Barlow Group

The Red Herring Top 100 North America, awarded by Red Herring Magazine, recognizes new and promising privately-owned companies in North America that play a leading role in innovation and technology. This year, two Barlow Group clients are named—Funambol and Groove Mobile.

Go to Red Herring for the complete list of Winners.

About Funambol
Funambol is the mobile open source company. Funambol's Mobile Application Server offers "push" email, synchronization of contacts and calendars, and management facilities for mobile devices. Funambol (formerly known as Sync4j) is an open source development platform for mobile applications that has been downloaded more than any other wireless middleware product – 500,000 times. The commercial version has been deployed at wireless carriers, Fortune 100 enterprises, hardware OEMs/ODMs and ISVs including customers such as Computer Associates. Funambol is headquartered in Redwood City, California with a development center in Italy. See www.funambol.com.

About Groove Mobile
Groove Mobile is the world's leading mobile music service. Groove Mobile's Complete Music Gateway includes Full Track Mobile Downloads, Peer-to-Peer Sharing and Personalized Music Recommendations, in addition to providing Personalized and Programmed Streaming Radio, Music Subscriptions, and more. Last year, Groove Mobile powered the #1 rated mobile music service in the UK, and the first mobile music service in the US, Sprint’s Music Store. Groove Mobile launched the world's first secure peer-to-peer distribution in the mobile space, with its pioneering TELL-A-FRIEND feature. Groove Mobile's direct download service is available in the US, Canada, Europe, and Australasia and provides access to music from EMI, Warner Music International, V2, and Beggars Group, Digital Rights Management and the Orchard libraries. See www.groovemobile.com.

*Information obtained from www.redherring.com, www.funambol.com and www.groovemobile.com.