Motorola buys Good Technology — MobileMonday Global: Industry News

^{Mobile mail becomes a nuclear service} Motorola buys Good Technology

12 Nov 2006 at 15:30 GMT Timo Poropudas

The importance mobile push mail keeps growing. Major mobile players are staking their claims in this area. The latest claim was filed Motorola. The second largest mobile phone manufacturer acquired privately held Good Technology, a provider of wireless e-mail service. Nokia has been very big on mobile email licensing or supporting all major push mail providers and acquiring Intellitech, a major provider of IP-based mail technology. The leader in the pack has so far been Research in Motion (RIM) the maker of BlackBerry handheld data devices. Seven and Visto are the two largest independent provider of push mail technology. Seven claims more than one hundred operator customers. Microsoft claims to have a large share on real corporate mobile mail market. It likes to emphasize the natural integration between Exchange severs and Widows Mobile clients. Motorola and Good Technology did not reveal the terms of the deal. It’s expected to close early in 2007, according to a statement that the companies issued Friday. They have worked together under a partnership that allowed corporate users of Santa Clara, California-based Good Technology’s service to access their e-mail remotely using one of Motorola’s newest mobile devices, the Q. More than 12,000 companies use Good Technology’s service, the two companies said in a statement.