Swedish company Doro AB, which produces easy-to-use mobile phones for older consumers, has chosen Red Bend Software to deliver firmware over-the-air updates for its smartphones.

This means that customers who have the Android-powered Doro Liberto 810 - and those who buy Android smartphones from Doro in the future - will receive new versions of Android on their device in a quick, safe and easy way.

Samsung Electronics has licensed Red Bend's suite of Mobile Software Management solutions for software management, device management and firmware over-the-air updating (FOTA).

It joins 80 device manufacturers, mobile operators, semiconductor vendors and automotive companies that have included Red Bend software in more than 1 billion mobile phones and connected devices.

Mobile software management company Red Bend says its software has now been embedded in more than a billion mobile devices.

The first Red Bend enabled mobile device was the Siemens Mobile S65 phone, which started shipping at the end of 2005. In the five years since then, Red Bend’s software products have been included in more than 700 different devices.

Mobile software management company Red Bend Software has set a new company record for quarterly shipments. Its software, which allows mobile phones to be updated remotely, was embedded in 80 million handsets and other connected devices in the second quarter of 2010: a year-on-year increase of 77%. This means Red Bend’s products have now been shipped in 830 million devices.

Over-the-air software management company Red Bend – we interviewed their vice-president of technology & new business earlier this year – has today acquired California-based mobile virtualisation business VirtualLogix.