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verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . september 2012 learn how and when to remove this template message learn how and when to remove this template message smith micro software inc moving mobility forward type public traded as nasdaq smsi industry software networking founded 1982 headquarters aliso viejo california united states key people william w. smith jr. chairman and ceo revenue 98.4 million 1 usd 2008 net income 3.16 million 2 usd 2007 number of employees 380 2012 website http www.smithmicro.com smith micro software inc. founded in 1982 by william w. smith jr. is a diversified developer and marketer of both enterprise and consumer level software and services . though headquartered in aliso viejo california smith micro maintains multiple domestic and international offices with united states locations in mountain view and watsonville california chicago illinois and pittsburgh pennsylvania as well as international locations in europe and asia . recently the company has shifted focus toward network connection and security technologies and begun forays into the evolving wireless media industry as indicated by partnerships with cellular service providers such as verizon wireless 3 at & t 4 and sprint nextel . 5 contents 1 corporate history 2 key products 2.1 connectivity and security 2.2 communications 2.3 traffic management 2.4 content & file management 2.5 graphics and utilities 3 major acquisitions 4 references 5 external links corporate history edit smith micro initially focused on dial up modem and fax software technology distributing predominantly to oem computer software hardware manufacturers . with an ipo in 1995 smith micro became publicly traded in the nasdaq under the symbol smsi . initial stock offering values were approx . 12.75 per share . 6 by the late 90s dial up internet access was being replaced by cable internet dsl and wireless broadband technologies due to their substantially higher speed and reliability . this change led smith micro to re apply its network connection expertise to new wireless and mobile network software . network connection management became a specialization of the company and as such smith micro developed products of interest to large scale mobile network operators such as at & t bell canada orange sprint t mobile verizon and vodafone . while fax and modem related products were still being sold the quicklink family of wireless connection manager became the company s primary source of revenue in the early 2000s . in 2005 smith micro acquired allume systems and their stuffit data compression software . shortly after smith micro acquired israel based image editing company photags . following these and other acquisitions e frontier america and businesms.com software 7 smith micro expanded its overall consumer business presence but retained focus on network and wireless related products . in early 2008 the company began to expand its portfolio to wireless access and mobile services . smith micro introduced solutions for enhanced mobile communications such as push to talk software visual voicemail services and video streaming . smith micro also expressed interest in wimax broadband 8 a newly developed cellular technology typically considered to be a 4g wireless protocol and a candidate for the replacement of current 3g cellular systems . key products edit connectivity and security edit quicklink mobile quicklink mitile quicklink zero quicklink hotspot quicklink mobility experience manager soda communications edit commsuite vvm visual voicemail commsuite vtt voice to text vidio traffic management edit netwise director netwise passport netwise smartspot netwise i o for andsf device management suite enterprise device management content & file management edit vidio sendstuffnow graphics and utilities edit graphics poser anime studio clip studio paint motionartist compression stuffit decompression stuffit expander productivity faxstf pro jobfinder orgchart quickverse turboproject performance checkit executivesync internet cleanup spring cleaning entertainment aquazone digital tv 4 pc 2 tuneranger major acquisitions edit acquisition date company business country value usd 000000002005 07 01 0000july 2005 allume systems software data compression united states 11 million 000000002006 04 01 0000april 2006 photags software image editing israel 6 million 000000002007 12 01 0000december 2007 e frontier america digital distribution graphic design united states 000000002007 02 01 0000february 2007 ecutel software wireless united states 8 million 000000002008 01 01 0000january 2008 pctel wireless software wireless united states 59.7 million 000000002008 12 01 0000december 2008 mxplay software multimedia united states 000000002009 09 01 0000september 2009 core mobility software wireless united states 20.2 million references edit smith micro income statement smith micro 2007 annual report on form 10 k verizon wireless chooses smith micro technology to support new vzaccess manager smith micro to buy pctel unit for 59.7 million smith micro bags sprint google finance chart smsi smith micro announces the acquisition of businesms.com software smith micro teams up to maximize wimax user experience external links edit smith micro software smith micro store retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title smith micro software & oldid 741846556 categories companies based in aliso viejo californiacompanies listed on nasdaqhidden categories articles with a promotional tone from september 2012all articles with a promotional tonearticles with topics of unclear notability from september 2012all articles with topics of unclear notabilityarticles needing additional references from september 2012all articles needing additional referencespages using infobox company with unsupported parametersdts templates with deprecated parameters navigation menu personal tools not 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