Motorola replaces Bitfone with Red Bend client for FOTA.

"Red Bend Software Inc has replaced Bitfone Corp as the provider of client software for firmware-over-the-air delivery to mobile phones from Motorola Inc, in what looks like fallout from Bitfone’s December acquisition by Hewlett-Packard Co... in addition to Motorola, Red Bend’s FOTA client is also in use by Nokia, Sony Ericsson, LG and BenQ, as well as smaller players such as Sharp and NEC, with only Samsung among the tier-1 players preferring to plough its own furrow right now... Red Bend took the decision almost two years ago to drop out of the FOTA server market, preferring instead to work with any server that supported the OMA DM standard. As such it can talk to servers from companies like mFormation and Synchronica, as well as the Bitfone server, back in an operator’s or handset manufacturer’s network... With mFormation and Synchronica focusing on FOTA server development and Bitfone now absorbed into HP, said Grauballe, only InnoPath Software Inc remains as an independent developer of both server and client technology."