misinterpreted citations that do not verify the text . please help improve this article by checking for citation inaccuracies . june 2013 learn how and when to remove this template message industry business & consumer electronics founded 1983 founder elwood norris headquarters copenhagen denmark area served world wide products headsets website www.jabra.com jabra is a subsidiary of gn netcom . 1 it develops manufactures and markets wireless and corded headsets for mobile phone users contact centers and office based users . history edit jabra corporation has among its roots norcom electronics corporation a utah corporation founded in 1983 by inventor entrepreneur elwood woody norris . 2 from its inception norcom was engaged in the development of ear radio and ear microphone technologies . in september 1984 american technology corporation atc a publicly traded corporation also founded by norris acquired 100 % of the outstanding shares of norcom electronics . 3 in march 1988 atc sold norcom electronics to norris communications inc. nci another publicly traded corporation founded by norris in return for 700 000 shares of nci common stock and a 1 % royalty on gross sales of its earphone product . 3 nci spun off the assets of norcom earphone to randy granovetter who with brean murray founded jabra corporation on january 3 1993 . jabra developed the first in ear integrated microphone and speaker invented and patented eargels developed dsp based echo and noise cancellation technologies became the first company to tune a headset over the air and created the market segment category for mobile headsets with its motorola startac product . in 1996 the company acquired operations in scotland to lead its push into bluetooth technology . in september 2000 jabra corporation was acquired by gn netcom a division of the danish company gn great nordic the latter having been founded in 1869 as the great northern telegraph company in 2006 gn netcom consolidated its contact center and office cc & o headset division under the jabra brand . this was followed by a restructuring in 2008 which established two distinct divisions within jabra ; cc & o and mobile . this restructuring thus facilitated a greater focus on business to business and consumer markets respectively . 4 5 references edit jabra a brand by gn netcom . jabra . retrieved 2015 07 15 . utah business entity search entity 839976 014 a b american technology corporation annual report 10 k 12 13 1996 gn great nordic annual report 2008 jabra . tai nghe khong day jabra . external links edit jabra official site jabra product reviews on cnet retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title jabra headset & oldid 740619629 categories bluetoothelectronics companies of the united stateselectronics companies of denmarkmanufacturing companies based in copenhagenheadphones manufacturershidden categories articles lacking reliable references from june 2013all articles lacking reliable referencesuse dmy dates from september 2010 navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version languages o zbekcha edit links this page was last modified on 22 september 2016 at 05 48 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view