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Founded in November 2000, Open Interface North America, based in Seattle, Washington, is a premier provider of embedded software enabling compelling consumer Bluetooth® wireless technology applications. As an independent developer, Open Interface software allows its customers to utilize the full power of Bluetooth while cutting the time to market through its wide range of easy to implement, licensable solutions. The company plans to maintain its significant position in the cellular handset market, continuing to provide industry proven, high performance Bluetooth solutions for consumer electronics industry product licensees, while also directly addressing the specific needs of the trucking, automotive, security and medical industries.

At Open Interface North America, we are committed to providing outstanding value to our customers. Open Interface North America is focused on developing wireless technology products for the embedded device market. We are firm believers in the ability of ubiquitous wireless connectivity to change the way the world works and plays.

Providing outstanding customer value


Open Interface North America provides its customers with the following benefits:

  • Reliability at all levels: Our robust protocol stack software ensures stability that is critical to consumer wireless applications. Our dedicated service and support staff provides a dependable resource for developers. Our broad customer base and mature leadership team, ensure that customers can depend on us as a reliable supplier.
  • Breadth and depth of support: Open Interface North America does not only sell protocol stacks and development tools; we also offer services such as system consulting, application customization, porting, training, testing, and technical support.
  • Proven track record: Open Interface was the first company to license its Bluetooth protocol stack software to major Japanese manufacturers, including NEC, Sony, and Fujitsu. These companies released PCs with Bluetooth wireless technology built in as a standard feature ahead of any US manufacturer. Open Interface North America continues to forge relationships with other leading companies working toward wireless solutions.
  • Lowered development cost: By teaming with Open Interface North America, manufacturers can be freed from complicated interoperability testing and can simplify their testing process, making it possible to further lower the development cost.
  • Market foresight: Open Interface North America is dedicated to remaining on the forefront of trends in the wireless industry, in order to ensure that our software solutions meet today's needs while building for future functionality.
Open Interface North America and Bluetooth wireless technology


Open Interface was one of the first associate members of the Bluetooth SIG and is a pioneer in developing Bluetooth protocol stacks. A Bluetooth protocol stack is software that controls the core communication functions between Bluetooth devices. Open Interface North America's BLUEmagic® 3.0 protocol stack software offers key customer benefits, including superior performance and support that ensures the interoperability of different kinds of devices. BLUEmagic 3.0 software provides high data transfer rates with various profiles and architectures and is designed to be scalable, modular, and independent of operating system services and processor architecture, making the software easily customizable for different target platforms and development environments.

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Open Interface's milestones in wireless technology


Jun 2006 Participated UnPlugFest 24 in Bangkok, Thailand
Jan 2006 Participated UnPlugFest 23 in Vancouver, Canada
Sep 2005 Participated UnPlugFest 22 in Prague, Czech Republic
Jun 2005 Participated UnPlugFest 21 in Singapore
Mar 2005 BLUEmagic 3.0 software becomes a Bluetooth version 2.0 + EDR qualified product
Feb 2005 Participated UnPlugFest 20 in Vancouver, Canada
Oct 2004 Participated UnPlugFest 15 in Frankfurt, Germany
Jun 2004 BLUEmagic 3.0 software becomes a Bluetooth version 1.2 qualified product
May 2004 Dashlight System becomes major shareholder of Open Interface North America, Inc.
May 2004 BLUEmagic® BHAPI™ unveiled
Mar 2004 BLUEmagic® SOUNDabout™ unveiled
Feb 2004 Participated UnPlugFest 13 in San Francisco, USA
Oct 2003 Participated UnPlugFest 12 in Frankfurt, Germany
Jul 2003 BLUEmagic 3.0 software is implemented into a USB Host Bluetooth® HCRP Printer Adaptor Solution
Jun 2003 Participated UnPlugFest 11 in Copenhagen, Denmark
Jun 2003 www.oi-direct launched
Apr 2003 Open Interface featured on high tech TV show
Feb 2003 Participated UnPlugFest 10 in San Francisco, USA
Jul 2002 BLUEmagic 3.0 software becomes a Bluetooth version 1.1 qualified product
Jun 2002 Participated UnPlugFest 8 in San Diego, USA
Nov 2001 BLUEmagic 3.0 embedded Bluetooth protocol stack development begins
Feb 2001 Participated UnPlugFest 4.5 in Frankfurt, Germany
Dec 2000 Open Interface North America, Inc. founded


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OINA Featured in American Business Review


Open Interface was profiled in an American Business Review program highlighting Bluetooth wireless technology. The American Business Review Series is distributed to all 345 public television stations, WorldNet, as well as news stations and airs in many major markets primarily during peak and primetime programming.

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