Red Bend Software, which specialises in Mobile Software Management (MSM), has revealed that its firmware over-the-air (FOTA) software, vCurrent Mobile, has been named to VisionMobiles 100 Million Club. The VisionMobile 100 Million Club recognises products that have reached the distinction of being embedded in more than 100 million handsets. Red Bend notes that of the approximately 300 companies that develop embedded software for mobile phones, it is one of only a dozen that has deployed its software in more than a quarter of a billion devices. As of Q3 2008, Red Bends vCurrent Mobile shipped in more than 410 million mobile devices worldwide and was projected to reach 475 million by year-end.
Updated semi-annually, VisionMobiles 100 Million Club was created to celebrate software businesses that have succeeded in establishing a significant share in the mobile handset market. Products are divided into five categories: Application Environments, Browsers, Operating Systems, Input Engines, and Middleware, which includes vCurrent Mobile.
Red Bends vCurrent Mobile FOTA client software has been adopted by manufacturers of mobile phones, mobile broadband PC cards, WiMAX modems and machine-to-machine (M2M) cellular modules. vCurrent Mobile is the first FOTA solution to perform firmware updates in the background, while the consumer continues to use the full functionality of the phone, without taking the device offline. Red Bends solution enables the firmware to be updated within the limited memory space, and its fail-safe function ensures that updates can be completed safely, even if power is turned off during the update. vCurrent Mobile is also interoperable with device management (DM) servers compliant with standards from the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA).
You can download the 100 Million Club report here.