White Paper W950
Preliminary version - PA4
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Synchronisation and data transfer
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gives users access to their most important data |
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anywhere and anytime. The information is kept |
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updated by synchronizing it with the information at |
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the office or at home. The growing use of |
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synchronization capability, Sony Ericsson realizes |
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that interoperability of remote synchronization is of |
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Starfish Software, founded the SyncML initiative in |
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34 | June 2006 |