14 DAY TRIAL // The Symbian Foundation announced on Thursday that Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC), a recently established subsidiary of Qualcomm, joined its member list and that it was also appointed to the Symbian Foundation board of directors. According to the duo, QuIC is set to provide help to the Symbian Foundation both with active participation on the board of directors as well as on the councils that regulate the development of Symbian.
QuIC, as many of you might already know, is focused on offering help on the open-source software that would be used with Qualcomm's technology solutions. The company comes towards the Symbian Foundation with knowledge in open source, and has already announced its commitment to help the commercial success of the Symbian platform. It has joined the board of directors that already includes members like AT&T, Vodafone and NTT DOCOMO in the carrier area, ST Microelectronics NV and Texas Instruments in the chip maker area, or Samsung, Sony Ericsson and Nokia in the handset vendor area.
“QuIC joining the Symbian Foundation and the Symbian Foundation board demonstrates our long-term commitment to provide expertise and to optimize technology with the Symbian platform,” said Rob Chandhok, president of QuIC. “High-level operating systems offer the potential to unleash tremendous innovation and we are excited to help advance that process on the Symbian platform. Working as part of the Symbian Foundation, QuIC looks forward to participating in technology innovation in areas such as multi-core CPU support, Web browser and application enhancement, and CDMA and LTE support.” The Symbian platform includes a complete, open-source mobile operating system, as well as user interfaces, middleware and a wide range of applications that are being used in over 300 million smartphones all around the world, the Symbian Foundation states. At the same time, it also adds that the platform comes with software elements that both manufacturers and carriers need for the development of mobile devices. Symbian is a platform aimed at mobile phones, and developers can benefit from the Symbian SDK to deliver attractive applications for handsets based on the platform.
“The Symbian Foundation welcomes QuIC, whose membership and board participation brings us significant wireless technology expertise and whose leadership will act as an important catalyst for the growth of the Symbian ecosystem,” said Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation. “On behalf of the Symbian Foundation board, we look forward to collaboratively evolving and rapidly expanding the Symbian open source software platform with QuIC.”