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Google shares Android source code
News Less than a year after announcing Android, the open-source phone operating system intended to jump-start the mobile internet, Google began sharing the project's underlying source code. We're starting to see, coming out of Taiwan, the equivalent of...
[October 22, 2008, 8:30]
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]
Microsoft's plan to take on iPhone, Android
News Microsoft's efforts to regain lost ground in the mobile phone business will see the company offering two versions of its operating system next year. The company will continue to broadly sell Windows Mobile 6.5 to a large variety of handset...
[August 20, 2009, 10:55]
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. Symbian's rival in the smart phone operating system market is...
[December 11, 2002, 6:46]
AOL services to run on Symbian smartphones
News AOL and Symbian, a developer of advanced mobile phone operating systems, have announced a deal to bring AOL services to more mobile phone subscribers. The deal is a sign of the intensifying competition between makers and designers of smartphones...
[April 25, 2003, 8:25]
Touch-centric Windows phones go on sale
News Less than 10 percent of users know Windows has a phone [version]," Windows Mobile marketing chief Kevin Keith said at a London launch event on Tuesday. On at least one Windows phone, Samsung's Omnia II, Marketplace for Mobile co-exists with Samsung...
[October 6, 2009, 16:36]
Motorola announces mid-range Linux phones
News Motorola announced a new step this week in its plan to remake most of its mobile phone line with Linux, expanding use of the open source operating system to midrange phones. The E895 is a clamshell design that uses a version of Linux from...
[July 4, 2005, 9:35]
Microsoft launches Windows Mobile 6.5
News It's a mouthful to say 'Do you want a Windows Mobile phone? The new backup service, Microsoft MyPhone, will let Windows phone users back up and restore up to 200MB of data using a web-based repository, adding PC-based web management of the content.
[February 16, 2009, 15:39]
Linux to power most Motorola phones
News Motorola will begin selling its first mobile phone based on Linux this year and says most future models will follow suit, a major sign of the growing popularity of operating system outside its stronghold on high-end computers.
[February 13, 2003, 7:43]
Coders to profit as Android Market opens
News Google officially opened its Android Market on Wednesday and promised that, beginning next year, programmers will get the lion's share of revenue from applications sold on the download site for the company's mobile-phone operating system.
[October 23, 2008, 8:21]
Sony Ericsson: Xperia not tied to Windows Mobile
News On Wednesday, Magnus Andersson, who has headed up development of the X1 Windows Mobile 6.1 phone, said the lack of an explicit link with Microsoft's mobile operating system was consistent with Sony Ericsson's wider strategy.
[September 17, 2008, 17:26]
Google offers coders early Android 1.5 SDK
News Google has released an Android 1.5 software developer kit, giving programmers access to several new features, such as video support and a faster browser that will appear in a forthcoming version of the company's open-source mobile-phone operating...
[April 15, 2009, 9:09]
OSDL to push Linux for mobiles
News It's also set up to spur development of applications, outline requirements for different mobile phone uses and host related open source development projects. Beijing, in the country where much mobile phone research and development takes place...
[October 17, 2005, 9:35]
Mobile Linux alliance formed
News Mobile phone makers Motorola, NEC, Panasonic Mobile Communications and Samsung Electronics, along with mobile operators NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone, expect to announce on Thursday plans to form an independent foundation to develop a common mobile...
[June 15, 2006, 13:05]
Ballmer: Microsoft sees Google as desktop OS rival
News Ballmer also scotched rumours that Microsoft is working on an own-branded handset, saying it was "not our strategy to build our own phone", but rather to sell the Windows Mobile operating system to manufacturers.
[February 26, 2009, 16:05]
Microsoft hooks up with CDMA
News The software giant has been competing in the cell phone operating system market with what amounts to one hand tied behind its back; the company's cell phone operating system worked with only one major cell phone standard, GSM (Global System for...
[January 6, 2003, 7:45]
Android may spread beyond phones
News The first phone using Google's Android operating system will debut on Tuesday, a model from T-Mobile, and more are set come. For example, what if a programmer wants to take advantage of the considerable computing horsepower in an Intel mobile...
[September 23, 2008, 8:28]
HP to merge handheld with mobile phone
News Meanwhile, German electronics giant Siemens said at the show that it will build its smart phone around Symbian's operating system. Hewlett-Packard announced Tuesday that it will offer a Jornada handheld computer later this year that also acts as a...
[February 21, 2001, 12:28]
Google launches SIM-unlocked Android phone
News Google says this phone is suitable for developers who want to want to run their applications using the same hardware, operating system and network as end users. The Dev Phone also uses an unlocked bootloader, which allows developers to install the...
[December 8, 2008, 15:51]
Windows Mobile 6.5: a first look review
Reviews My Phone service My Phone is a free service that allows you to back up your phone's information to a password-protected web service. In addition, My Phone lets you automatically upload photos and videos straight from your phone to the service.
[February 17, 2009, 7:59]
