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Articles tagged with: Symbian
Symbian Foundation Launches App Store
The symbian Foundation has announced the launch of symbian Horizon, an app store for symbian developers. Users can now sign up for the program to have their applications listed in the symbian Horizon Directory, processed through symbian Signed, and published to a growing list of application store partners. more
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Smartphone Market Driven by Operating System Wars and Feature Migration
While iPhone shipments are growing quickly, smartphones based on the symbian operating system remain dominant and will continue to grow over the next several years, reports In-Stat. However, symbian will wane, resulting in a drop in net symbian-based smartphone shipments in 2014. more
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Symbian Releases More Source Code as Open Source
The symbian Foundation has announced a significant milestone in its plan to move the entire symbian platform into Open Source - the release of the platform microkernel (EKA2) and supporting development kit under the Eclipse Public License (EPL). more
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Adobe Announces Upgraded Flash Platform for Smartphones
Adobe Systems has announced a new variant of the Flash website software that it expects to be available on the majority of smartphones from early next year - excluding the Apple iPhone. more
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Symbian Handset Shipments to Reach 180 Million by 2014
Shipments of open source symbian handsets are expected to more than double over the next five years, a new report from Juniper Research has found. However, the platform faces strong competition in a smartphone marketplace which is increasingly targeting consumers and "prosumers" as well as corporate customers, with the result that its overall market share will remain virtually unchanged over that period. more
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New Mobile Platforms Drive Smartphone Growth Worldwide
While symbian devices such as the Nokia N70 and N95 continue to be popular handsets, analysis from mobile advertisign agency, AdMob finds that the iPhone OS, Android and webOS have gained marketshare over competing platforms in the last six months. more
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China Mobile Signs Cooperation Agreement with the Symbian Foundation
China Mobile Communications Corporation (CMCC), the state owned parent company to China Mobile has announced that it is to collaborate with the symbian Foundation on a series of initiatives to improve the mobile ecosystem in China and to stimulate the development of the market for the home-developed TD-SCDMA standard. The partnership also marks symbian's Chinese website launch, broader focus on the Chinese market and China Mobile's determination to support the symbian Foundation. more
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BlackBerry Becomes Dominant Platform on Handango Apps Store
Mobile applications retailer, Handango is reporting that for the first time ever, BlackBerry displaced Windows Mobile to become the dominant platform within the Handango content catalog, constituting 44% of all apps sold in the first half of 2009, up from its 31% share in 2008. more
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What Does Nokia Pact Mean For Windows?
When Microsoft and Nokia last week announced a smart phone alliance that they called the first of its type for either, the competition in this market escalated. So tough has this field become that several analysts say the pact signals the demise of Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system. more
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Nokia Adding Support for Microsoft Software to its Smartphones
Nokia has joined forces with Microsoft to port Microsoft Office Mobile and Microsoft business communications, collaboration and device management software to Nokia's symbian based smartphones. Starting from next year, Nokia intends to start shipping Microsoft Office Communicator Mobile on its smartphones, followed by other Office applications and related software and services in the future. more
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