this article is questioned . please see the discussion on the talk page . january 2011 openwave systems inc. industry mobile data software & services founded united states august 2000 1 founder alain rossmann website www.openwave.com openwave headquarters in redwood city openwave formerly software.com phone.com and libris inc has changed its name to unwired planet and two of its former products have launched as private companies ; openwave mobility and openwave messaging . 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 pioneered hdml a precursor to wml . openwave was a founding member of the wap forum . contents 1 history 2 products 3 see also 4 references 5 external links history edit 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 1996 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 . the company s mobile browser software shipped on over one billion handsets 2 at one point approx 49 % of the global browser capable device shipments over 70 mobile operators . 1 in 2002 it acquired signalsoft corp. a developer of location based services who developed the first platforms to provide e911 services as per the first fcc federal communications commission requirements . in 2004 openwave acquired nombas inc. the developer of cmm a scripting language with c like syntax which was later enhanced to support ecmascript and renamed scriptease . in january 2006 openwave closed the 120 million acquisition of musiwave a french music application services provider for mobile phones founded by gilles babinet . in november 2007 the company sold musiwave to microsoft for 46 million . 3 in the same year openwave was alleged of violating securities laws by issuing misleading financial statements . 4 in february 2008 openwave launched a contextual advertising system for mobile phones . 5 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 . 6 on june 30 2008 openwave issued a press release stating that purple labs has acquired the openwave mobile phone software business which develops and markets its browser and messaging client technologies . . 7 on october 18 2010 openwave announced that it licensed certain patents to mobixell 724 solutions inc as part of an intellectual property protection arrangement . 8 on may 1 2012 openwave announced the completion of the sale of its mediation and messaging product businesses to marlin equity partners . openwave changed its name back to unwired planet . they are now exclusively focused on licensing and enforcement of ip that they claim is foundational to mobile communications . 9 in response to claims that the company has become a patent troll unwired planet s general counsel noah mesel states we happen to be at the point in our business cycle where what s left is a patent portfolio . 9 the former product businesses have also re launched as two privately held companies openwave mobility inc. and openwave messaging inc. in 2013 openwave messaging acquired critical path . on 2 march 2016 openwave messaging was acquired by synchronoss technologies and the company started trading under synchronoss messaging . as of april 2016 openwave mobility continues to operate as a marlin equity company . products edit major current products include openwave mobility integra platform media optimizer web optimizer mobile analytics promotion pricing & innovation smart user repository openwave messaging email mx network message store voice and video messaging universal messaging suite multimedia messaging service center app suite rich mail edge gx earlier products included openwave email kx openwave mobile access gateway mag openwave mobile browser openwave mobile messaging client unwired planet up.link browser unwired planet up.link server see also edit internet messaging platform references edit a b about openwave . openwave systems inc. retrieved 2011 04 22 . openwave announces mobile browser integration for qualcomm s brew solution 12 september 2006 microsoft snares musiwave for 46m 15 november 2007 bernstein litowitz berger & grossmann llp announces notice regarding class action suit against openwave systems inc. and certain of its senior officers and directors . march 14 2007 . retrieved jul 14 2013 . openwave launches contextual advertising solution fiercemobilecontent thursday 22 may 2008 retrieved 2008 06 12 monday 30 june 2008 retrieved 2008 07 01 1 dead link a b http www.bloomberg.com news articles 2015 10 02 nevada patent troll takes on google samsung in london court external links edit http www.openwave.com http owmessaging.com openwave companies grouped at opencorporates retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title openwave & oldid 730325345 categories mobile web browsershidden categories all articles with dead external linksarticles with dead external 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