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Symbian Foundation 2010 roadmap: ‘the open route to openness’
Blog Formed in June 2008 after a Nokia buyout, the Symbian Foundation is an organisation that aims to fully open up the mobile operating system. The Symbian Foundation’s inaugural meetings have resulted in an agreement to take a ‘multi-angle’ review of...
[May 11, 2009, 9:22]
Symbian Foundation gets nine new members
News The Symbian Foundation has announced a slew of new members, including the mobile operator 3. The Foundation is a Nokia-led consortium that was recently established to grow and open-source Symbian over the next two years, while incorporating Symbian...
[July 10, 2008, 17:03]
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. The Symbian Foundation list of founding members includes most major handset vendors, in...
[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]
Opera signs up to Symbian Foundation
News The browser company Opera has signed up to the Symbian Foundation, a Nokia-led consortium that was set up in June to turn the Symbian mobile operating system into an open-source platform. The addition of Opera to the Symbian Foundation roster was...
[September 9, 2008, 16:54]
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. It will set up the Symbian Foundation (SF) alongside a multitude of other manufacturers and operators, combining Symbian...
[June 24, 2008, 17:08]
ARM joins Symbian Foundation, releases tools
News ARM has joined the Symbian Foundation and has collaborated on one of two developer tool releases for the soon-to-be-open-source platform. The processor firm announced its involvement in the Symbian Foundation on Tuesday, alongside other new...
[October 22, 2008, 12:16]
Symbian to set up app developer programme
News The Symbian Foundation plans to release an application publishing programme, called Horizon, to help developers write for the upcoming open-source mobile platform. Our goal is to encourage robust application development, increase revenue and...
[July 16, 2009, 16:57]
Symbian admits Trojan slip-up
News The Symbian Foundation has acknowledged that its process for keeping malicious applications off Symbian OS-based phones needs improvement, after a Trojan horse program passed a security test. Developers must submit the mobile applications they...
[July 17, 2009, 17:25]
Symbian to ease app building for China Mobile
News The Symbian Foundation and China Mobile have joined forces to promote the development of Symbian-based software for the Chinese operator's app store. The Symbian platform holds a strong position in China's mobile market, and we welcome the...
[September 9, 2009, 17:42]
First open-source Symbian software released
News The Symbian Foundation has released its first open-source software package, the first step in the organisation's plan to eventually open source the entire Symbian mobile operating system. The Symbian Foundation was set up by in June 2008 by Nokia...
[July 9, 2009, 15:36]
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. Lee Williams, the executive director of the Symbian Foundation, wrote in a blog on Thursday...
[April 17, 2009, 16:20]
Symbian: Android is not open, it's a marketing label
News Google and the Symbian Foundation — which drive different 'open' OS platforms — have taken side-swipes at each other. Google jumped into the mobile world just over two years ago with the public announcement of its mobile OS platform Android, while...
[February 24, 2009, 8:41]
Symbian sets timetable for OS releases
News The Symbian Foundation committed itself to an aggressive operating release schedule on Friday, promising a new version of the open-source OS every six months for the next few years. Last year Nokia, formerly Symbian's largest shareholder, decided...
[March 16, 2009, 11:05]
Symbian's mission to woo North America
News One of the most important factors that will dictate the long-term success of the Symbian Foundation will be its ability to make inroads in North America, which has been a bit of a enigma to London-based Symbian and Nokia, its former controlling...
[December 5, 2008, 9:45]
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]
Symbian's Horizon app scheme goes live
News The Symbian Foundation has launched Horizon, its application publishing programme for developers writing apps for the mobile operating system. Symbian Foundation chief executive Lee Williams said the organisation is aware that the diversity of...
[October 27, 2009, 14:57]
Open source phones face competition from below
Blog In fact, even the first incremental step can't happen till Nokia's purchase of Sybmain goes through and the Symbian Foundation is set up - sometime round the middle of next year. Android is looming and Symbian is soon-to-be-open.
[October 24, 2008, 0:18]
Symbian, UIQ, S60 to form open-source Android killer
News Nokia is to buy out the remaining shares in Symbian that it does not already own, and it will then contribute Symbian and its own Series 60 (S60) platform to a new not-for-profit organisation called the Symbian Foundation.
[June 24, 2008, 11:02]
Phone Trojan 'has botnet features'
News Leopando added that there may be a problem with digital signing by the Symbian Foundation. However, Leopando wrote in the blog post that SYMBOS_YXES.B was similar to another phone malware that Trend Micro detects as SYMBOS_YXES.A, and that both...
[July 16, 2009, 12:55]
