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GooSync free account back by popular demand

WOLVERHAMPTON, England, April 14, 2010 — Since discontinuing its free GooSync service back in October 2009, Toffa International has received overwhelming demand to bring it back. Finally conceding to the masses, Toffa is re-releasing the ever-popular GooSync free subscription. As of Wednesday, April 14, 2010, users will once again be able to sign up to the basic GooSync account free of charge – and that’s not all. Existing Lite subscribers will now have even more great features, including an extended calendar sync range and multiple device support.

“While the GooSync Lite and Premium subscriptions continue to be very popular, it’s true that today’s financial climate means many users are just not in a position to pay for a Google sync service,” says Chris Jukes, Toffa’s CEO. “We are very excited about the re-launch of the free GooSync subscription. We want to continue to ensure all users have a reliable Google sync service during these harder financial times.”

GooSync ties in with personal management systems that are a natural component of today’s mobile phones and PDAs, extending Google Calendar to mobile devices. GooSync is designed to deliver a seamless service, regardless of whether someone chooses the basic, free option or the Premium account’s more expanded features.

“With GooSync, Toffa International’s goal is to provide everyone with something that is free and simple to use, and we’ve also set up a Premium option that delivers access to many more features,” says Chris Jukes, CEO of Toffa and GooSync. “So while GooSync’s basic service enables you to sync the default Google Calendar, our Premium account lets you sync multiple calendars, contacts directly with Gmail, and tasks to the GooSync inbuilt tasks application. Autosync and multiple device support are just some of the numerous features supported through GooSync.”

GooSync’s website provides a list of all supported phones, plus details on both the basic and Premium services. For more information, go to http://www.goosync.com/.

A few people have asked us what our future plans are for both GooSync and the rest of our business…

As you are well aware, we have been providing GooSync now for over 3 years and have gained a lot of loyal customers during this time.  Our innovation has allowed us to continually develop GooSync from a simple Beta idea to a fully pledged, feature rich Synchronization service allowing us to capture a niche market in the process.

We released the last update to GooSync back in October.  This update was well received and was the first phase of 4 planned releases over the next 18 months.  As our customer base grows this allows us to continue to develop new features for GooSync which is exactly what we are doing.  Google may have many sync features native to their Android OS based devices but this still leaves little support for none Google devices (Nokia, Sony-Ericsson, Samsung Etc) which are left with many Syncing limitations, therefore allowing us to gain customers who fall into that category.

As of yet, Google have not released their Tasks API so we cannot fully integrate GooSync with Google task manager but we do offer our own task manager which is available for all Premium members.  As soon as Google do release the API we will prioritise the development of this into GooSync.

Unlike Google, we offer priority first class support with our products allowing our users to contact a human directly and get help with any problems they might encounter; this again is a huge USP for GooSync as Google do not currently provide this type of service with their Synchronization product.

To conclude this point, we have a comprehensive product roadmap for GooSync which details new features suggested by our user base and internal staff, we haven’t published this roadmap because factors change and we constantly have to adapt, re-schedule and prioritise developments, software development is a fluid environment as I’m sure you will appreciate.

As far as the future of our business is concerned we are working around the clock on new products that complement and integrate with GooSync.  Our latest offering, AddressBookONE is currently due for release this quarter as a Beta.  Here is a quick overview from our internal literature

“AddressBookONE is a contact cloud-based service bringing together the people in your day-to-day life all in one place…

Technology solves many problems but can sometimes create others in the process.  In today’s environment we have contact with many friends, business, personal & family… Accessing all this information can sometimes be a daunting task.  We have a mixture of people in our phones and PDA’s, friends on social networking sites, friends we chat to via instant messaging and our business contacts in our mail clients; demonstrating how spread out our information really is.

AddressBookONE attempts to solve this problem using a single point of contact, which amalgamates this scattered information into one, easy to use, simple interface.”

We hope this gives you an idea of what we have coming up.  AddressBookONE also integrates with Gmail – using Goosync, Exchange, Outlook, Yahoo, LinkedIn, Facebook, Plaxo etc and our valued customer base will be able to get a sneak preview when we have our Beta ready.  You can register for our Beta testing program now by visiting www.addressbookone.com.

We have also been working on some great collaborations over the last few months including MotionApps with Classic, A great new tool for Explorers & Travelers and soon to be announced a product that directly integrates with network carriers providing the user with some amazing features directly accessible from your handset.

We hope we have addressed any concerns you might have but if we’ve missed anything then please let us know, we are always here to help and support our customers.

The GooSync Team.