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Company type | 1998-2005: Private 2005-2009: Subsidiary of VeriSign |
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| Industry | Wireless |
| Founded | 1998 (1998) |
| Headquarters | Santa Cruz, California |
Key people | Philippe Kahn, Founder Sonia Lee, Co-Founder |
LightSurf was a provider of multimedia messaging and interoperability solutions for the wireless industry. The company was founded in 1998 by tech entrepreneurs Philippe Kahn and Sonia Lee and was based in Santa Cruz, California.1 The company was acquired by VeriSign in 2008 and later by telecommunications service provider Syniverse Technologies in late 2009.2
History
LightSurf was founded in 1998 by Philippe Kahn and his wife, Sonia Lee.2
In 2005, the company was acquired by VeriSign.3 LightSurf technology and assets were included in the "VeriSign Messaging and Mobile Media" business unit. The group was sold to Syniverse Technologies in late 2009.
Products
The company's core technology, the LightSurf 6 Open Standards MMS Platform, was a suite of hosted and managed MMS services that allowed users to capture, view, annotate, and share multimedia messages with any handset or e-mail address, regardless of device, file type, or network operator.2
LightSurf's products include the first mobile picture messaging solution in North America, GSM, the first mobile picture messaging solution on a GPRS carrier network, the first commercially deployed inter-carrier MMS solution in North America, the highest volume of picture and video messaging in North America and over 400 million media messages shared on Sprint's network (powered by LightSurf).
Notes
Notes
- Kanellos, Michael (April 2007). "News.com, Who invented the camera phone? It depends". Retrieved 2008-10-07.
- Agger, Michael (17 January 2007). "The Camera Phone". slate.com. Retrieved January 18, 2007.
References
References
- "VeriSign Acquires LightSurf". Archived from the original on 2025-02-13. Retrieved 2026-04-10.
- "The Big Picture". wired.com. 2000-10-10. Retrieved 2019-11-19.
- Archives, L. A. Times (2005-01-11). "VeriSign to Acquire LightSurf Technologies". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2026-04-29.