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Symbian looks beyond Smartphones
The recently re-branded Symbian Foundation is charting a course that the organization hopes will form the genesis of a comeback. Now wholly owned by mobile phone giant Nokia, Symbian commands the... Read more...
Symbian software hides all communication belonging to selected contacts
These days, mobile phones or Smartphones are always with us. There are times though, when friends or strangers ask to look at our new-fangled devices and it would be rude to reject them. Enter Ghost... Read more...
Sybase launches iAnywhere Mobile Office
Sybase has announced a new version of its iAnywhere Mobile Office, an enterprise-centric solution offering email, calendar, tasks, and contacts, as well as corporate directory lookup. In addition to... Read more...
Symbian sets aggressive release plan for itself
The Symbian Foundation plans to aggressively release new versions of its Symbian operating system, with one every six months. In fact, the group is expected to be working on five versions at the same... Read more...
Serious new denial-of-service attack against certain Nokia phones surfaces
A new exploit involving text messages was demonstrated this week against several models of Nokia mobile phones. According to researcher Tobias Engel, of the Chaos Communication Congress in Berlin, a... Read more...
Nokia completes acquisition of Symbian
Nokia has completed the acquisition of the world's biggest smartphone operating system company, according to Symbian Limited, the software company that develops and licenses the Symbian OS. Yes, that... Read more...
Nokia to lay off 600 employees
Things might not be so rosy over at phone-maker Nokia. The number-one handset maker in the world announced Tuesday that it plans to cut about 600 employees. Nokia cited a weakening worldwide economy... Read more...
Open-sourced Symbian questioned
Richard Windsor, a research analyst for technology and communication equipment at Nomura International, questioned whether Nokia's move to open source the Symbian platform a "win" for everyone... Read more...
Symbian S60 5th Edition released
Nokia's new touch-screen phone, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, will be powered by the newly released Symbian S60 operating system, 5th Edition.... Read more...
Symbian open to further ties with Google
Smartphone
software maker Symbian hinted that it could expand its collaboration with
Google all the way to the operating system level. Nigel Clifford, Symbian chief executive told
reporters that... Read more...
