“There are significant challenges in mobile calendaring today,” said Dave Thewlis, CalConnect’s Executive Director. “The synchronisation protocols used to ‘sync’ mobile device data are not sensitive to the validity of the data, only the data were transmitted successfully. As a result, regular synchronisation testing cannot detect or resolve application-level errors. CalConnect’s Mobile Calendar Interoperability Test Suite has been developed to simplify testing of the real calendar data, and the capabilities of different mobile devices. It will test what calendaring data the mobile devices receive and deliver data to the user.”

As a key member of the CalConnect Consortium, Kerio leads the global SMB market with its CalDAV implementation in Kerio MailServer, a cross-platform email and collaboration server. For more information, please visit: www.kerio.com/kms.

Participation is open to non-members as well as members of CalConnect. To register for the interoperability testing event, please contact Dave Thewlis (dave.thewlis@calconnect.org) or Chris Dudding (chris.dudding@symbian.com).

CalConnect will also hold a regular (non-mobile) interoperability test event as an adjunct to its Roundtable members’ meeting on October 6-10, 2008 at Yahoo! in Sunnyvale, California. Non-members wishing to participate or observe should contact Dave Thewlis. More details on the event can be found at the CalConnect website beginning in early August.

The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (www.calconnect.org)
The Calendaring and Scheduling Consortium (CalConnect) is a partnership among vendors, developers, and customers to advance calendaring and scheduling standards and implementations. The mission is to provide mechanisms to allow calendaring and scheduling methodologies to interoperate, and to promote broad understanding of these methodologies so that calendaring and scheduling tools and applications can enter the mainstream of computing. The Consortium develops recommendations for improvement and extension of relevant standards, develops requirements and use cases for calendaring and scheduling specifications, conducts interoperability testing for calendaring and scheduling implementations, and promotes calendaring and scheduling. Organisational members are Apple, Carnegie Mellon, Dartmouth, Duke University, Eventful, Fresno State, Google, IBM, Kerio Technologies, MailSafe, Marware, Microsoft, Mirapoint, MIT, Mozilla Foundation, New York University, Open Source Applications Foundation, Oracle, PeopleCube, Princeton University, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Scalix, Sony Ericsson, Stanford University, Stockholm University, Sun Microsystems, Symbian, Synchronica, TimeBridge, Trumba, UC Berkeley, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, University of Washington, University of Wisconsin, Yahoo! Inc., Zimbra.

Kerio Technologies, Inc. (www.kerio.com)
Innovative in Internet security since 1997, Kerio Technologies, Inc. provides Internet messaging and firewall software for small-to-medium sized businesses and organisations worldwide. Kerio is headquartered in San Jose, California, and has offices in Great Britain, the Czech Republic and Russia. Kerio is a member of CalConnect, a calendaring and scheduling consortium, and a premier member of the Apple Developer Connection. The company has more than500 business partners in 82 countries. Technology partners include McAfee, Inc. (NYSE: MFE), IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM), and Notify Technology Corporation (OTCBB: NTFY). For more information, please visit www.kerio.com.

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