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Mac OS X sails past Windows in the smartphone race
News Gartner added that open-source initiatives such as Android and the Symbian Foundation will challenge Windows Mobile's licensing model. The success of the iPhone 3G pushed Apple's Mac OS X into third place in the global smartphone OS provider...
[December 5, 2008, 9:22]
Nokia's Linux OS to support 3G
News Aside from the N800-series and Maemo, Nokia has thus far stayed out of the mobile Linux battle that is brewing between Google's Android platform, the future open-source Symbian and the LiMo Foundation's mobile Linux stack.
[September 18, 2008, 15:42]
Android maker talks mashups and mobiles
News What do you want Android to do that can't be done with Symbian, Windows Mobile, OS X, Palm OS? Why did you pick Linux as the foundation for Android? Why don't you join an existing Linux phone effort, such as the LiMo Foundation, or the Lips (Linux...
[November 22, 2007, 11:51]
LiMo gets Openwave browser and messaging
News Purple Labs joined the LiMo Foundation — one of three big, mobile open-source consortia, alongside the Symbian Foundation and Google's Open Handset Alliance — at the start of 2008. Purple Labs, an increasingly prominent mobile Linux firm and a...
[July 4, 2008, 12:24]
Gartner: 2009 a 'deciding year' for Sony Ericsson
News Milanesi added that Sony Ericsson's decision to join the Google-led Open Handset Alliance and the Symbian Foundation had been "the right steps", partly because Sony Ericsson has not had a significant presence in the smartphone market so far.
[January 16, 2009, 12:05]
Sony Ericsson to lay off 2,000 more workers
News Sony Ericsson's spokesman noted that the company intends to focus this year on "high-end open OS devices" — a reference to the company's ongoing work on an Android phone and its membership of the Symbian Foundation — and "tap into the 3G market...
[April 17, 2009, 14:19]
Microsoft launches 'PlayReady' DRM system
News When asked whether this meant that PlayReady could be used on a Symbian phone, a main rival for Windows Mobile, Knowlton replied that it could be used on "whatever a user wanted". Knowlton cautioned that PlayReady was a "foundation technology...
[February 12, 2007, 16:00]
Access Linux Platform upgraded, downsized
News Rivals to the LiMo standards used in ALP include Google's Android platform and the soon-to-be-open-source Symbian operating system. Access claimed that ALP 3.0 is fully compliant with the standards of the LiMo Foundation, a major industry group...
[October 24, 2008, 11:55]
Fragmentation good for the user, says Nokia
Blog Nokia is currently developing two open-source mobile platforms: Symbian and Maemo. Symbian is a proprietary operating system that is in the process of being open-sourced, whereas Maemo is a lightweight Linux distribution that, in Nystrom's words...
[September 15, 2009, 15:58]
Sun aims Java at the Web services market
News And Sun's Java-Web services union in gadgets has support from development-tool sellers Borland and Metrowerks, as well as from Motorola, Research in Motion, Oracle, Siemens and Symbian. Monday's announcement follows this pattern, trying to make...
[March 26, 2002, 14:08]
Nokia urges Linux developers to learn 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 smartphones". Trolltech makes Qt, a graphical toolkit that is used in...
[June 11, 2008, 9:05]
A rough guide to mobile open source
News Android has attracted widespread interest and support, but it's not alone: Android joins LiMo, Maemo, Symbian and Openmoko in a proliferating set of alternatives to proprietary mobile platforms. Next: Symbian.
[September 23, 2008, 0:01]
Sun open-sources mobile Java UI toolkit
News Meanwhile, Symbian is going open source and Google's Android platform — which is effectively Java-based — could still appear as soon as this year. Earlier in August, Movial joined the LiMo Foundation, bringing with it a toolkit for creating browser...
[August 15, 2008, 12:49]
Sarin to step down from Vodafone helm
News One of his most lasting legacies, however, may be his decision to streamline Vodafone's number of targeted mobile platforms down to just three: Windows Mobile, Symbian/Series 60 and Linux. Vodafone's leading role in the LiMo Foundation, the mobile...
[May 27, 2008, 17:07]
Start-up gives PDAs a multimedia boost
News ARM-based chips power Palm and Pocket PC handhelds, Symbian smartphones and other embedded devices such as set-top boxes. MediaQ said on Monday it had licensed the ARM922T processor core as the foundation for a new line of energy-efficient processors.
[April 16, 2003, 15:27]
Palm gets a boost from Linux
News Companies such as Orange have said that moving forward they would support all the three main multitasking operating systems — Windows, Symbian and Linux. There are not so many choices for multitasking operating systems today — Microsoft, Symbian...
[September 4, 2006, 17:35]
Mozilla seeks Firefox's success for Thunderbird
News Microsoft welcomed co-operation with Mozilla to make Thunderbird dovetail with Exchange, as Motorola, Palm, Nokia, Symbian, Sony Ericsson and others have done. As with its sister, Mozilla Corporation, the foundation set up the corporation as a...
[September 18, 2007, 8:34]
