Openwave

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Openwave Systems Inc.

Type	Public (NASDAQ: OPWV)
Founded	U.S. (August, 2000)^[1]
Founder	Alain Rossman
Headquarters	Redwood City, California, U.S.
Industry	Internet Software & Services
Revenue	US$290.301 million (2007)^[2]
Employees	800+ (2008)^[1]
Website	OPENWAVE

Openwave (formerly software.com, phone.com, Unwired Planet, and Libris, Inc) is a mobile phone and messaging software and services company based in Redwood City, California, USA. Openwave is historically significant in its introduction of the Mobile Internet and its expansion into a large successful mobile software supplier in the mobile telecom sector. Openwave is publicly traded under the ticker NASDAQ: OPWV.

Their mobile browser software has shipped on over one billion handsets, approx 49% of the global browser-capable device shipments, over 70 mobile operators.

Openwave pioneered HDML, a precursor to WML. Openwave was a founding member of the WAP Forum, and is currently an active member of the Open Mobile Alliance.

Major current products include:

Openwave Adaptive Messaging
Openwave Messaging Anti-Abuse
Openwave Download Manager
Openwave Mobile Edge
Openwave MVNO
Openwave Multimedia Messaging Service Center (MMSC)
Openwave Voice Mail
Openwave Email Mx
Openwave PhoneSuite
Openwave Mobile Browser
Openwave Mobile Messaging client
Openwave Mobile Access Gateway
Openwave Contextual Merchandising
Openwave Push Proxy Gateway

Products shipping with Openwave software include devices from Motorola, Samsung, LG, Kyocera, Sharp, and Sagem.

Earlier products included:

Unwired Planet .Link Browser
Unwired Planet .Link Server

The company started in 1996 as Libris, Inc. and focused on developing mobile client software for "pull" services while the general mobile market was rapidly growing "push" services based on SMS. In 1998, it changed its name to Unwired Planet, Inc. and launched its proprietary end-to-end mobile network solution for Internet access and web browsing, known as up.link (browser and network server/gateway).

In 1999, with the introduction of WAP standards, it acquired Apiion, Ltd. of Belfast (formerly Aldiscon Northern Ireland, Ltd.), changed its name to Phone.com and went public on the NASDAQ. In 2000, amidst huge growth in revenue and stock price, Phone.com acquired several high tech startup companies with niche products to integrate across its end-to-end solution. In 2001, it merged with Software.com and changed the company name again to Openwave Systems, Inc. With Software.com's large installed base of email servers at ISPs, Openwave expanded by providing its mobile operator customers with software infrastructure for mobile email applications and other multimedia messaging (MMS) applications.

In January 2006, Openwave closed the $120 million acquisition of Musiwave, a French music application services provider for mobile phones. Later, in November 2007, Musiwave was sold to Microsoft for $46 million[1].

In February 2008, Openwave launched a contextual advertising system for mobile phones^[3].

In May 2008, the San Francisco Business Journal reported that NASDAQ had given Openwave a delisting warning for failing to properly report some financial results^[4].