Several major mobile phone and electronics manufacturers are banding together to create a single open mobile software platform standard based on the Symbian operating system. Several major mobile ...

The Symbian mobile operating system is getting a second life as the Symbian Foundation makes the smartphone platform open source. The lifeline will revitalize the platform, and has benefits for Nokia, ...

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 ...

Nokia also announced its intent to acquire the remaining 52 percent stake in Symbian Ltd. that it doesn't already own for a price tag of roughly $410 million. Symbian, a mobile operating system and ...

Samsung's i8910 Omnia HD smartphone runs the Symbian OS The Symbian OS is found on almost half the smarphones in the world and it is now all in the open source realm. That doesn't mean you are going ...

Symbian is hoping to encourage developers to offer interesting desktop applications on mobile phones by making it easier for them to certain port desktop applications to the Symbian operating system.

As if “openness” wasn’t already the key word of the year for mobile communications, Nokia took the concept a step further today, announcing plans to create an organization called the Symbian ...

CodeWarrior Development Studio is one of the most respected development environments in the wireless space. The software's stability and feature set allow C++ developers to easily write applications ...

In a display of commitment to Symbian Ltd.’s operating system for mobile phones, three major handset makers increased their investment in the company, and Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB made ...

Symbian has completed the process of open sourcing its entire code base, in advance of its June deadline. While the release is ahead of schedule, the first phones — expected to be out early next year ...

Analyst says Symbian, Android should combine into a single open source OS for mobile devices and predicts that will occur in three to six months As wireless computing mushrooms with new devices, ...

Swedish telecoms manufacturer Ericsson is planning to increase its stake in Symbian in order to prevent Nokia winning control of the smartphone operating system maker. Nokia is in the process of ...