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CeBIT 2000: Rewind to CeBIT 99
News Symbian announced its first heavyweight support for its EPOC operating system, with Ericsson showing its first smartphone based on the OS. Come back with us through the mists of time as we take a look at CeBIT 99.
[February 21, 2000, 8:52]
Analysis: Powering the Pocket PC
News It is responsible for the Epoc operating system for handhelds and, thanks partly to its European bias, is well ahead of both Palm and Microsoft in terms of digital mobile communications technology. In the handheld market, Microsoft is far behind...
[April 19, 2000, 16:17]
Why Symbian beat Palm, Pocket PC
News Symbian, developed by a consortium grouping Psion with mobile phone makers Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola, uses an EPOC-based Pearl operating system. Why agree to an alliance with a company that hasn't been seriously competing with rivals to this...
[April 28, 2000, 9:07]
Psion profits up but warns on 1999
News There will be substantial costs arising at Symbian as the company invests(s) in the development of EPOC. The company made a pre-tax profit of £23.3m up from £11.4m for 1997 with sales up 13% to £159.9m from £142.m last year.
[March 3, 1999, 14:53]
"Fastest browser on earth" now free for Linux, Mac
News Opera is designed to run on a variety of operating systems, including Windows, Linux, Macintosh, Be OS and the Epoc wireless system. Opera Software hasn't yet put the finishing touches on its forthcoming Mac and Linux browser releases.
[February 1, 2001, 7:39]
Moody investors take Psion to task
News Psion has suffered lately from doubts about the future wireless computing, with its EPOC operating system destined for use in Symbian smartphones. Motorola's decision to drop out of a wireless handheld joint venture with Psion (quote: PON) was...
[January 30, 2001, 15:44]
Symbian to get Visual Basic support
News Symbian OS has been around for several years in the form of EPOC, which was previously used in handheld devices from the UK's Psion, but the release of a Symbian-compatible AppForge may be a sign of increasing developer interest in the platform.
[March 18, 2002, 16:16]
Exclusive: First look at the Geofox One e-mail appliance
News The internal Cirrus Logic-built ARM-7 processor and the EPOC-32 operating software are both standard, tested products; but our review sample had bugs. The idea of a 'pocket e-mail machine' is brilliant, and the Geofox One is designed as exactly that.
[November 14, 1997, 11:59]
Psion and Pointbase unveil Java database for handhelds
News Because the database is written in one hundred percent Pure Java and Psion products use the EPOC Runtime Environment for Java, any application changes can be deployed on the Psion device, without needing to recompile.
[September 20, 1999, 16:13]
Motorola to ramp wireless comms after Starfish buy
News With Nokia and Ericsson , Motorola is a member of the fledgling Symbian joint venture to create smart phones based on Psion's EPOC operating system. Starfish created TrueSync: software that synchronises data between Franklin Electronic Publishers...
[July 15, 1998, 6:39]
Symbian says smartphones on track
News Psion developed the EPOC operating system that is now owned by Symbian and used in smartphones such as Ericsson's R380 and Nokia's 9210 Communicator. Symbian, the smartphone consortium led by Psion (quote: PON), Nokia, Motorola and Ericsson, said...
[March 1, 2001, 10:50]
Colour CE market demand questioned
News Palm-sized rival Psion, which uses the EPOC operating system developed by Symbian, claims it already has colour capability but at the moment, users are not interested "because of pricing and the drainage on battery life," according to Psion UK...
[February 4, 1999, 16:51]
A Year Ago: Colour CE market demand questioned
News Palm-sized rival Psion, which uses the EPOC operating system developed by Symbian, claims it already has colour capability but at the moment, users are not interested "because of pricing and the drainage on battery life," according to Psion UK...
[February 4, 2000, 6:01]
Psion targets corporates in the PDA/PAD market
News Psion's Enterprise Computing division -- formerly known as Psion Industrial is readying Internet-ready devices based on the Intel StrongARM processor architecture, that incorporate Sun's Java as well as its own Epoc operating software.
[July 16, 1999, 18:42]
Nokia set to launch colour wireless organiser
News If Nokia succeeds in getting the jump on Microsoft it would be a boost for Symbian's EPOC operating system, which already runs a combination phone-organiser from Ericsson. A colour-screen personal organiser/mobile phone combination from Nokia and...
[January 15, 2001, 10:19]
Symbian rallies developers against Microsoft
News Symbian has been around for four years as a joint venture between the UK's Psion, which supplied the EPOC operating system on which Symbian is based, and major mobile phone manufacturers such as Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and most recently...
[April 24, 2002, 9:30]
Psion shares rise on Bluetooth deal
News Psion is best known for its handheld computers and the use of its EPOC operating system in the Symbian smartphone alliance. Psion (quote: PON) shares got a boost from Bluetooth Thursday, surging 5 percent by midday after the UK computer company...
[February 15, 2001, 11:44]
Europeans to get smart with digital gadgets
News Smart handheld devices will also gain in popularity, fuelled by the penetration of enhanced versions of the Wireless Application Protocol (WAP), and the spread of the Epoc operating system. The market for smart handheld devices in Western Europe is...
[August 26, 1999, 11:47]
Symbian heads 'to top' of smartphone boom
News The firm projects that the Symbian OS, which grew out of the EPOC operating system originally used on Psion handheld computers, will win the most smartphone market share by 2008, largely because of wide support by mobile phone makers.
[January 9, 2004, 15:10]
Psion NetBook Pro: a first look review
Reviews Fans of the earlier devices will immediately notice the replacement of Psion’s old EPOC operating system with Microsoft’s Windows CE .NET 4.2. Goodbye EPOC, hello Windows CE .NET The newly announced NetBook Pro is, according to manufacturer Psion...
[October 3, 2003, 16:34]
