north america inc. type private industry bluetooth founded 2000 headquarters seattle washington usa website www.oi us.com open interface north america oina is a privately owned embedded bluetooth software provider based in seattle washington and was incorporated in 2000 as a division of the japanese company open interface inc. which had formed in 1992 . 1 2 akemi sagawa a microsoft product manager at the time was hired to run it . 3 4 another former microsoft employee greg burns was brought in as chief technology officer . 5 oina created and sold bluetooth software stack products to chip companies with a focus on mobile devices ; oina products were included in apple s iphone motorola s razr lg s chocolate music phone 4 6 and logitech s freepulse headphones . 7 the logitech deal was based on oina s product soundabout lossless a lossless audio codec for bluetooth ; soundabout had very little lag and high fidelity supported multi channel streaming and allowed headphone manufacturers to avoid decoding mp3 or acc which would have required them to pay royalties on those decompression software packages . 2 8 9 in 2004 oina had a change in ownership . 4 according to dashlight systems which was founded by tom nault in 2003 to develop bluetooth technology and intellectual property daylight acquired a controlling interest in oina in may 2004 and nault became chairman of the board of oina at that time . 10 nault became ceo in april 2006 11 and sagawa became the company president . 4 oina was acquired by qualcomm in december 2007 under an agreement signed by oina qualcomm osprey acquisition corporation and dashlight ; 12 the deal terms were not disclosed . 11 13 references edit state of washington open interface north america inc. page accessed april 18 2016 a b charles bermant and seattle times staff . december 4 2006 this week open interface north america deborah knox for poets and quants . august 9 2015 stanford mbas 25 years later where they are & life s core lessons a b c d brier dudley for the seattle times . august 1 2007 wireless hi fi from seattle s open interface oina via pr newswire . . apr 16 2002 . press release open interface north america releases bluemagic tm 3.0 to target the embedded bluetooth tm wireless connectivity market daniel eran dilger for apple insider . july 02 2007 apple s iphone an initial but in depth review bill ray for the register . jan 9 2008 qualcomm quietly buys up bluetooth experts tim gideon for pc mag . aug 1 2007 lossless bluetooth audio coming soon rick merritt for ee times . august 1 2007 . codec cranks for wireless stereo headsets dashlight systems about page accessed april 17 2016 a b john cook for seattle pi . january 14 2008 qualcomm buys open interface qualcomm form s 8 filed 01 24 08 matt marshall and saumil mehta for venture beat . july 23 2008 mobilebeat mobile success stories external links edit oina web site archive from 2008 . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title open interface north america & oldid 737201162 categories bluetoothcompanies based in seattlecompanies established in 2000 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 add links this page was last modified on 1 september 2016 at 09 18 . 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