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Articles tagged with: Symbian Foundation
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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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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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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Symbian to Launch its Own App Store Platform
The Symbian Foundation today previewed Symbian Horizon, an application-publishing program on schedule for general availability in October 2009. With Symbian Horizon, developers will receive assistance in building applications for Symbian devices and in placing those applications in the many global stores which reach Symbian customers, and will receive promotional assistance for bringing those applications to end users. more
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Nokia Secures European Loan for Symbian R&D
Nokia says that it has completed a EUR 500 million (US$630 million) loan agreement with the European Investment Bank (EIB). The five-year loan will be used to part-finance software research and development (R&D) projects Nokia is undertaking during 2009-2011 to make Symbian-based smartphones more competitive. more
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Worldwide Smartphone Sales Reached Its Lowest Growth Rate in Q3 '08
In the third quarter of 2008, the global smartphone market reached its weakest year-on-year growth since Gartner began tracking the industry. Worldwide smartphone sales to end-users totalled 36.5 million units in the third quarter of 2008, an 11.5 per cent increase from the same period in 2007. more
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Global smart phone shipments rise 28% - Apple Takes #2 Position
Despite the gloomy economic picture and the problems being experienced by some of the leading mobile handset vendors, global shipments of smart phones hit a new peak of just under 40 million units in Q3 2008, according to the latest estimates from leading analyst firm Canalys. more
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Nine New Members for the Symbian Foundation
Following Nokia's proposal to buy out its fellow shareholders in the Symbian mobile OS company and release it as an open source platform - the company has now announced that nine more companies have joined the Symbian Foundation. more
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Microsoft faces Pressure from Smartphone OS Alliances
NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- With the smartphone world increasingly shifting toward an open operating system model, Microsoft and its Windows Mobile face another obstacle in trying to penetrate the consumer market. more
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UPDATE: Nokia, Mobile Cos to Create Symbian Foundation
Nokia, Tuesday said it will acquire the remaining stake in Symbian it doesn't already own and with a range of partners create the Symbian Foundation, an open source model for the Symbian wireless operating system. more
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