Openwave Sells Mobile-Phone Unit To Purple Labs For $32 Million In Cash

Wow… OPWV is selling it’s mobile browser and messaging business

Do you remember when OPWV was all the rave? Do you remember Phone.com and the Phone.com conference? Man, those were cool days. The early days, (late 1990s and early 2000s) when Mobile Web really got started; HDML, HTML, WAP, cHTML, the WAP gateway security gap. Heh… who remember those days?

And today we are still complaining about the mobility and the mobile web. As my friend James Pearce says, enough bitching about mobility! (OK, he says it in a much nicer way), and do/deliver something…

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One Response to “Openwave Sells Mobile-Phone Unit To Purple Labs For $32 Million In Cash”

  1. Khanh Le says:

    Wow, huge news. Mobility is changing a lot (in a good or bad way?)

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