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  Open Mobile Alliance - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
OMA specifications are agnostic of the particular cellular network technologies being used to provide networking and actual data transport.
The OMA is not a formal government-sponsored standards organization like the ITU, but rather a forum for industry stakeholders to agree on common specifications for products and services.
OMA IMPS (Instant Messaging and Presence) specification, which is a system for instant messaging on mobile phones (formerly known as Wireless Village).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Open_Mobile_Alliance   (445 words)

  
 Open Mobile Initiative - OMA
The new Open Mobile Alliance is a group of companies and organizations, with a commitment to a shared set of principles, who have come together to drive the growth of the mobile industry.
The mission of the Open Mobile Alliance is to grow the market for the entire mobile industry by removing the barriers to global user adoption and by ensuring seamless application interoperability while allowing businesses to compete through innovation and differentiation.
Mobile phone alliance marches ahead (11/02) A wireless alliance of companies led by Microsoft and Nokia is continuing to absorb smaller industry groups and expects to garner even more support by year's end.
www.palowireless.com /wap/oma.asp   (611 words)

  
 Open Mobile Alliance
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), a standards group for the mobile phone and wireless computer industries, has released technical details that aim to drive open standards and interoperable mobile services for wireless devices worldwide.
The OMA Release Program spells out technical specifications, which are the building blocks for a variety of mobile services worldwide.
The OMA expects the first devices supporting the agreed upon mobile applications protocols will be out by the summer of 2003.
www.cellular.co.za /news_2002/112602-open_mobile_alliance.htm   (681 words)

  
 Sun joins Open Mobile Alliance
OMA aims to accelerate the development and adoption of a variety of new, enhanced mobile information, communication and entertainment services and applications.
And to expand the mobile market, the alliance will work across countries, operators and mobile terminals to develop services that are tailored for consumers' needs.
OMA will provide Sun with the platform to help grow the market for mobile devices by making the mobile experience seamless and simple for users.
www.itweb.co.za /office/sun/0206240819.htm   (262 words)

  
 Openwave - News Room - OPENWAVE BECOMES SPONSOR AND BOARD MEMBER OF THE OPEN MOBILE ALLIANCE
The Open Mobile Alliance is composed of nearly 200 member companies representing the world’s leading mobile operators, device and network suppliers, information technology companies and content providers, and intends to foster worldwide growth in the mobile services global market.
The Open Mobile Alliance is designed to be the center of mobile service standardization work, driving the creation of interoperable services across countries, operators and mobile terminals that will meet the needs of the user.
To grow the mobile market, the companies supporting the Open Mobile Alliance will work towards stimulating the fast and wide adoption of a variety of new, enhanced mobile information, communication and entertainment services through a number of activities focused on improving interoperability and the overall quality of user experience.
www.openwave.com /us/news_room/press_releases/2002/20020612_opwv_oma_0612.htm   (663 words)

  
 Pumatech Joins Open Mobile Alliance
The OMA is a consortium of nearly 200 of the world's leading mobile operators, device and network suppliers, information technology companies and content providers that have joined forces with the common goals of removing barriers to interoperability and accelerating the development and adoption of new technologies.
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) delivers open standards for the mobile industry, helping to create interoperable services that work across countries, operators and mobile terminals and are driven by users' needs.
The Open Mobile Alliance includes all key elements of the wireless value chain, and contributes to the timely and efficient introduction of services and applications.
www.wirelessdevnet.com /news/2002/336/news5.html   (411 words)

  
 Mobile phone alliance marches ahead | CNET News.com
The Open Mobile Alliance itself was created by the merger of two other groups promoting standard ways for cell phones to exchange data such as e-mails: the Open Mobile Architecture initiative, created by Nokia last year, and the more established WAP Forum, of which Microsoft is a member.
But it joined the Open Mobile Alliance six months ago, with the intention of becoming a driving force behind the group that wants to standardize different areas of wireless data, including mobile Web browsing, messages that contain media attachments, digital rights management, and mobile content downloads, Wehrs said.
The Open Mobile Alliance believes in open standards, rather than proprietary standards like CDMA (Code Division Multiple Access), which Qualcomm owns the patents to, said Jerry Upton, Motorola's vice president of strategy and standards.
news.com.com /Mobile+phone+alliance+marches+.../2100-1033_3-966604.html   (462 words)

  
 OMA home
The mission of the Open Mobile Alliance is to facilitate global user adoption of mobile data services by specifying market driven mobile service enablers that ensure service interoperability across devices, geographies, service providers, operators, and networks, while allowing businesses to compete through innovation and differentiation.
Openness also means developing industry solutions in a transparent manner, allowing other organizations insight into the technical aspects of the organization.
Finally, openness means that any interested party may join OMA and contribute to the technical specifications, and any entity (both members and non-members) may build applications and services in accordance with OMA’s open specifications and interfaces under the same conditions.
www.openmobilealliance.org   (394 words)

  
 Open Mobile Alliance Announces First Open Industry Standard for Push To Talk Over Cellular
OMA PoC 1.0, developed collaboratively by members of OMA, is a two-way form of communication that allows mobile phone users to engage in immediate communication with one or more users, similar to a "walkie-talkie" application.
OMA Push To Talk Over Cellular Interoperability Testing OMA recently held the first Interoperability TestFest for OMA PoC 1.0, where six servers and eight clients deploying the OMA PoC 1.0 Enabler were tested.
OMA Push To Talk Over Cellular Industry Event To support the release of OMA PoC 1.0, OMA is holding an industry event where executives from Cingular Wireless, Ericsson, Nokia, Siemens, Sonim and Vodafone will join each other in a panel discussion on the importance of PoC standardization and their commitment to the newly available specification.
www.prnewswire.com /cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/06-13-2005/0003867869&EDATE=   (623 words)

  
 The Cover Pages: Open Mobile Alliance Specifications
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA), committed to driving open standards and interoperable mobile services across the world, today introduced the OMA Release Program including new technical specifications.
Through the program, OMA facilitates and accelerates the creation of mobile services that comply with open specifications and operate across a wide range of networks, countries, and mobile devices.
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) delivers open standards for the mobile industry, helping to create interoperable services which work across countries, operators and mobile terminals and are driven by users' needs.
xml.coverpages.org /OMA-Specs20021119.html   (533 words)

  
 PRdomain.com | Microsoft | Microsoft joins Open Mobile Alliance as sponsor board member to bridge computing and mobile ...
The Open Mobile Alliance includes the previous WAP Forum membership, the supporters of the Open Mobile Architecture initiative (OMA) and standards fora, which have announced their intent to consolidate.
The Open Mobile Alliance marks a significant evolution for the mobile communications industry, as it seeks to align the wireless, Internet and PC industries' efforts to build a thriving wireless ecosystem and deliver on the promise of interoperable services and applications for mobile communications.
The Open Mobile Alliance will compile market requirements and define specifications designed to remove barriers to interoperability and accelerate the development and adoption of a variety of new, enhanced mobile information, communication and entertainment services and applications.
www.prdomain.com /companies/M/Microsoft/newsreleases/200261318932.htm   (481 words)

  
 Mobile CommerceNet / LBS / Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
OMA defines an open standards-based framework to permit applications and services to be built, deployed and managed efficiently and reliably in a multi-vendor environment.
The Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. was established by the consolidation of the WAP Forum and the Open Mobile Architecture Initiative in June 2002.
Among the standards groups part of the OMA is the WAP Forum, the SyncML Initiative, the Location Interoperability Forum, MMS Interoperability Group, the Open Mobile Architecture Initiative and the Wireless Village Initiative.
www.mobilemonday.net /forum.php?s=1&forum_id=12   (229 words)

  
 Europe4DRM, Standards, Open Mobile Alliance (OMA)
The Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) was formed in June 2002 by nearly 200 companies including the world’s leading mobile operators, device and network suppliers, information technology companies and content and service providers.
OMA DRM 1.0 was designed for a world of simple, low-cost devices with not much memory, no trusted system clocks, and no sophisticated content rendering capabilities - that is, it was designed to support ring tones and wallpaper graphics.
The OMA’s specifications are to be supported by the Content Management License Administrator (CMLA), whose membership includes companies that span the entire content value chain, from content (Warner Bros. film studios) to wireless carriers (o2) to chips (Intel) to devices (Nokia, Matsushita, Samsung) to software (RealNetworks).
www.europe4drm.com /standards/oma_st.htm   (350 words)

  
 Open Mobile Alliance :: Open Mobile Alliance Distinguishes Itself From DRM Patent Pool
OMA does not have a relationship with MPEG LA and did not participate in the development of the license terms suggested by MPEG LA for OMA DRM.
Additionally, OMA is not in a position to determine the applicability or completeness of the patent claims of the MPEG LA and its patent pool participants.
NOTE: OMA and Open Mobile Alliance are trademarks of Open Mobile Alliance Ltd. Other product and company names mentioned herein may be trademarks or trade names of their respective owners.
sev.prnewswire.com /computer-electronics/20050426/SFM05325042005-1.html   (509 words)

  
 Open Mobile Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Open Mobile Alliance ('''OMA''') delivers Open specifications for the mobile industry, helping to create interoperable services enablers to work across countries, operators and Mobile terminals and is driven by market requirements.
To expand the Mobile market, companies supporting the Open Mobile Alliance will work to stimulate the fast and wide development and deployment of a variety of new, enhanced Mobile information, communication and entertainment services.
The Open Mobile Alliance includes all key elements of the wireless value chain, and contributes to the timely availability of Mobile service enablers.
open-mobile-alliance.borgfind.com   (128 words)

  
 QUALCOMM Press Center - QUALCOMM Joins Open Mobile Alliance Board of Directors to Promote Open Standards and Foster ...
The foundation for the Open Mobile Alliance was formed by the consolidation of the Open Mobile Architecture initiative and the WAP Forum.
The Open Mobile Alliance will collect market requirements and define specifications designed to remove barriers to interoperability and accelerate the development and adoption of a variety of new, enhanced mobile information, communication and entertainment services and applications.
The Open Mobile Alliance goal is to deliver open standards for the mobile industry, helping to create interoperable services that work across countries, operators and mobile terminals and are driven by users' needs.
www.qualcomm.com /press/releases/2002/press1067.html   (680 words)

  
 Scope of Mobile Web Best Practices
It is in the interests of all the mobile value chain participants, from content author to end user, to minimize the impact of any fixed vs. mobile differences and maximize the benefits of all the similarities.
As the Mobile Web Initiative is primarily concerned with accessing content that would normally be rendered in a browser, the BPWG will focus initially on best practices that are most pertinent to "traditional" browsing.
Mobile devices are often used in situations when the users are unable to give their full attention to the content.
www.w3.org /TR/2005/WD-mobile-bp-scope-20050901   (2979 words)

  
 OMA: Open Mobile Alliance   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) is the leading industry forum for developing market driven, interoperable mobile service enablers.
OMA was formed in June 2002 by nearly 200 companies including the world’s leading mobile operators, device and network suppliers, information technology companies and content and service providers.
The fact that the whole value chain is represented in OMA marks a change in the way specifications for mobile services are done.
www.javvin.com /wireless/OMA.html   (68 words)

  
 LinuxWorld | Industry leaders form Open Mobile Alliance
The Open Mobile Alliance brings together more than 200 companies and consolidates the activities of several industry bodies, such as the WAP Forum and the Wireless Village initiative, according to Prial.
Mobile industry experts such as Tim Scannell, a research director with Shoreline Research in Quincy, Mass., said the arrival of the Open Mobile Alliance is more than timely.
Representatives for the Open Mobile Alliance gave no specific timeline for the arrival of mobile interoperability standards, and Scannell advised against holding one's breath on immediate results.
www.linuxworld.com.au /index.php/id;590946396;fp;32768;fpid;1598105094   (653 words)

  
 Open Mobile Alliance aims to spur mobile devices
The Open Mobile Architecture initiative and WAP Forum have joined to form the foundation for this new organization and the Location Interoperability Forum (LIF), MMS Interoperability Group (MMS-IOP), SyncML Initiative Ltd. and Wireless Village initiative, through Memorandums of Understanding, announce their intent to consolidate with the Open Mobile Alliance.
The charter for the Open Mobile Alliance is to:
The work previously handled within the Open Mobile Architecture initiative and the WAP Forum will be continued within the new Open Mobile Alliance.
www.linuxdevices.com /news/NS4926204344.html   (631 words)

  
 Open Mobile Alliance WAP Forum Mobile Wireless Internet Multimedia Messaging Interoperability   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
OMA is the focal point for the development of mobile service enabler specifications, which support the creation of interoperable end-to-end mobile services.
OMA drives service enabler architectures and open enabler interfaces that are independent of the underlying wireless networks and platforms.
OMA creates interoperable mobile data service enablers that work across devices, service providers, operators, networks, and geographies.
www.prismtechnologies.com /section.asp?sid=23&sid2=30&sid3=230   (542 words)

  
 PRESS RELEASE TCS Technology Successful at Open Mobile Alliance's Location Server TestFest   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
OMA's five days of cross-vendor testing among leading telecom companies worldwide was an essential step to establish the interoperability and commercial feasibility of next-generation mobile network equipment and user communications devices based on Assisted Global Positioning Systems (A-GPS) and SUPL technologies.
Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) delivers open specifications for creating interoperable services that work across countries, operators, fixed and mobile terminals.
Open Mobile Alliance includes contributors from all key elements of the wireless value chain, and contributes to the timely and efficient introduction of services and applications.
www.marketwire.com /mw/release_html_b1?release_id=145410   (873 words)

  
 Openwave - Inside the Wave - Open Mobile Alliance: Making a Difference
Openwave, with Nokia, Vodafone and Cingular, created the Open Mobile Alliance (OMA) in June 2002, believing strongly that open standards for services was critical for the survival of the wireless industry.
The OMA's mission is simple: grow the market for the mobile industry through the development of open standards and interoperability.
The OMA approved 14 suites of specifications (Enabler Releases) under the OMA Release Program, designed to accelerate the creation of mobile services that comply with open specifications and operate across networks, countries and mobile devices.
www.openwave.com /us/openwave_iq/inside_the_wave/2003/october/oma.htm   (454 words)

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