Bitfone Demonstrates Mprove Over-the-Air Solution on Texas Instruments' OMAP Platform at 3Gsm World Congress.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers 3GSM World Congress 2003 CANNES, France--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 18, 2003 Bitfone Corp. (www.bitfone.com), a leader in over-the-air firmware update technology for mobile devices, will demonstrate mProve(TM), the industry's leading over-the-air firmware update solution, on the Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. Inc. (TI) OMAP OMAP Office of Medical Assistance Programs (Oregon Department of Human Services) OMAP Open Multimedia Applications Platform (Texas Instruments semiconductor operating system) (TM) platform with the Nokia Series 60 platform. The demonstration will take place in the Nokia Venture Partners booth G19a in hall 2 and TI booth E19 in hall 2 at the 3GSM World Congress, Feb. 18-21 in Cannes. mProve enables manufacturers and carriers to deliver fault-tolerant over-the-air firmware updates for mobile devices. A highly scalable and flexible solution, mProve is reducing product recalls, phone replacements and retail center servicing while providing efficient delivery for high-margin, value-added services and features. "Bitfone's mProve provides OMAP platform customers with new levels of flexibility to update and improve device firmware over-the-air," said Paul Werp, worldwide director of marketing for TI's OMAP platform. "As an OMAP Developer Network Member, Bitfone allows us to provide our customers with a solution that safely reflashes firmware over-the-air, offering cost savings and enhanced reliability for wireless handsets." "Bitfone's cooperative development with TI demonstrates mProve's capabilities on advanced device architectures," said Gene Wang, chairman and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. of Bitfone. "TI's OMAP platform is an open, scalable platform that provides Bitfone's customers with a reference implementation that can be used to accelerate their integration of the mProve solution." TI's OMAP platform is comprised of high-performance, power-efficient processors, a robust software infrastructure and comprehensive support network of independent OMAP Technology Centers for the rapid development of differentiated 2.5G and 3G mobile devices, and other multimedia-enhanced applications. About mProve mProve is the first commercially available product for updating a wireless phone's entire firmware over-the-air, and enables service providers and mobile phone manufacturers to reduce costs and increase revenue through over-the-air phone enhancements. With mProve, manufacturers and carriers eliminate product recalls, phone replacements and retail center servicing to update the phone's embedded operating system An operating system used in special-purpose applications (embedded systems). Embedded operating systems are typically very compact and often designed for real time operations. See embedded Linux, QNX, OS-9, Windows XP Embedded, Windows CE, VxWorks and Symbian OS. , resulting in significant cost savings ranging between $6 and $9 billion annually for the global wireless industry. About TI's OMAP Developer Network Bitfone is a member of TI's OMAP(TM) Developer Network, a group of leading software developers porting advanced applications to TI's high performance, power-efficient OMAP processors. Handset manufacturers adopting OMAP devices enjoy the rapid deployment of compelling wireless applications -- including streaming audio A one-way audio transmission over a data network. It is widely used on the Web as well as company networks to play audio clips and Internet radio. Computers in home networks stream audio (mostly music) to digital media hubs connected to home theaters. and video, multimedia messaging, gaming, security, speech recognition, location based services and mobile commerce -- across all leading operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. . Systems level integration services are also provided worldwide by independent OMAP Technology Centers. The OMAP platform has been selected by leading manufacturers, such as Nokia, Palm, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. , Fujitsu, LG Electronics, Panasonic Mobile Communications, HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing and many more, for their 2.5 and 3G wireless devices. For more information, visit www.omap.com. About Bitfone Corp. Bitfone provides innovative software solutions for mobile device management. Bitfone's mProve(TM) is the wireless industry's leading technology that updates a mobile device's core embedded operating system, over-the-air in a secure and fault tolerant The ability to continue non-stop when a hardware failure occurs. A fault-tolerant system is designed from the ground up for reliability by building multiples of all critical components, such as CPUs, memories, disks and power supplies into the same computer. manner. mProve offers wireless manufacturers and carriers significant benefits, including the ability to reduce warranty, recall, and customer service costs, as well as enables the delivery of billable services and software. Bitfone is a global company with headquarters in Laguna Niguel, Calif., and with offices in Japan and Korea. Bitfone's investors include Nokia Venture Partners, St. Paul St. Paul as a missionary he fearlessly confronts the “perils of waters, of robbers, in the city, in the wilderness.” [N.T.: II Cor. 11:26] See : Bravery Venture Capital, 3i, Nexit Ventures, and CIR (Committed Information Rate) In a frame relay network, the average transmission rate in bits per second (typically Kbps) for a virtual circuit. It defines the maximum rate that the network can handle under normal conditions. Ventures. For more information, visit www.bitfone.com. |
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