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Nokia buys Symbian and looks to open mobile future
News Using these contributions, the Symbian Foundation will build a unified platform with a common user interface framework to which Foundation members will gain access via a royalty-free licence. OS maker Symbian has today announced it is to transform... [24 Jun 2008]
Google Android facing a fragmented future?
News Google's Android mobile phone stack will end up fragmented into multiple versions, Symbian's research chief has claimed. Symbian has previously dismissed mobile Linux as being too fragmented in its nature but that was before Google's Open Handset... [13 Jun 2008]
Nokia: Open source needs a lesson in business
News Jaaksi added that he believed Symbian, the proprietary operating system in which Nokia has a major share, would still "in years to come [be] the best platform on which to create smart phones". Open-source developers targeting the mobile space need... [12 Jun 2008]
Google Android - winning apps are location-based
News Pitted against Microsoft Windows Mobile and Symbian devices, which are both popular in China, Android needs to beat them on usability to be accepted, Huang added. Beetaun is "a social network around geographical content", according to its developers. [20 May 2008]
Minority Report: iPhone, Android and the world in your pocket
Comment Symbian, RIM and Nokia are the big incumbents. Just wait until hundreds of developers start peddling their wares for the device. Yet it was an event that could make 2008 a significant milestone in the evolution of the mobile phone as a platform... [23 Apr 2008]
LiMo Foundation launches Linux Android rival
News Linux provides a compelling alternative for the mobile world to commercial operating systems like Symbian or Windows Mobile as it is cheaper. The resulting fragmentation has limited Linux to lower-end mobile phones, with the higher-end smart phone... [31 Mar 2008]
IBM's latest Lotus targets mobile mash-ups
News Antony Edwards, vice president of developer product marketing at Symbian, said: "Mash-ups and web 2.0 technologies as a whole are proving popular in a variety of delivery formats, as they extend outward from the desktop to the mobile computing arena. [26 Mar 2008]
Microsoft mobile - king of open world?
News Do I go with Windows, Symbian, or an ageing Palm… or an iPhone? The world has been turned upside down for Linux developers, thanks to Microsoft's approach to its mobile platform - today it's the most open-functioning platform on the market, says... [20 Mar 2008]
Cheat Sheet: Google Android
Cheat Sheet Unsurprisingly it does not include big name mobile OS makers such as Symbian. Android is also an open invitation to apps developers everywhere - Google is touting it as "the first complete, open and free mobile platform". [12 Mar 2008]
Microsoft Silverlight makes pact with Nokia
News The two companies are scheduled to announce today at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia's Series 60 (S60) smart phone software that runs on Symbian OS. [04 Mar 2008]
Android rocks up at Mobile World Congress
News And so does Symbian, which is used by Nokia and Sony Ericsson. This makes it difficult for handset components makers, application developers and the handset makers themselves to develop new products and services quickly because they have to design... [12 Feb 2008]
Google's Android joins three-horse mobile race
Google's launch on Monday of what outsiders had dubbed the "Gphone" takes the search giant into competition with both Microsoft and Symbian. Both Symbian, the leader in mobile-device operating systems, and Microsoft, provider of the Windows Mobile... [07 Nov 2007]
An Introduction to Programming the Java APIs for Bluetooth Wireless Technology (JSR 82) on Symbian OS
White Paper The aim of this paper is to cover the key features offered by JSR 82 on Symbian OS, giving developers enough information to start programming the JABWT. This paper provides an introduction to programming the javax.bluetooth package of the JABWT... [27 Jul 2007]
Location Awareness and Location Based Services Â- Part I: Positioning and Terminology
White Paper Providing information and services using positioning technologies seeds the potential for new enablers and experiences for users and developers, as well as promising new revenue streams for operators and service providers. [23 Jul 2007]
GPRS Considerations for Mobile Email
White Paper Symbian OS developers have access to APIs and frameworks to either enhance or make their own email client applications on all Symbian OS phones, should they wish to. Symbian OS phones can access email services ? [13 Jul 2007]
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