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...engagement Elizabeth Varley @evarley, CEO of TechHub, workspaces for tech start-ups David Wood @dw2, futurist, former research chief at Symbian Academic Miles Berry @mberry... Read more

14 April, 2011 by Natasha Lomas
Diagonal Chess 1.1.1

Diagonal Chess 1.1.1

...all my friends, I can not stop me to play it again" - David wood. "I love it! And even more importantly my kids are enjoying... Read more

23 August, 2010

Doubts raised over Android fragmentation

...research chief has claimed. Speaking at the Handsets World conference in Berlin, David Wood claimed there will be "multiple Androids in two years' time". Symbian... Read more

12 June, 2008 by David Meyer
From smartphones to super-smartphones

From smartphones to super-smartphones

...telephone manner one day, says Symbian's executive vice president of research, David Wood Read more

20 November, 2006 by David Wood
Symbian's research chief on going open source

Symbian's research chief on going open source

...open source. ZDNet.co.uk caught up with Symbian's research chief, David Wood, at this week's Symbian Smartphone Show at Earls Court in... Read more

23 October, 2008 by David Meyer

Symbian to ease app building for China Mobile

...Signed accreditation process for mobile applications, the Symbian Foundation's founding director David Wood said. "Symbian Signed will be simplified to make it easier for... Read more

9 September, 2009 by Tom Espiner

Symbian Foundation 2010 roadmap: ?the open route to openness?

...an organisation that aims to fully open up the mobile operating system. David Wood is a key member of the organisation’s new leadership team... Read more

11 May, 2009

What the future holds for mobile applications

...to create an 'app mall' rather than an 'app store', according to David Wood, executive vice president for research at the Symbian Foundation. For example... Read more

6 April, 2009 by Tom Krazit

Symbian sets timetable for OS releases

...of companies. That plan is rounding into shape, according to Symbian's David Wood. The first unified release created under the Foundation, known as Symbian... Read more

16 March, 2009 by Tom Krazit

Open source phones face competition from below

...Symbian is going to be open source, the company's research chief David Wood told me again at the show. But It can't happen... Read more

24 October, 2008

Symbian, GPL tension and 'bright lines'

...covered this previously here, in a blog post where Symbian research chief David Wood responded accordingly. Now, though, we've done a full interview with... Read more

23 October, 2008

The 'evaporation' of voice and text

...sourced. More of this later, when I interview Symbian's tech chief David Wood, but the chats I've had thus far today indicate some... Read more

21 October, 2008

Handsets World: Show me the money!

...had a bad word to say about it, bar Symbian research chief David Wood, who rather sniffily claimed the iPhone could "get away with" a... Read more

10 June, 2008

Virus reignites mobile malware squabble

...product becomes more appealing. F-Secure is particularly active in this," said David Wood, executive vice president of research at Symbian. However, F-Secure denied... Read more

8 August, 2006 by Tom Espiner

Trend Micro updates smartphone antivirus

...for mobile phones in 2004, Symbian's executive vice-president of research, David Wood, stressed that virus protection for Series 60 is currently more akin... Read more

2 November, 2005 by Matt Loney

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