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Microsoft prepares for mobile virus battle
News To allay such fears, Microsoft has built multiple security features into its Smartphone OS, a Symbian rival which is also used in hybrid devices which blends the functions of a mobile phone with a personal digital assistant, claimed Mike Wehrs... [21 Jun 2004]
Ericsson to pull Symbian rug from under Nokia's feet?
News Swedish telecoms manufacturer Ericsson is planning to increase its stake in Symbian in order to prevent Nokia winning control of the smartphone operating system maker. Nokia is in the process of buying Psion's 31 per cent stake in Symbian, which... [23 Mar 2004]
3GSM: Microsoft - Smartphone OS margins just fine
News Jonas Hasselberg, Smartphone product manager in Microsoft's Mobile Devices division, said the company is focused on key partners such as HTC, Motorola and Samsung and that there will be shipments in vertical industries from licensees such as... [25 Feb 2004]
Nokia buys Symbian share from Psion
News Symbian was meant to drive the smartphone market through the creation of operating systems based on Psion's EPOC software that could be used by any mobile phone maker. However, Motorola sold its stake to Nokia and Psion in 1999 in a move seen by... [09 Feb 2004]
Nokia opens up to woo developers
News In the next few years, Microsoft's Smartphone software is expected to be the chief rival to Symbian, an operating system for advanced cell phones that has financial backing from Nokia. But some analysts see it as a defensive manoeuvre as well, to... [16 Jan 2004]
Symbian handset sales quadruple
News The company has powerful allies in its plan to dominate the smartphone industry, with most licensees taking a stake in the firm. Symbian's licensees shipped nearly four million high-end mobile phones running the company's operating system during... [20 Nov 2003]
PalmSource goes on smartphone offensive
News PalmSource is to boost the development of applications for smartphone devices with a programme that gives mobile operators more power to influence development of software for the mobile operating system. [18 Nov 2003]
Microsoft, Motorola and Orange team up for UK smart phone
News Orange announced a partnership with Motorola in June and has been a key user of Microsoft technology, being the first operator to sell a device based on the Windows Smartphone 2002 operating system last October - its SPV, manufactured in Taiwan by... [15 Sep 2003]
Smartphones no challenge to PDAs, says report
News Smartphones are more like standard cellular handsets and employ a system such as Symbian or the Microsoft's Smartphone. ABI's research diverges from the view of analysts IDC, which sees stagnation in the PDA market caused by the rising popularity... [10 Sep 2003]
Fight for smartphone supremacy hots up
News Meantime, global smartphone shipments are expected to rise in the next five years at a CAAG rate of 105 per cent. The Nokia-supported Symbian operating system will continue to be used by equipment makers providing handsets to individuals, whereas... [22 Jul 2003]
Fujitsu and Nokia team-up for mobile
News Nokia's Symbian PDA-phones compete with rival phones running the Palm, Pocket PC and Smartphone operating systems. Fujitsu will use existing service centre operations to offer customers mobile access to corporate applications as a managed service... [01 Jul 2003]
Microsoft unveils latest handheld OS and ‘Windows Mobile’ catch-all
News Microsoft has released this year's update to its Pocket PC software for PDAs and has also rebranded all its mobile OS software - including its Smartphone offering - under 'Windows Mobile'. China's Legend is one such company working on the latter... [23 Jun 2003]
Smart phone race - Symbian v Symbian, not Microsoft v Symbian?
News That's according to the latest research from Ovum, which also forecasts 100 million Symbian-based smart phones worldwide by 2007 - overshadowing 22 million based on Microsoft's Windows Smartphone OS. Jessica Figueras, Ovum senior analyst and author... [03 Jun 2003]
Microsoft Smartphone OS moves into Ericsson and Nokia's backyard
News Microsoft has struck two new agreements for the use of its Windows Smartphone operating system and denied it suffered a major set-back in Europe days ago. Scandinavian operator TeliaSonera is to use the mobile OS on phones from Taiwanese... [27 May 2003]
Siemens: Why the smartphone world doesn't need Microsoft
News The one-size-fits-all vision behind wireless PDAs and Microsoft's smartphone initiative, a vision carried over from the homogenous world of PCs, is doomed to remain a niche in the wireless market, said Peter Zapf, president of mobile phones for... [02 May 2003]
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