It seems almost like yesterday that to access my email remotely I had to find a dialtone, logon to the corporate network and watch the emails download to my very heavy laptop oh, so slowly. Sometimes I could go for a 10K run and my emails were still downloading when I returned.

Life is so much easier now to access my e-mail, calendar, and contacts. Not only that I can see the information even when I'm offline. An enabler of this capability is Exchange ActiveSync® in Microsoft® Exchange Server. Exchange ActiveSync is a server-side technology. My Exchange ActiveSync-enabled device will synchronize mailbox items through a wireless connection without using a desktop computer, cradle, and desktop synchronization software. Nice.

So, who is building Exchange ActiveSync-enabled devices and technologies? Well, several companies have licensed the Exchange ActiveSync specification to enable their devices and technologies.

The current list of licensees as of 10.3.08 are:

Apple, Inc. |   Helio LLC   |   IXI Mobile (R&D) Ltd.   |   Nokia Corporation   |   Palm, Inc.   |   Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB  |   Big Bang System Corporation   |   DataViz, Inc.   |   Remoba, Inc.   |   Symbian Software Ltd.   |   Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.   |   Xandros, Inc.

Check out the other technologies, protocols, research and components available for licensing to startups, entrepreneurs and ISVs here.