What a long, strange trip it's been, and now it's almost over. Nokia may not be done building and selling Symbian smartphones, but at least now it can wipe its hands of Symbian development as of ...

Top mobile phone maker Nokia moved to take control of the world’s leading cellphone software group, Symbian, on Monday, drawing a line in the sand between the Finnish firm and rival Microsoft. (MSNBC ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's most popular smartphone operating system, Symbian, aims to retain its lead in the increasingly crowded market by focusing on easing the use of its the software for ...

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 ...

Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS™, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, ...

Symbian has licensed a protocol from Microsoft to allow users of mobile phones based on the Symbian operating system to synchronize e-mail and other personal data with servers running Microsoft’s ...

Symbian, the UK-based maker of the world's most popular smartphone operating system, is going through big changes. As well as being taken over by Nokia, the company is preparing to convert its closed ...

NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, Thursday said it has developed a common software platform that can run on both the Linux and Symbian operating systems used in its 3G mobile phones. Three ...

British mobile phone software maker Symbian unveiled on Wednesday a new version of its operating system that supports high resolution cameras and three-dimensional games graphics. The software, which ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia will pay $410 million for the remaining shares in UK-based smartphone software maker Symbian and make its software royalty-free to other phone makers, in response to new ...

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 ...

Symbian Ltd. is taking its operating software for smart phones downmarket with a new focus on high-volume, low-cost phones for the mass market, and a renewed emphasis on security, it said Wednesday.