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Latest Google Android SDK: Fast browsing and hello video
News Android competes in the smartphone market with operating systems such as Apple's iPhone OS, Nokia's Symbian, and Microsoft's Windows Mobile. Google has released an Android 1.5 software developer kit, giving programmers... [15 Apr 2009]
Photos: Future tech with an Orange hue
Photo At the moment, the app is only available for a handful of Windows Mobile and Symbian phones but the operator has also developed a system for standard phones where voicemails can be accessed straight from a text alert. [08 Apr 2009]
What's in store for the home of mobile apps?
News Organisations like Symbian, which controls the world's leading smartphone operating system, believe the balanced answer is to create an "app [shopping centre]" rather than an "app store", according to David Wood,... [06 Apr 2009]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.04.09
Round-Up Strangely toasters also got a mention in another spoof, which suggests an emerging segment of toast-loving techies out there, as the BBC's marketing men might put it, with the Symbian Foundation pretending to unveil the... [03 Apr 2009]
Can Symbian Brew BlackBerry?
White Paper According to the research held by analytics company Canalys the market of "Smart" mobile devices in Europe, Near East and Africa grows more rapidly than market of mobile phones. Within the first half of 2005 9.6 million of smartphones... [03 Apr 2009]
Photos: The top tech sites on Google Street View
Photo Also with headquarters in Southwark is the Symbian Foundation, on Boundary Row - tucked away down the side street pictured here, off a leafy-looking Blackfriars Road. Google has launched its Street View service in the... [20 Mar 2009]
Nokia to slash 1,700 jobs
News The company's UK headquarters in Farnborough employs around 1,500 staff, with the rest spread around a services office in Bristol, and design and Symbian offices in London. Nokia is to lay off approximately 1,700 staff... [18 Mar 2009]
Android sales to outstrip iPhone's by 2012
News Both Android and OS X are eating into the market share of the number one selling smartphone OS-maker, Symbian. Last year just under half of smartphones sold were based on Symbian - a drop of 16... [06 Mar 2009]
Drunk Facebook pics, iPlayer, BT and outsourcing hotspots
News The month also witnessed a clash between Google and Symbian over their rival mobile platforms, in a cat fight over which was the more open OS. February started with a silicon.com exclusive that discovered UK police... [05 Mar 2009]
Photos: What will be in your pocket this year?
Photo Unlike its predecessor, the Omnia, this device is not Windows Mobile but instead runs Symbian S60. Sony Ericsson previewed a full touchscreen smartphone codenamed Idou which will run the Symbian OS and... [24 Feb 2009]
"Android is not open. It's a marketing label"
News If you thought the rise of open OS platforms would herald a new era of peace and harmony in the mobile industry you'd be sadly mistaken, as rival players in the space Google and the Symbian Foundation - which drive... [23 Feb 2009]
Photos: The world's biggest mobile shindig
Photo Sony Ericsson was among the mobile makers to announce an iPhone rival at the show - previewing a touchscreen smartphone based on the Symbian OS and sporting a 12.1 megapixel camera, Walkman and video playing features. [23 Feb 2009]
Mozilla exec on the future of handheld Firefox
Comment We also kicked off a [Symbian] Series 60 port two months ago, and hopefully that will be in beta by the end of the year. Are you working with the Symbian and Windows Mobile teams in terms of porting... [20 Feb 2009]
Ballmer: Mobile's success hangs on openness
News He contrasted this with the approach of Windows Mobile and Symbian, both of which allow the operating system to run on a variety of different handsets. Companies in the mobile industry will need to be "open" to succeed,... [18 Feb 2009]
Bury the hatchet and get loved-up, say mobile's big boys
News Last year Nokia acquired mobile operating system company Symbian to convert the propriety OS to open source software, open to all comers. Economic times are tough, the mobile market is shrinking and more and more new... [17 Feb 2009]
