in order to fulfill the needs of its customers.
December 2000
Modultek
BULLETIN 3/2000 “Smart Partnership”
Collaboration between Smartner’s Airis and
Modultek’s Aton promises much for the future.
December, 2000
Taloussanomat
“MoMail tuo sähköpostit yrityksen gsm-puhelimiin”
WOW!/Tietotekniikka
“Smartnerin MoMaililla yrityssähköpostia
mobiilisti”
Smartner has created a software product,
MoMail, which enables employees to read,
send and reply to e-mails with a regular
GSM phone.
November 30, 2000
ITviikko
“Smartner suuntaa mobiilialustansa operaattoreille”
Smartner believes to have unique expertise
to bring success in the domestic markets
of mobile business services.
September 29, 2000
CIMdata
cPDm Late Breaking News "Modultek announces
Aton to include mobile communication services
powered by Smartner Ltd."
September 18, 2000
Aamulehti
”IT-yhtiöt elävät normaalia pikkufirman
arkea”
The road to success requires conscientious
work from young IT companies.
September 17, 2000
Helsingin Sanomat "Lupaukset versoavat
kasvualoilla"
Smartner listed among promising start-up
companies.
September 15, 2000
Talouselämä "Mobiili ahmii riskirahaa"
IT companies rule in the battle for venture
capital. Smartner mentioned in the list
of companies funded by venture capital companies
in year 2000.
August 31, 2000
ITviikko "3G-sovellusten testaajia on
kohta kilpailuksi asti"
Ericsson established a MAI (Mobile Application
Initiative) test-laboratory for 3G solutions
in Finland. Smartner listed among the Finnish
MAI members.
August 25, 2000
Kauppalehti
"Suoraselkäisen nöyriä insinöörejä"
Engineers head to do business. Smartner
presented as a company whose founders have
studied at the Helsinki University of Technology.
July 20, 2000
ITviikko
Online "Smartnerilta laiteriippumaton mobiilisovellusalusta"
Smartner releases a wireless application
platform which enables the creation of SMS
and WAP interphases, among others, to existing
enterprise information systems.
June 22, 2000
Tietoviikko
"Mobiilifirma löysi bisnesenkeleitä"
Equity investors back Smartner on its way.
June 4, 2000
ITviikko
"Smartner kehittää laiteriippumatonta langattomuutta"
Smartner creates device-independent technology
solutions for corporate use.
February 2000
bisnes.fi
"Menetetty kesä"
The founders of Smartner have also musical
talent…
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