Red Bend Software is a software company providing mobile software management technology to mobile phone manufacturers and operators. Red Bend’s software has been deployed by handset manufacturers including Kyocera

Kyocera

is a multinational manufacturer based in Kyoto, Japan. It was founded as in 1959 by Kazuo Inamori and renamed in 1982. The company has diversified its founding technology in ceramic materials through internal development as well as strategic mergers and acquisitions...

, LG Electronics

LG Electronics

LG Electronics is a global electronics and telecommunications company headquartered in Yeouido, Seoul, South Korea. The company operates its business through five divisions: mobile communications, home entertainment, home appliance, air conditioning and business solution...

, Motorola

Motorola

Motorola, Inc. was an American multinational telecommunications company based in Schaumburg, Illinois, which was eventually divided into two independent public companies, Motorola Mobility and Motorola Solutions on January 4, 2011, after losing $4.3 billion from 2007 to 2009...

, Sharp

Sharp Corporation

is a Japanese multinational corporation that designs and manufactures electronic products. Headquartered in Abeno-ku, Osaka, Japan, Sharp employs more than 55,580 people worldwide as of June 2011. The company was founded in September 1912 and takes its name from one of its founder's first...

, Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson

Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB is a joint venture established on October 1, 2001 by the Japanese consumer electronics company Sony Corporation and the Swedish telecommunications company Ericsson to manufacture mobile phones....

 and ZTE

ZTE

ZTE Corporation formerly Zhongxing Telecommunication Equipment Corporation is a Chinese multinational telecommunications equipment and systems company headquartered in Shenzhen, China...

, as well as companies in the mobile, M2M

M2M

M2M is a three-letter abbreviation with multiple meanings, as described below:-Computing:* M2M , an implementation of the Object Management Group's QVT standard for model transformation* Many-to-many , as an entity-relationship model...

 and WiMAX

WiMAX

WiMAX is a communication technology for wirelessly delivering high-speed Internet service to large geographical areas. The 2005 WiMAX revision provided bit rates up to 40 Mbit/s with the 2011 update up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed stations...

 markets. The company’s initial funding was provided by Carmel Ventures

Carmel Ventures

Carmel Ventures, established in 2000, is an Israeli venture capital fund with over $600 million under management. Carmel is focused on early stage companies in the fields of Software, Internet, Media, Communications, Semiconductors, and Consumer Electronics....

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In September 2010, Red Bend Software acquired VirtualLogix

VirtualLogix

VirtualLogix, Inc. provides real-time virtualization software and related development tools for embedded systems. The company was founded in 2002.In September 2010, VirtualLogix was acquired by Red Bend Software.-Real-time hypervisors:...

, a company developing mobile virtualization software.


Red Bend is a member of the Open Mobile Alliance

Open Mobile Alliance

The Open Mobile Alliance is a standards body which develops open standards for the mobile phone industry.- Principles :Mission: To provide interoperable service enablers working across countries, operators and mobile terminals....

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Locations

Red Bend has U.S. headquarters in Waltham, MA. The company has offices in Israel

Israel

The State of Israel is a parliamentary republic located in the Middle East, along the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea...

, UK, China

China

Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...

, Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

, and Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

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Products

Red Bend's vRapid Mobile(R) supports FOTA updating as well as software component management

SCOMO

SCOMO is a candidate Open Mobile Alliance specification that allows a management authority to perform software management on a remote device, including installation, uninstallation, activation and deactivation of software components....

, also known as SCOTA (Software Components OTA

Software Components OTA

SCOTA is a term belonging to a market category called MSM .SCOTA is a relatively new approach to Mobile Software Management that modularizes the entire software stack of a mobile device, in order to deliver customized features over-the-air across the device lifecycle...

).Red Bend's Mobile Software Management solutions have shipped in 830 million devices worldwide. vRapid Mobile is the most widely deployed FOTA software with 71% market share, according to technology analyst firm Ovum Ltd.

Ovum Ltd.

Ovum Ltd. is an independent analyst and consultancy firm headquartered in London, specializing in global coverage of IT, and telecommunications industries. It began operations in 1985 and by 2005 claimed to be the largest technology analyst firm that was headquartered outside of the United States...

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Red Bend's vDirect Mobile(TM) is an OMA DM-based device management client.

External links

• Red Bend Software Website
• Open Mobile Alliance Website