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Symbian Growth Slows, But Still It Is Much Bigger Than The iPhone - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 02 Sep 2008 12:19 PM PST

Depending on who you ask, they’ll say Symbian is either up or down. In its second-quarter results released today, it shipped 19.6 million units, a 5 percent increase over the…

Android And Symbian Sitting In a Tree: Suggested Merger Pretty Unlikely - 2 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Jul 2008 11:57 AM PST

Analyst J Gold and Associates has come out with a prediction that Symbian and Android will begin merging into one open source OS within 3-6 months, and it’s gotten a…

Going Open Source Not Enough To Attract Non-Paid Developers To Symbian - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 23 Jul 2008 02:23 PM PST

One of Nokia’s (NYSE: NOK) reasons for making Symbian open source was to drive innovation by attracting developers. Symbian is still associated almost exclusively with Nokia, and the organization is…

Symbian “Happy To Collaborate” With Google - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 16 Jul 2008 03:22 AM PST

Android developers and Google (NSDQ: GOOG) engineers may be frustrated with how Google’s mobile platform is developing, but it seems that its mythic powers to inspire fear in its competitors…

Nokia’s Symbian Deal A Boost For Google - 2 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 30 Jun 2008 04:50 AM PST

Nokia’s decision to buy the rest of Symbian it didn’t already own and set it free was supposed to help it better deal with competition from open-platform rivals such as…

Nokia Sets Symbian Free: The Google Effect - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 24 Jun 2008 06:46 AM PST

So Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is setting Symbian free. On the practical side of things, Nokia was expected to buy out its partners at some point, since as the largest maker…

UPDATED: Nokia Offers $410 Million To Buy Up Partners’ Stakes In Symbian - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 23 Jun 2008 08:50 PM PST

UPDATED: Nokia (NYSE: NOK) wants it all. The Finnish handset maker said today that it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian that it…

Symbian Shipments Fall In Q1, But Is Confident About Current Period - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 22 May 2008 11:16 AM PST

Symbian shipments fell 21 percent in the first quarter, compared to the prior quarter, leading people to question whether the operating system, mostly used by Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Sony…