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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]
Chinese mobile maker gunning for Android
News James Chen, a marketing executive for Huawei, told Reuters that the company is also considering phones that use other operating systems, including Symbian, the leading smartphone OS on the market. Chinese handset maker... [17 Feb 2009]
Windows Mobile gets a makeover
News Asked whether the company is considering changing its licence fee model for Windows Mobile - in light of rival platform Symbian going open source and the rise of Google's open mobile platform Android - Patron said: "We... [16 Feb 2009]
Symbian Foundation recruits more supporters
News The Symbian Foundation has bolstered its buddies list and can now boast 78 supporters. The not-for-profit organisation - which has been set up to unify Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) software; and... [13 Feb 2009]
