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Symbian Foundation Shuts Down Its Websites

Symbian Foundation, the organization behind the Symbian operating system, is set to shut down all of its websites as of December 17th, 2010, following the announcement regarding the transitioning to a licensing body.A recent post on the Symbian Foundation wiki states that the site is expected to close on that day, b...

29 November 2010
03:05 GMT

Symbian Foundation Reduces Operations and Staff Numbers, Nokia Continues to Support Symbian OS

Symbian Foundation has just announced that it will become a much smaller legal entity responsible for licensing software and other intellectual property issues for the Symbian trademark. The decision follows suspicions about the platform's problems and possible closing of the Foundation.On the other hand, Nokia ...

8 November 2010
11:40 GMT

Symbian Receives €22M Funding, SYMBEOSE Supports It

The Symbian Foundation has just announced that, under an initiative from the European Commission (EC), a total investment of over €22 million was received for the development of next generation technologies for the Symbian platform. According to the Foundation, it will lead the new development project, which is...

2 November 2010
17:51 GMT

Symbian Foundation CEO Lee Williams Resigns for "Personal Reasons"

Symbian Foundation Executive Director Lee Williams has just announced his resignation from the company. Williams didn't want to comment the reasons of his decision, but the company's official announcement cites “personal reasons.”Williams has already been replaced (effective immediately) by the ...

20 October 2010
09:06 GMT

300k Devices Shipped Daily in Q2, Symbian Says

According to the Symbian Foundation, the independent, non-profit organization aimed at bringing innovation to the mobile space, it managed to ship a number of around 300,000 mobile phones each day during the second quarter of the ongoing year. A total number of 27 million devices were moved in the time frame, far mo...

6 August 2010
03:40 GMT

Symbian^3 App Building Opened for Web Developers

Today, the Symbian Foundation announced the launch of web application development tools, enabling application builders to create software solutions for the Symbian platform in the simplest way possible. According to Symbian, the new tools are expected to offer creators of any technical ability the possibility to bui...

29 April 2010
12:07 GMT

Future Symbian Versions to Taste Adobe Flash Player

The Symbian Foundation announced on Monday at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, that it is joining the Open Screen Project, the industry initiative led by Adobe, dedicated to delivering the Adobe Flash Platform on a wide range of mobile phones on the market. The announcement follows shortly after the Fou...

16 February 2010
13:21 GMT

Symbian Gets Reshaped via Symbian Ideas Website

The Symbian Foundation announced today that it was enhancing the Symbian platform and applications for the operating system via ideas that were submitted to the Symbian Ideas website. Given the fact that Symbian is now an open organization and an open platform, the Symbian Ideas website is one of the main drivers fo...

15 February 2010
16:51 GMT

Symbian^3 Officially Unveiled

The Symbian Foundation unveiled today, at the Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain, the Symbian^3 (S^3) platform, which comes as the first entirely open source release of the operating system, following the transition to an open source license for the platform, announced at the beginning of the month. According...

15 February 2010
05:33 GMT

Symbian Goes Open Source Completely

The Symbian Foundation announced today the completion of the largest transition towards open source in the history of software. Starting today, the Symbian platform is available to every one, as the Foundation has just finalized the open source release of the source code for the most popular mobile operating system ...

4 February 2010
09:45 GMT

Symbian^4 UI Concept Screenshots Emerge

The Symbian Foundation has already unveiled to the world the fact that it plans on making a series of major UI changes with the future releases if the Symbian platform, and now a series of UI concepts for Symbian^4 have made it into the wild. The Foundation made available on its developer website a series of documen...

15 January 2010
08:57 GMT

Symbian Foundation Adds QuIC to Its Member List

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...

30 October 2009
11:54 GMT

Symbian Foundation Welcomes New Board Member, Fujitsu

The Symbian Foundation has just added a new member to its board of directors, namely Fujitsu Limited. The company has joined the likes of wireless operators AT&T, Vodafone, NTT DOCOMO, chip makers ST Microelectronics NV and Texas Instruments, or mobile phone makers Samsung, Sony Ericsson, and Nokia, which are already...

29 October 2009
09:59 GMT

Symbian Horizon Now Available Publicly

The Symbian Foundation has announced today at the Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2009 (SEE 2009) the availability of Symbian Horizon, the application publishing program aimed at Symbian developers. According to the Foundation, developers now have the possibility to sign up for the program so as to have their apps in...

27 October 2009
08:28 GMT

Symbian Takes Another Step Towards Open Source

The Symbian Foundation announced on Tuesday that it had reached a new milestone in its move towards making the Symbian operating system open source with releasing the platform microkernel (EKA2) and with support for the development kit under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). According to the Foundation, the release o...

22 October 2009
04:52 GMT

China Mobile and the Symbian Foundation Announce Collaboration

China Mobile, the world's largest carrier when it comes to the number of subscribers, together with the Symbian Foundation announced today their collaboration on the improvement of the mobile ecosystem in the country. At the same time, the agreement between the two is also aimed at stimulating the development of...

9 September 2009
08:23 GMT

Symbian^4 to Bring Incremental and Revolutionary Changes

Symbian is changing. This is an assertion generally true for most of the mobile operating systems available on the market at the moment, yet, when it comes to Symbian, things seem to be a little confusing, as the changes haven't been detailed properly yet. However, the Symbian Foundation already announced plans ...

6 August 2009
09:06 GMT

Symbian Foundation Adds New Member, Nuance

Nuance Communications, Inc. announced on Monday that it had joined hands with the Symbian Foundation, a move that would offer it the possibility to work on the development of innovative mobile solutions so as to simplify and enhance the handset based on the Symbian platform. The OS, as many of you might already know,...

21 July 2009
09:44 GMT

Better Virus Filtration in the Future, Symbian Foundation Says

The Symbian Foundation admitted recently that it needed to improve the process of testing the applications digitally signed for the Symbian-based mobile phones due to the fact that it had allowed a botnet-building Trojan to slip through the filtering process. The Trojan horse program that managed to pass the security...

19 July 2009
06:01 GMT

Symbian Horizon, the Application-Publishing Program for Developers

The Symbian Foundation showcased on Thursday an application-publishing program called Symbian Horizon, which is slated for general availability sometime in October 2009. According to the Foundation, the Symbian Horizon is meant to provide a helpful hand to developers that work on applications for the Symbian OS, whil...

17 July 2009
01:51 GMT

Symbian Moves Closer to Open Source

The Symbian Foundation is already known to plan on moving its Symbian operating system into the open-source area, and it seems that the first steps in this direction have already been made, as the first open-source software package has just become public. The new package, which comes under the Eclipse Public Licence ...

10 July 2009
05:51 GMT

Symbian^2 to Enter Beta Testing

The Symbian Foundation is reported to have made great progress with the development of its operating system into open source, and Symbian^2, the first version of the platform to head in the new direction, is expected to enter the beta test phase within the following weeks. According to IT World, the platform should c...

3 July 2009
05:39 GMT

Symbian Foundation Adds New Member, Symsource

Symsource Limited announced today having joined lines with the Symbian Foundation, which offers one of the world's most proven, open and complete mobile software platform. The platform has at its base the Symbian OS, as well as software solutions from companies like Nokia, NTT DOCOMO, and Sony Ericsson, and also...

22 June 2009
06:59 GMT

Symbian Platform Release Plan Unveiled

David Wood from the Symbian Foundation has recently unveiled to the world the release schedule for the open-source Symbian platform versions that should head towards users during in 2009 and 2010. According to him, the Symbian Foundation plans to complete the development on the functionality of the Symbian^2, based o...

14 March 2009
03:53 GMT

Symbian Foundation Adds 14 New Members

14 new companies are announced to have joined the Symbian Foundation, this way transforming Nokia's Symbian camp into a bigger organization than Google's Open Hand Alliance, which includes 47 members since December last year. The new members of the team include HP, Qualcomm, MySpace and SanDisk, as well as ...

13 February 2009
03:59 GMT

Symbian Limited Taken Over by Nokia

Yesterday was a very big day for Nokia, turning into a coronation day for all the hard work and the planning that had been going on for quite some time. The official announcement was that Nokia had finally completed its offer for the acquirement of Symbian. This means that the Finnish company has finally satisfied al...

3 December 2008
04:00 GMT

Symbian Foundation Grows Stronger to Defy Android

Symbian Foundation, established by Nokia and other mobile giants with the goal of converting all Symbian-based mobile platforms into a single, open-source leading OS, has, as of today, the support of nine other companies. These are: Sharp, Opera Software, UIQ Technology, Acrodea, KTF, Brycen, Ixonos, HI Corporation a...

9 September 2008
10:48 GMT

Symbian Foundation Gathers Nine More Companies

The non-profit Symbian Foundation, presented by Nokia at the end of June and set to transform all the Symbian-based mobile platforms into a single open source one, has welcomed today nine new companies as members. These are: - America Movil, the largest mobile operator in Latin America and the fifth largest in the wo...

10 July 2008
03:17 GMT

Symbian OS Turns Open Source as Nokia Buys Symbian Limited

Nokia, the giant handset manufacturer, has strengthened its position as a leader in the mobile industry, by announcing it will buy all the shares of Symbian Limited, the company that owns Symbian OS. You might already know that Nokia, for the moment, has 47.9% of Symbian Limited's shares, with the rest being own...

24 June 2008
05:30 GMT


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