Good Technology
Encyclopedia
Good Technology is a company providing Push e-mail
and mobile device management
and security products for mobile phones.
attachment to the Handspring Visor under the brand of SpringThings. It later offered its own device to provide wireless email access to corporate users. The company markets its Good Mobile Messaging software and service, formerly known as GoodLink, for synchronizing corporate email and PIM data on a variety of devices, as well as a variety of other mobile management, security and access products targeted at the mobile enterprise worker.
On November 10, 2006, Motorola
acquired the then privately held company. On February 23, 2009, Motorola announced that it has agreed to sell Good Technology to rival push email provider, Visto
. During CTIA Wireless 2009, Visto announced that it had renamed itself Good Technology effectively taking the name of the former independent company. On May 27, 2009 Good Technology acquired Intercasting Corporation to satisfy customers’ demand for social networking capabilities. On December 7, 2009 Good Technology announced its support of iPhone and Android devices.
products:
Push e-mail
Push email is used to describe email systems that provide an always-on capability, in which new email is actively transferred as it arrives by the mail delivery agent to the mail user agent , also called the email client...
and mobile device management
Mobile device management
Mobile Device Management software secures, monitors, manages and supports mobile devices deployed across mobile operators, service providers and enterprises...
and security products for mobile phones.
History
The company started out building an MP3MP3
MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III, more commonly referred to as MP3, is a patented digital audio encoding format using a form of lossy data compression...
attachment to the Handspring Visor under the brand of SpringThings. It later offered its own device to provide wireless email access to corporate users. The company markets its Good Mobile Messaging software and service, formerly known as GoodLink, for synchronizing corporate email and PIM data on a variety of devices, as well as a variety of other mobile management, security and access products targeted at the mobile enterprise worker.
On November 10, 2006, Motorola
Motorola
Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...
acquired the then privately held company. On February 23, 2009, Motorola announced that it has agreed to sell Good Technology to rival push email provider, Visto
Visto
Visto was a private US company located in Redwood Shores, CA. Visto sold Push e-mail products for mobile phones. The company acquired Good Technology in 2009 and renamed itself for the acquired company.- Visto the Company :...
. During CTIA Wireless 2009, Visto announced that it had renamed itself Good Technology effectively taking the name of the former independent company. On May 27, 2009 Good Technology acquired Intercasting Corporation to satisfy customers’ demand for social networking capabilities. On December 7, 2009 Good Technology announced its support of iPhone and Android devices.
Service products
According to their advertising materials, Good Technology provides the following mobile e-mailE-mail
Electronic mail, commonly known as email or e-mail, is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Modern email operates across the Internet or other computer networks. Some early email systems required that the author and the recipient both be online at the...
products:
- Good for Enterprise - A secure e-mail, mobile device management, and IntranetIntranetAn intranet is a computer network that uses Internet Protocol technology to securely share any part of an organization's information or network operating system within that organization. The term is used in contrast to internet, a network between organizations, and instead refers to a network...
-InternetInternetThe Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
proxy serverProxy serverIn computer networks, a proxy server is a server that acts as an intermediary for requests from clients seeking resources from other servers. A client connects to the proxy server, requesting some service, such as a file, connection, web page, or other resource available from a different server...
solution targeted for companiesCompanyA company is a form of business organization. It is an association or collection of individual real persons and/or other companies, who each provide some form of capital. This group has a common purpose or focus and an aim of gaining profits. This collection, group or association of persons can be...
. It includes three main components: Good Mobile Control, for device management and security, Good Mobile Messaging, for secure email and PIM access, and Good Mobile Access for secure mobile access to enterprise networks and applications.
- Good for Government - Same as Good for Enterprise, but with added security of S/MIMES/MIMES/MIME is a standard for public key encryption and signing of MIME data. S/MIME is on an IETF standards track and defined in a number of documents, most importantly RFCs. S/MIME was originally developed by RSA Data Security Inc...
messaging and Common Access CardCommon Access CardThe Common Access Card is a United States Department of Defense smart card issued as standard identification for active-duty military personnel, reserve personnel, civilian employees, other non-DoD government employees, state employees of the National Guard, and eligible contractor personnel.The...
support, targeted for governmentGovernmentGovernment refers to the legislators, administrators, and arbitrators in the administrative bureaucracy who control a state at a given time, and to the system of government by which they are organized...
s.
- Good for You - A mobile e-mail, personal calendaringCalendaring softwareCalendaring software is software that minimally provides users with an electronic version of a calendar. Additionally, the software may provide an appointment book, address book, and/or contact list. These tools are an extension of many of the features provided by time management software such as...
, social networking and instant messagingInstant messagingInstant Messaging is a form of real-time direct text-based chatting communication in push mode between two or more people using personal computers or other devices, along with shared clients. The user's text is conveyed over a network, such as the Internet...
solution targeted at individuals
Competition
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