MoneyFlow should follow Editor's Choice for FusionOne.
fusionOne Plus beat Intellisync and PUMA in bake off.
By Bruce and Marge Brown, PC WEEK MAGAZINE
2001
Of all the services we tested, fusionOne's free service supports Internet access and synchronization for the greatest number of devices. The premium version, fusionOne Plus ($3.95 a month or $39.95 per year), adds e-mail, file synching and viewing (with PCs and PDAs only), and eschews the banner ads found in the trial software. fusionOne Plus gives you 1GB of storage for document, photo, and music files; a modifiable user interface; and it also supports untended scheduled synchronization.
You can use fusionOne Plus with Windows PCs, Palm OS PDAs, and Internet-enabled mobile phones. During the easy setup process you can request notification when fusionOne adds support for Macs, Epoch hand-helds, two-way pagers, and Pocket PCs. You can synchronize calendar entries, tasks, and notes stored in Outlook, ACT! Lotus Organizer, and Palm Desktop, plus contacts from Outlook, Outlook Express, Netscape Communicator, ACT!, Lotus Organizer, and Palm Desktop (the last in beta version). It also supports synchronization of browser cookies, browser favorites, file folders, and e-mail.
We uploaded our Outlook test data and immediately viewed it on the fusionOne Web site. Tabs for My Devices and My Data let you track the types of data synchronized, files sizes, and time of last synchronization by device. You can also add devices to your profile and change the data types synchronized by the service. To view and manage personal records, you launch the eDock view and access files, folders, and e-mail.
We tested wireless access and data synchronization on fusionOne's server with a Palm VII. We also accessed and updated contact and calendar information with a Motorola Timeport P8167 phone using Sprint PCS's Wireless Web (Web site). With a Web phone and fusionOne Plus, you can check and forward but not view e-mail and document files. You have to scroll through several layers of menus to get to your data with a mobile phone, but the ability to access contacts, tasks, and calendar remotely is a great boon.
Easy to use and ready now for a variety of devices, fusionOne Plus is the Editor's Choice because of its easy setup, comprehensive device support, and also because it adds e-mail and data synchronization to basic PIM syncing.
Product: fusionOne Plus
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Price: $3.95 per month or $39.95 annually
Requires: 32MB RAM; 15MB hard drive space; Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.01 or later; Microsoft Outlook, Lotus Organizer, Symantec ACT!, or Palm Desktop; Microsoft Windows 95, 98, 2000, Me, or NT 4.0 or later; Palm PDA with OS 3.0 or later, 114K of memory, and a modem or wireless accessory for remote synchronization
Company: fusionOne, Inc.; Company Info, San Jose, CA; 408-282-1200; www.fusionone.com |
