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Ladies and gentlemen, thank you for standing by and welcome to the Smith Micro Software First Quarter 2012 Financial Results Conference Call. During today’s presentation, all participants will be in a listen-only mode. Following the presentation, the conference will be opened for questions. (Operator Instructions) This conference is being recorded today, Wednesday, May 2, 2012. I would now like to turn the conference over to Charles Messman with MKR Group. Please go ahead. Charles Messman – MKR Group: Good afternoon and thank you for joining us today to discuss Smith Micro Software’s first quarter 2012 financial results. By now, you should have received a copy of the press release discussing our financial results. If you do not have a copy and would like one, please visit us at www.smithmicro.com or call us at 949-362-5800 and we will immediately e-mail one to you. With me on today’s call are Bill Smith, Chairman, President, and CEO and Andy Schmidt, Vice President and Chief Financial Officer. Before we begin the call, I want to caution that on this call, the company will make forward-looking statements that involve risks and uncertainties, including without limitations, forward-looking statements relating to the company’s financial prospects and other projections of its performance, the existence of new market opportunities, and interest in the company's products and solutions, and the company’s ability to increase its revenue and regain profitability by capitalizing on these new market opportunities and interest in introducing new products and new solutions. Among the important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in the forward-looking statements are changes in demand for the company’s products from its customers and their end users, new and changing technologies, customer acceptance and timing of deployment of these technologies, new and continuing adverse economic conditions, and the company’s ability to compete effectively with other software companies. These and other factors discussed in the company’s filings with the Securities and Exchange Commission, including its filings on Forms 10-K, 10-Q, and 8-K could cause actual results to differ materially from those expressed or implied in any forward-looking statements. The forward-looking statements contained in this release and call are made on the basis of the views and assumptions of management regarding future events and business performances as of the date of this call. And the company does not undertake any obligation to update these statements to reflect events or circumstances occurring after the date of this release and call. Before I turn the call over to Bill Smith, Chairman, President, and CEO of Smith Micro, I want to point out that in our forthcoming prepared statements, we will refer to certain non-GAAP financial measures. Please refer back to our press release disseminated early today for reconciliation of non-GAAP financial measures. With that said, I’ll now turn the call over to Bill. Bill? Bill Smith – Chairman, President, and Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, Charlie. Good afternoon everyone and welcome to our conference call to discuss earnings for the first quarter of 2012. Total revenues for the quarter were $10.1 million with approximately $8.6 million coming from our Wireless products and $1.5 million resulting from our Productivity & Graphics product line. Non-GAAP gross profit was $7.9 million for the quarter with gross margins as a percentage of revenues of approximately 78%. Revenues for the first quarter of 2012 were in line with our internal expectations. Decreases in our connection manager revenue were offset by gains in our wireless backup and messaging product lines. We expect the first commercial launch of our data offload solution to slowly ramp in second quarter and anticipate significant volumes in early third quarter. This along with several other trials and new product agreements we are working to complete should lead to improved financial results in the coming quarters. Our operating expenses for the quarter are down 35% compared to the first quarter of last year. We continue to carefully balance a reduced cost structure aligned to current revenue levels with product innovation and development investments which should increase future revenues. New solutions for mobile application management and the emerging Windows 8 platform are gaining strong interest in the market and I will provide more detail about those solutions and several other growing opportunities later in the call. Now, I would turn the call over to Andy to take you through the details of the Q1 financial results. Andy? Andy Schmidt – Vice President and Chief Financial Officer: Thank you, Bill. First, let me go over our customary introductory items. As we have in past quarters, we have provided non-GAAP results and a reconciliation of non-GAAP and GAAP results. The non-GAAP results discussed on this call net out stock compensation-related expenses, non-cash tax expense or benefit to provide comparable operating results. Accordingly, all results that I refer to in my prepared remarks from both 2012 and 2011 are non-GAAP amounts. Our earnings release, which will be furnished to the SEC on Form 8-K contains a presentation of the most directly comparable GAAP financial measures and a reconciliation of the differences between each non-GAAP financial measure provided in the press release, and most directly comparable GAAP financial measure. The earnings release can also be found in the Investor Relations section of our website at smithmicro.com. In detailed manner for the financial modulus, let me provide the difference between GAAP and non-GAAP P&L metrics. In terms of stock compensation, stock comp totaled $1.1 million for the current period broken out as follows, $4,000 cost of sales, $240,000 in selling and marketing, $206,000 in R&D, and $685,000 in G&A. While we showed no GAAP tax benefit for the periods due to fully reserving the tax benefit, we are showing a $3.2 million pro forma or cash-based tax benefit as we will amend our 2010 cash return to carry back 2011 losses. Moving on, for the first quarter, we posted revenues of $10.1 million and a loss of $0.27 per share GAAP and $0.15 per share non-GAAP. Revenue for the quarter compares $17.8 million for the same period last year. International revenue was approximately $1.6 million this quarter across all business groups. Our Wireless segment reported revenues for the quarter of $8.6 million as compared to $16 million last year. Our Productivity & Graphics segment posted revenues of $1.5 million as compared to $1.7 million last year. Total deferred revenue at March 31, 2012 was $1.1 million. Switching to gross profit, non-GAAP gross margin dollars up $7.9 million, compares with $15.3 million during the same period last year. Non-GAAP gross margin as a percentage of revenue was approximately 78.3% for Q1, 2012 as compared to 86% for Q1 of 2011. The reduction in gross margin is due to lower sales volume covering fixed, maintenance, and support expense. Non-GAAP gross margins by segment were as follows, Wireless 81%, Productivity & Graphics 74%. Switching to operating expenses, non-GAAP operating expenses for the first quarter of 2012 were $16.4 million, which includes $328,000 restructuring provision. Q1, 2012 operating expense was $2.1 million lower than Q4, 2011 driven primarily by less restructuring costs of $1.5 million and cost reductions of $600,000. From a year-on-year perspective, engineering expenses decreased 37%, selling and marketing expenses decreased 36%, and administrative expenses decreased 11%. Total non-GAAP operating expenses decreased $6.9 million or 30% year-over-year primarily driven by our restructuring and cost reduction measures. Non-GAAP operating loss for Q1 was $8.5 million as compared to a loss of $8 million in Q1 of 2011. Non-GAAP net loss for the first quarter was $5.3 million or $0.15 per share as compared to a loss of $4.7 million or $0.13 per share last year. Cash decreased $8.4 million for the quarter closing that $37.6 million at March 31, 2012. In regard to other matters, the company repurchased 125,000 shares of common stock this period at a cost of $329,000. In terms of housekeeping, we expect to file our quarter end 10-Q by the end of this week, which will represent our final financial statements for the period. At this point, I will turn the call back to Bill. Bill Smith – Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer: Thanks, Andy. During our last earnings call in February, I discussed the significant number of carrier trials either underway or being planned for our data offload solution. The strong market interest in data offload to WiFi was a major theme at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, one of the Wireless industry's largest tradeshows, which took place the end of February. Our participation in that event included dozens of meetings with wireless carriers from around the world and managing congested networks was a common concern for all of them. As a result of those meetings and the spreading news of our launch (express), we currently have more than 10 active engagements with global carriers involving in our traffic management solutions. Additionally, mobile trials are underway for our video and visual voicemail solutions as well. As this activity suggests, we have some very strong sales momentum that seems to be accelerating. I look forward to updating you on the status of these activities as we move through 2012. While these trials involve tremendous amount of work and we can’t guarantee how many of them will resolve in agreements this year, the knowledge and experience we are gaining from these engagements is proving to be invaluable. It is clear that data offload to carrier provided or public WiFi service is only a first step in handling the explosion of data traffic and consumer usage trends. Carriers are seeking support for many other network related used cases such as support for private WiFi networks at home or office, which accounts for about 90% of WiFi availability for most consumers. On-loading of data traffic to 4G networks particularly important as LTE gets rolled out. Automatic connection to preferred roaming partners for least cost routing. Extension of premium services to WiFi networks, for example, content filtering applications for parental control, which can't be enforced outside of the carrier network without an intelligent client on the device. And the ability to measure the impact of traffic policies on user experience and update policies over the year based on those insights. These are just a few of the areas, where we can help carriers by combining our wide range of client and server technologies in unique ways. This flexibility has led us to redefine our data offload solution to a more comprehensive suite that will be branded under the name Netwise. For example, Mobile Network Director has been renamed Netwise Director in our new application control solution, which we will be formally announcing next week at the CTIA conference in New Orleans will be called Netwise passport. This new solution adjusts several different problems for operators related to network performance, customer experience, and revenue leakage. For example, it can reduce network traffic by intercepting chatty applications that cause excessive network signaling and redirecting them to WiFi or offering more efficient application alternatives. It can also identify and manage unauthorized tethering to protect scarce network resources, improve capacity planning, and promote convenient up-sell opportunities to subscribers. It can enforce application-based usage policies such as ensuring the corporate own devices and data plans aren't being used to stream movies over Netflix. And it can increase revenue potential for carriers by enabling flexible value-based data plans based on the type of applications being used instead of just charging for gigabytes. In addition to Netwise passport and Netwise Director, several other products are been developed or repackaged now that will be rolled out over the coming months to extend the Netwise family. We believe that this new solution orientated approach will help our customers by allowing them to strategically consider and plan for a wide range of network related issues, but incrementally deploy components for each use case as needed based on their own priorities and circumstances. On the connection management front, we are finding more opportunities to stabilize a revenue streams by extending the QuickLink footprint in several areas. First, as MVNOs grow their data service offerings, many are looking for ways to make laptop connectivity to 3G networks easier. And of course that's what we've done with QuickLink Mobile for many years. We recently announced the NetZero and Locus communications, which are MVNOs of Clearwire are now using QuickLink and we are pursuing some agreements with other regional and niche service providers. Second, we believe we are very close to securing our first commercial contract for QuickLink Zero, which we announced in February. QuickLink Zero uses our SODA technology to embed connection management features directly onto mobile hotspot devices and modems, which will reduce customer care cost and accelerate launch cycles for carriers. Third, several of our traditional QuickLink customers are asking us for help with the connection management for Windows 8. Although, the Windows8 released preview won't be available until June. Carriers and device makers are aggressively planning now for the rollout of Windows8 devices in Q4. The combination of a standard desktop interface with the new metro interface in Windows 8 introduces a number of complexities for carriers that have to support both new devices and legacy devices while trying to maintain consistency across their user base. We will help reduced the complexity through a combination of software and services that extend Windows 8 connectivity and provides the customization carriers need on the front end as well as the integration leader with back-end activation, billing, and support systems. Fourth, our QuickLink enterprise solution continues to win new customers in North America and Europe notably Burbank and Poland, Eandis utility company in Belgium and the first emergency response and public safety customer here in the U.S. We believe the emergency response deal in particular will be a launching point for a significant business opportunity in public safety nationwide as agencies planned for and invest in the federal government's private LTE network rollout. Beyond connection management, we are providing additional solutions to support public safety and other vertical industries including our video streaming solution and components from Netwise expanding our value proposition to enterprise customers and allowing us to grow this business throughout the year. Shifting now to our network and – excuse me, to our productivity and graphics business. Two exciting events occurred in the first quarter for this unit. Smith Micro has enjoyed a collaborative relationship with Wacom, a leading provider of pen tablets used by graphics artist worldwide. We recently released an update to our Anime Studio software that capitalizes on the new multi-touch features of Wacom's marquee line of graphics tablets and enables natural freehand drawing of cartoons and comic characters. The feedback from our large artist community has been very positive and both companies are selling each other's products in retail and online with exclusive promotions and bundles. We also released an update to the Poser 3D graphics product including international versions for the Japanese and German markets. Poser has a long established history in both markets and our distribution partners are very excited about the enhancements to Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012, which will begin shipping this month. Although, our Q1 revenues do not reflect the many exciting opportunities we are pursuing. The development progress we are making across our entire business, we remained committed to pragmatic technology innovation and managing our business to capitalize on the opportunities lie ahead. Well, we cannot predict with certainty when our new wireless products will be deployed by carriers. We are excited by the volume of deals that we are moving forward to what we hope is a successful conclusion. We remained very positive about the company's short-term and long-term prospects as we expanded a portfolio to meet the evolving needs of the marketplace. With that operator, I'll turn it back to you for questions.