mobile system symbian
Nokia buys Symbian and looks to open mobile future
News OS maker Symbian has today announced it is to transform into a not-for-profit foundation - The Symbian Foundation - uniting the Symbian OS, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) OSes and creating one open mobile software platform aimed at driving innovation in... [24 Jun 2008]
RIM and Symbian partner for mobile email
News Research In Motion and Symbian are teaming up to give their customers access to email on mobile phone handsets. RIM, which already makes a combination mobile phone and email device, can get further into the smart phone market by riding on the... [17 Mar 2003]
Nokia-Psion rumour raises more Symbian doubts
News The future of Symbian as a mobile operating system provider backed widely across the industry has once again been questioned following a weekend report that Nokia is considering acquiring fellow stakeholder Psion. [10 Nov 2003]
Nokia buys Symbian share from Psion
News The agreement, announced on Monday morning, will give the Finnish mobile phone maker effective control of Symbian. Symbian was meant to drive the smartphone market through the creation of operating systems based on Psion's EPOC software that could... [09 Feb 2004]
Symbian adds another licensee - in Taiwan
News Symbian and its backers - heavyweights such as Ericsson, Motorola and Nokia as well as Psion, where the OS's roots lie - refer to the OS as "the global industry standard open operating system for advanced mobile phones". [12 Feb 2003]
First task at the new job: Take down Microsoft
News Symbian's new CEO will face a tough battle to maintain its mobile operating system's market share against Microsoft's advances into the industry. Symbian is jointly owned by major mobile companies - Ericsson, Nokia, Matsushita, Motorola and Psion... [15 Mar 2002]
Skulls virus goes for security piracy angle
News The Symbian operating system is used by a number of mobile phone manufacturers, including Nokia, the world's biggest handset maker. The Skulls Trojan horse, which affects Symbian-based mobile phones, first surfaced in November. [13 Jun 2005]
Orange, Vodafone and friends to make own OS move?
News Seven operators hastily put out a statement today after reports broke that they are working on developing the SavaJe mobile operating system as an alternative to Symbian and Windows for future phones. [20 Apr 2004]
AOL and Symbian cosy up
News America Online and Symbian have announced a deal to bring AOL services to more mobile phone users. But the web provider also intends to make "a broad range of media and entertainment content" available to Symbian licensees in the future, according... [25 Apr 2003]
Skulls Trojan carries worm into handsets
News When infected with Cabir, a phone displays the word "Caribe" on a screen as the worm modifies the Symbian operating system and looks for other mobile phones to target. But Symbian has said in the past that the Trojan horse only affects mobile... [30 Nov 2004]
Symbian handset sales quadruple
News Symbian's licensees shipped nearly four million high-end mobile phones running the company's operating system during the third quarter of this year, which ended on 30 September, the company said on Thursday - nearly quadrupling last year's figures. [20 Nov 2003]
Symbian joins Bluetooth wireless alliance
News Symbian - the Ericsson, Motorola, Nokia and Psion operating system (OS) joint venture - has teamed up with the Bluetooth alliance to base the first mobile devices on Psion's Epoc32 operating system, which has already been licensed and developed by... [05 Aug 1998]
Symbian to head smart phone market
News The mobile phone industry will sell 150 million smart phones in 2008, 15 times this year's sales, with the Symbian OS leading the smart phone operating system market, according to a report by ABI Research. [12 Jan 2004]
Microsoft wins major mobile deal
News It also faces stiff competition from Symbian, which does have smartphones in the shops. Paul Cockerton, head of communications at Symbian, was not impressed by Microsoft's latest announcement. Microsoft has been trying to convince these companies... [18 Mar 2002]
Mobile viruses stalk Symbian smart phones
News Symantec, which sells software to protect mobile devices, has identified nine new Trojan horses that target the Symbian operating system since the beginning of the month. Symbian OS is the most popular operating system for smart phones, including... [23 Jan 2006]
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