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Symbian and Intel form 3G alliance
News Symbian has announced that it has formed an alliance with Intel to develop a reference platform for third-generation mobile phones. Levin did not disclose further details on the alliance with Intel, but did say that Symbian was hoping that...
[October 5, 2004, 11:45]
Microsoft and Symbian forge alliance
Talkback Thank god, a cross party alliance in the interests of the consumer, my bet with WMA format also paid off when Nokia an MS agreed to work together on media at CeBit '05. I hate propriety formats that do not work across the board.
[March 22, 2005, 19:38]
Microsoft and Symbian forge alliance
News Arch mobile OS rivals Symbian and Microsoft have today announced they've signed a licensing deal. Smartphone market leader Symbian has licensed Microsoft's Exchange Server ActiveSync protocol and will be developing a plug-in that will enable users...
[March 22, 2005, 15:40]
Psion hits back at Microsoft-Ericsson alliance
News Psion (quote: PON) hit back Friday at claims the Ericsson Microsoft alliance means trouble for the Symbian venture, claiming it was time to sound the death knell of Windows CE instead. EPOC is driving the wireless revolution and the Symbian...
[December 10, 1999, 12:37]
Symbian, UIQ, S60 to form open-source Android killer
News The mobile open-source world suddenly has a very major new player, after it emerged on Tuesday that the Symbian, Series 60, UIQ and MOAP platforms are to be merged into an open-sourced platform to rival Google's much-feted Android Open Handset...
[June 24, 2008, 11:02]
News Roundup: Microsoft v Psion on wireless Internet
News But as with the Ericsson-Microsoft alliance, industry observers downplayed the impact on Symbian's fortunes. The deal is a big victory for Microsoft, which had sat on the sidelines as the world's biggest wireless-phone makers -- including Ericsson...
[December 10, 1999, 14:53]
Symbian Foundation launch: What members said
News The Symbian, Series 60, UIQ and MOAP platforms are to be merged into an open-sourced platform to rival Google's much-feted Android Open Handset Alliance project. Representatives of the major mobile-phone manufacturers joined mobile-operating-system...
[June 24, 2008, 14:58]
Symbian Foundation signs up more supporters
News The Symbian Foundation now has a total of 78 supporters. The not-for-profit organisation — which has been set up to unify Symbian, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) software; and administer, oversee and develop the resulting Symbian mobile OS in its altered...
[February 16, 2009, 14:59]
Symbian - the whiff of sour grapes?
Blog I've held back until now from writing about Symbian's reaction to Google's Android platform, because.well.it's a bit old-hat really. Symbian certainly has reason to celebrate at the moment over pretty positive results which stem largely from a cut...
[November 7, 2007, 12:00]
Bluetooth: Symbian to squash Windows CE?
News But the company's desire to be a force within the wireless computing market and its on-going competition with Symbian's Epoc32 operating system which fully supports Bluetooth, could see Microsoft being pulled into the technology or losing out to...
[April 16, 1999, 12:08]
Shortlists for CNET tech awards unveiled
News Symbian — Symbian's Content Management Solution Alliance & Leicester — Alliance & Leicester secures online banking customers with RSA Security Brands2Life and Banner — The Business Software Alliance's 'Software Cluedo'
[July 7, 2006, 15:35]
Motorola to license 3Com's Palm OS
News British palmtop computer group Psion (quote: PON) and US telecoms equipment maker Motorola said on Tuesday that Motorola is still fully committed to the Symbian operating-system alliance, in the wake of Motorola's deal with handheld company Palm.
[December 14, 1999, 15:24]
Cold water poured on Intel's Symbian deal
News Chipmaker Texas Instruments (TI) has played down the importance to the smartphone market of Symbian's new alliance with Intel. Speaking after Symbian chief executive David Levin had announced that the two companies were teaming up to develop a...
[October 5, 2004, 17:55]
Symbian vs Android: How they square up
News With the announcement on Tuesday of the formation of the Symbian Foundation, the forces of mobile open source appear to be congregating into two major camps: the Symbian Foundation and the Open Handset Alliance, which is developing Google's...
[June 26, 2008, 11:32]
CeBIT: Sun confirms it will support Symbian group
News With the number of mobile phone users estimated to represent 1/6 of the world's population by 2005, the significance of this alliance between Sun and Symbian on the mobile phone market is monumental," said McNealy.
[March 17, 1999, 17:46]
Why Symbian beat Palm, Pocket PC
News Why agree to an alliance with a company that hasn't been seriously competing with rivals to this point -- as Sony did this week in choosing Symbian's software for an upcoming wireless phone? The reasoning was simple: Symbian offered a ready-made...
[April 28, 2000, 9:07]
First Symbian Foundation handsets due in 2010
News The first devices using Symbian Foundation open-source code for mobile devices will become available in 2010, Nokia has said. On Tuesday, Nokia announced it intends to buy out all the shares in Symbian that it does not already own, costing the...
[June 24, 2008, 17:08]
Palm-based phone to hit Europe this summer
News Visor, which uses the popular operating system from Palm Computing, will face stiff competition from the Symbian alliance, which includes most of the big mobile phone handset manfacturers, and from Microsoft, which is signing up manufacturers such...
[February 22, 2001, 7:29]
Sendo sues Microsoft over 'stolen' secrets
News The company's alliance with Symbian and Nokia will mean it can relaunch the handset with different software, but the process of changing the phone is expected to take about a year. At the time, Sendo declined to give a reason for the decision, but...
[December 23, 2002, 13:01]
Palm takes the middle path
News Those and other handset makers have allied with UK handheld maker Psion to form the Symbian alliance, whose smartphone platform is based on Psion's EPOC operating system. In laying out its strategy, Palm is picking out its path between Microsoft's...
[March 9, 2001, 16:12]
