LAGUNA NIGUEL, Calif., March 15, 2004 (PRIMEZONE) -- Bitfone Corporation (www.bitfone.com), the company that pioneered over-the-air (OTA) firmware update technology for mobile phones, today announced the opening of its new China Development Center in Shanghai, China, to meet the growing demand for Bitfone's OTA update solutions.
"With the largest population of mobile phone subscribers in the world, China is a key emerging market for Bitfone's OTA update solutions," said Gene Wang, chairman and CEO, Bitfone. "With our new development center, Bitfone is demonstrating our commitment to Chinese carriers and manufacturers, and also accelerating our development of next-generation OTA solutions."
"We are very pleased to provide local support for integration efforts with Bitfone's growing list of Asian technology partners," said Harri Okkonen, senior vice president of engineering for Bitfone.
The new facility will be staffed with a team of engineers working to accelerate the development and deployment of new mProve(tm) commercial releases, as well as platform-specific integration projects. Bitfone's market-leading mProve solution is the first product to update a wireless phone's entire firmware image over the air, with complete security and fault tolerance. With mProve, manufacturers and operators can avoid product recalls, phone replacements and retail center servicing to update the phone's embedded operating system, resulting in significant cost savings.
Recently, Bitfone released mProve 3.1, the powerful new version of the company's market-leading solution for updating a mobile phone's core, embedded software. mProve 3.1 raises the bar on update solution performance and reliability. New features include: the ability to update firmware images in both NOR and NAND memory with full fault tolerance; advanced techniques for compression of Update Packages; version control between mProve Update Agents and the mProve Generator; and a multilingual graphical user interface.
About Bitfone Corporation
Bitfone Corporation provides innovative software solutions for mobile device management. Bitfone's mProve( is the wireless industry's leading technology that updates a mobile phone's core embedded software over the air, in a secure and fault-tolerant manner. mProve delivers significant cost savings in the areas of customer service and warranty, provides insurance against software-related device recalls, and accelerates adoption of wireless services. Bitfone is a global company headquartered in Laguna Niguel, California, with offices in China, Finland, Japan and Korea. Bitfone's investors include Nokia Venture Partners, St. Paul Venture Capital, 3i, Nexit Ventures, Motorola, Inc., Orange Ventures, KTB Ventures, and CIR Ventures. For more information, please visit www.bitfone.com.