Openwave Adds Automatic Detection Feature to Its Open Internet Browsing Solution

Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq:OPWV), one of the world’s leading software innovators enabling revenue-generating personalized services which converge the mobile and broadband experience, today announced the latest version of its mobile Internet content adaptation platform, Openwave OpenWeb 5.7, will include an automatic detection feature to instantly identify whether content sites that are being accessed via mobile devices are already mobile friendly or if they need adapting. The automatic detection feature identifies if the page the user wants to view is already a mobile friendly page and if so sends it directly to the phone with minimal changes. The new feature, dubbed "Mobile Fetch First,” was developed by Openwave in conjunction with Bango, the world’s first global exchange for the mobile web. The feature supports mobile Web initiative best practices from W3C, the leading web standards consortium, and ensures that the integrity of mobile friendly sites is respected by the transcoder using advanced profiling techniques to establish what kind of content is being served. OpenWeb is a part of Openwave Integra, a next generation service management proxy designed to rapidly enable open, secure multimedia and multi-protocol service deployment on converged networks. "Web sites need to identify the types of mobile device that are accessing their content, and if content that is already optimized for WAP devices is again reformatted via a gateway, it may create significant problems for all parties involved,” said Ketan Kittur, director of product management, Openwave. "Openwave OpenWeb 5.7 automatically identifies whether or not a selected website requires reformatting to display correctly on the mobile device. We believe this automatic detection feature will allow operators to deliver a superior user experience on mobile devices without compromising content providers.” Openwave OpenWeb intercepts requests for all standard websites and converts web pages into highly compressed, functional mobile phone-compliant pages. The new automatic detection features ensure that content already mobile friendly is not reformatted so all parties involved in the mobile exchange, including third party aggregators and billing specialists, are not obstructed by the mobile formatting process. Bango’s mobile web platform is used by the world’s leading content providers. As a result, Bango has experienced the issue of re-formatting mobile data firsthand when several of their content partners brought the issue to their attention. "Some of the earlier transcoders failed to respect the intelligence that many websites incorporate to deliver a great user experience across many different mobile devices,” Anil Malhotra, SVP of Marketing at Bango. "Through Openwave’s collaboration with Bango and operators are benefiting from our combined experience with respect to how to handle existing WAP websites when a transcoding solution is activated on an operator’s network. We believe Openwave 5.7 provides the best of both worlds for the growing number of users browsing the mobile internet and in my opinion it is the best available transcoding solution in the market. I would recommend it to any network operator wanting to deploy this capability.” Openwave OpenWeb is an open Internet browsing solution designed to enable operators to offer consumers a broader range of content choices by delivering full Internet web pages in a user friendly and intelligent format to any mobile data enabled device. OpenWeb ensures the most relevant sections of the website are delivered in the first or second segmented deck so that users receive the most important data from the website faster to their mobile device. Openwave OpenWeb is part of Openwave’s suite of next generation service management solutions that are designed to support the dramatic increase in http-based traffic, and act as middleware to enable the delivery of new applications and new services, including merchandising and advertising opportunities. About Openwave Openwave Systems Inc. (Nasdaq: OPWV) is one of the world's leading innovators of software applications and infrastructure designed to enable revenue-generating, personalized services, including merchandising and advertising, which converge the mobile and broadband experience across all of a user's devices. As the communications industry intersects with the Internet, Openwave software enables service providers to converge services, increasing the value of their networks by accelerating time to market and reducing the cost and complexity associated with new service deployment. Openwave's unique product portfolio provides a complete range of service management, messaging, location and client technologies. Openwave is a global company headquartered in Redwood City, California. For more information please visit www.openwave.com. 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