Microsoft buys MobiComp, Portuguese mobile sync firm

by Brad Linder Jun 26th 2008

Microsoft has announced plans to buy MobiComp, a Portuguese software company that develops applications for storing cellphone data online.

MobiComp's products allow you to perform over the air backups of your contacts, calendar, and other mobile data. The company's MobileKeeper Sharing & Communities software also lets you share and download content from social networks including Flickr and Hi5.

The acquisition is described as Microsoft's largest investment in Portugal. Nobody's saying exactly what Microsoft is planning to do with MobiComp's technology, but we'd say it's a safe bet that you could eventually see some sort of data backup/synchronization software for Windows Mobile devices, perhaps as part of the Windows Live suite of web-based services.

[via Electronista]

Tags: backup, cellphone, mobicomp, mobile, synchronization

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

BrookPT said 4:00PM on 6-26-2008

Damn, I just saw this on TV, 5 minutes ago! Portuguese TV, I mean :)
MobiComp is (and always was) really respected and it has a really intelligent and professional staff... It was a good move for MS to buy such small company, since it has a really great potential.

wow, this is still surprising.. I live like 15 away from their offices!

Roam-se de inveja, paneleiros de Lisboa lolol!

Greeting from Portugal.
lol!

TheAssailant6661 said 2:21PM on 6-29-2008

Ai fodas! Portugueses FTW!

Greetings from America.

Quikboy said 11:28PM on 6-26-2008

Sounds interesting, but doesn't Live Mesh already do this? The whole data back-up/synchronization thing?

TurboFool said 12:22PM on 6-27-2008

Sweet, that's good news. MobileMe's one of the few Apple products that I've been moderately impressed with in some time, and I'd like to see something similar for Windows Mobile and PCs. Maybe we'll get that now.

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