REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Feb. 9 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Openwave Systems Inc. , the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced that the Company will showcase its Adaptive Mobility suite of content, communications and context solutions at 3GSM World Congress 2007 in Barcelona, Spain, Feb. 12-15.
"Openwave delivers a dramatic change in user experience. For the first time, consumers can get the mobile experience they've always dreamt about -- one that brings all of their content and communications together into one experience right at their fingertips, and all tailored uniquely to them," said David Peterschmidt, president and CEO, Openwave. "Openwave is working closely with operators to establish an end-to-end branded experience across networks and devices, creating unique, targeted services that significantly lift revenues, and enabling new sources of revenues via targeted merchandising and advertising."
Openwave's adaptive suite of solutions will be available for demonstration in the Openwave Hospitality Suite, AV 93-97, including:
-- Adaptive Communications services that bridge broadband and mobile
networks, integrate data and voice for a complete and conversational
communications experience.
-- Adaptive Content services, including a next-generation content delivery
and merchandising system for mobile operators to create immediate and
relevant services across all media and content offerings.
-- Adaptive Context-based services, including a new profiling and
personalization system to create individualized mobile experiences,
applications that enable highly targeted and contextual merchandising
and mobile advertising, and location-based services such as points of
interest mapping and "meet-me" applications
-- Mobile music services, including Smart Radio, which allows consumers to
access customized mobile streaming music programming; a music discovery
engine; a dynamic content store that features one-click access to all
the content available for a given artist; a new music player which
features a full track mobile music subscription service accessible via
mobile handset and PC; and the Musiwave Music on Demand Service
(MODS(TM)) which allows fast, full-length secure downloads of music
directly to 3G mobile devices.
Openwave will also host three invitation-only roundtables on hot industry topics, including:
-- A mobile music discussion focusing on the current state of downloadable music for mobile devices, including consumer demand, trends and strategies for both operators and service providers to provide a seamless user experience. -- A customer roundtable on the latest trends and technology to help operators deliver instantly relevant and accessible content to subscribers. -- A customer thought-leadership roundtable on how operators can leverage a new class of converged messaging that breaks traditional voice and messaging silos and leverages technologies that can adapt to each user to create an integrated user experience.
Openwave has been short listed for the "Best Messaging Service" Global Mobile Award, the winner of which will be announced at the Global Mobile Awards 07. Musiwave, an Openwave company, is also a premier sponsor of the Mobile Entertainment Award. The event will take place during an awards ceremony on 13 February at the National Palace in Barcelona.
Albin Serviant, senior director of marketing, Musiwave, is scheduled to speak on a panel at Digital Music Europa, a co-located event, on "Mobile Music - One Hit Wonder or Reliable Chart-Topper?" on Tuesday, February 13 at 9:00 at the Tryp Apolo Hotel.
Openwave is the headline sponsor of 3GSMTV where World Congress coverage will be promoted on-screen, online, and live from a dedicated, onsite TV studio. Openwave CEO David Peterschmidt and key corporate executives will be featured in live and pre-taped interviews from the show, where they will discuss the mobile market, as convergence and personalization continue to reshape the industry landscape.
The Openwave Adaptive Mobility suite enables operators to deliver personalized, easy-to-use, and revenue-generating services for content and communications across all networks and devices. This suite of solutions is supported by Openwave's carrier-scale infrastructure and delivers the ability to transform the total mobile and wireline Internet experience.
About Openwave
Openwave Systems Inc. is the leading independent provider of software solutions that ignite mobility for the communications and media industries. Openwave empowers its customers to rapidly transform their business by sparking new revenue streams and market opportunities, building loyal subscriber communities and reducing operational costs. Openwave's broad range of IP-based handset-to-network solutions enable the rapid launch of information, communication and entertainment services across networks and devices and include handset software, content delivery, adaptive messaging, location, music and video services. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit http://www.openwave.com/.
NOTE: Openwave is the trademark of Openwave Systems Inc. or its subsidiaries.
Cautionary Note Regarding Forward Looking Statements
This release contains forward-looking statements relating to expectations, plans or prospects for Openwave Systems Inc. that are based upon the current expectations and beliefs of Openwave's management and are subject to certain risks and uncertainties that could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements. In particular, the following factors, among others, could cause actual results to differ materially from those described in the forward-looking statements: (a) the planned appearances of Openwave personnel, content, time and/or location of the scheduled panels, roundtables, ceremonies, presentations, and demonstrations may change for administrative or other reasons outside Openwave's control; (b) the ability to make changes in business strategy, development plans and product offerings to respond to the needs of our current, new and potential customers, suppliers and strategic partners; (c) the ability to develop and commercialize new products; (d) industry and customer adoption and acceptance of new products; (e) risks associated with the development and licensing of software generally, including potential delays in software development and technical difficulties that may be encountered in the development or use of our software; (f) increased global competition and pricing pressure on our products; (g) technological changes and developments; and (h) general risks of the Internet and wireless and wireline telecommunications sectors.
For a detailed discussion of these and other cautionary statements, please refer to the risk factors discussed in filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC"), including but not limited to the Company's Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2005, and any subsequently filed reports. All documents also are available through the SEC's Electronic Data Gathering Analysis and Retrieval system (EDGAR) at http://www.sec.gov/ or from Openwave's Web site at http://www.openwave.com/.
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