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Be launches mobile operating system
News The mobile operating system -- formerly code-named Stinger -- is designed for wireless multimedia devices such as Web pads and streaming media devices. The new operating system enters a fiercely competitive market with Symbian's Epoc, Microsoft's...
[February 8, 2000, 10:08]
News Burst: Be to launch mobile operating system
News At the Demo 2000 show in California Monday, Be is to launch an operating system for the fledgling Internet appliance market. The BeIA operating system -- formerly code-named Stinger -- will be aimed at wireless multimedia devices such as Web pads...
[February 7, 2000, 11:18]
Mobile Operating Systems: MOPS At a Glance
Blog The Nokia and Motorola OS are examples of non-smartphone pMOPS while the BlackBerry Operating System is also considered a pMOPS. Mobile Operating Systems: At a Glance Since posting my blog exposing the security Google G1 security issue, I have...
[November 17, 2008, 22:23]
Symbian vows to win mid-market battle
News Mobile operating system developer Symbian insisted on Tuesday that it will succeed in expanding its market share beyond high-end smartphones. Symbian's operating system is used in many top-end business phones today, because of its support for...
[February 15, 2006, 12:30]
Microsoft to announce Windows Mobile 6
News But the operating system isn't Vista — it's Windows Mobile 6, the latest iteration of Redmond's software for powering mobile phones. Support for a variety of devices is an important feature of Windows Mobile, O'Rourke said, noting that the...
[February 8, 2007, 8:02]
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5
News Microsoft has revealed Windows Mobile 6.5, along with an application marketplace and web-based backup and synchronisation service for the operating system. He also said that handsets using the Windows Mobile operating system would now be known as...
[February 16, 2009, 15:39]
Accenture buys Symbian services unit
News The consulting firm Accenture is to buy the professional services wing of Symbian, the Nokia-owned mobile operating system company. Symbian Professional Services provides engineering and customer support for handset manufacturers that want to...
[July 20, 2009, 15:27]
Symbian ported onto Atom motherboard
News A Symbian Foundation team has ported the Symbian operating system, used in mobile phones, onto an Atom-based motherboard, which is used mainly in netbooks. The Symbian Foundation, which was formed in June 2008 when Nokia bought Symbian, is an...
[April 17, 2009, 16:20]
Symbian opens source code
News Symbian today said it will open most of the source code for its mobile operating system to third party developers, in its latest effort to encourage the creation of more software for the platform. Symbian is setting the standard for the delivery of...
[April 23, 2002, 14:20]
Symbian takes handheld lead in Europe
News Symbian and Nokia surprised industry observers by taking the lead in European handheld sales and mobile operating system market share for the third quarter, according to the latest figures. The new sales took Symbian's EPOC operating system into...
[November 2, 2001, 13:27]
Windows CE .Net gets Bluetooth certification
News Microsoft announced on Tuesday that its next-generation mobile operating system has passed a crucial test for Bluetooth compatibility, achieving qualification by the Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG).
[October 30, 2001, 16:19]
ARM opens resource centre for Android devs
News ARM has launched a resource centre for companies developing ARM processor-based devices using the Android mobile operating system, while predicting major growth for ARM-based netbooks in 2010. He also downplayed recent experiments with making...
[November 17, 2009, 11:03]
Nokia may acquire Psion
News The future of Symbian as a mobile operating system provider backed widely across the industry has once again been questioned following a weekend report that Nokia is considering acquiring fellow stakeholder Psion.
[November 10, 2003, 16:10]
Windows Mobile 6.5: a first look review
Reviews Microsoft has officially unveiled the latest version of its mobile operating system at Mobile World Congress 2009. There were a couple of handset announcements made in conjunction with the Windows Mobile 6.5 news (LG has committed to Windows Mobile...
[February 17, 2009, 7:59]
Google's Android Alliance gains 14 new members
News The Open Handset Alliance, which promotes the use of Google's Android mobile operating system, added 14 new members this week, including the world's largest mobile operator Vodafone. T-Mobile and HTC announced in October the G1, the first phone to...
[December 10, 2008, 10:21]
Palm unveils new OS and handset
News Palm has introduced a new mobile-phone operating system, called webOS, along with the Palm Pre, the first device to use it. WebOS marks the first new Palm operating system since 2002, when Palm OS 5 was released.
[January 9, 2009, 13:13]
Touch-centric Windows phones go on sale
News Microsoft has launched Windows Mobile 6.5, and announced that Windows-branded handsets with the operating system will go on sale around the world on Tuesday. The 'Window phones' branding marks a shift, as devices using the Windows Mobile operating...
[October 6, 2009, 16:36]
Symbian Foundation launch: What members said
News Representatives of the major mobile-phone manufacturers joined mobile-operating-system vendors and even operators on Tuesday to announce the Symbian Foundation. In the past, phone makers had to think about which user interface and operating-system...
[June 24, 2008, 14:58]
Access Linux Platform upgraded, downsized
News The next version of the Access Linux Platform has been unveiled, alongside a lightweight version of the mobile operating system for low-cost handsets. Rivals to the LiMo standards used in ALP include Google's Android platform and the soon-to-be...
[October 24, 2008, 11:55]
Fujitsu plays smart with Symbian
News Device maker Fujitsu on Tuesday said it has developed the first mobile phone for 3G networks based on Symbian, an operating system backed by Nokia, Motorola and other wireless leaders. But Orange's network is based on Global System for Mobile...
[December 11, 2002, 6:46]
