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• Nokia secures USD636m Symbian loan

  Strategy Eye - 2009-02-20

  Nokia has secured a USD636m loan from the European Investment Bank to make its Symbian operating system more competitive. The loan is designed to help fund R&D on Nokia's operating system over the next three years. ...

  Tags: Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Loan, Keyboards, Monitors & Displays, Research & Development, Operating Systems, Hardware, Peripherals, Components, Business Operations, Software, Symbian, Jasper Jackson

• Quickoffice Brings Office 2007 Documents to Your Symbian Phone

  BNET - 2009-01-30

  Good news for the four or five Symbian smartphone users out there (I kid, I kid): Quickoffice Premier 6.0 lets you view, edit, and create Office 2007 documents on any Symbian S60 handset. The suite supports Word, Excel, and PowerPoint files for Office 2007 and earlier. The...

  Tags: Microsoft Office 2007, Phone, Symbian Inc., Microsoft Office, Smart Phones, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word, Word Processors, Office Suites, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Rick Broida

• AT&T Hints At Replacing Java With Symbian In The Future

  Content Next - 2008-12-04

  For all the hype about the rise of operating systems, one more carrier is hinting at plans to pare down the number to just one or two OS choices for its company-branded device lineup. AT&T's Roger Smith, director of next-generation services, said Symbian might become the OS of choice...

  Tags: AT&T, AT&T Corp., Carrier, Companies, Java, Matt Kapko, Nokia, NYSE Euronext, Operating System, Operating Systems, Operators, Programming Languages, Software, Software Development, Software/Web Development, Symbian Inc., Technologies, Vodafone Group Plc.

• Nokia to complete Symbian acquisition this year

  Strategy Eye - 2008-11-26

  Nokia says its acquisition of UK software firm Symbian is on track to close this year, claiming that the open operating system will help it boost market share in the US. In June, Nokia offered to take over Symbian for...

  Tags: Acquisition, Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Mergers & Acquisitions, Corporate Law, Smart Phones, Linux, Investment, Finance, Business Operations, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Operating Systems, Software, Charlotte Eyre

• How Do Your Really Feel? Nokia, Symbian, Google And Microsoft All Get Dissed

  Content Next - 2008-11-21

  In a break from traditional conference etiquette, executives from Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Symbian and Nokia (NYSE: NOK), faced off today at the Open Mobile Summit in San Francisco, and let it be known exactly how they feel about each other. They even picked on Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT), despite the...

  Tags: Google Inc., Nokia Corp., Symbian Inc., Microsoft Corp., Linux, Cellular Phones, Operating Systems, Telecom & Utilities, Software, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Tricia Duryee

• Strategy Analytics: Nokia Makes Mobile OS a Commodity

  - 2008-07-02

  The Battle Shifts to Applications and Services BOSTON -- The Strategy Analytics Handset Component Technologies report, "Nokia Makes Mobile OS a Commodity: Symbian, Android and LiMo to Fight It Out," analyzes the announcement of the Symbian Foundation by Nokia, and how this deal will impact Symbian partners, as well...

  Tags: LiMo Foundation, MARKETING, mobile, Nokia Corp., SOFTWARE, Strategy Analytics, Symbian Inc.

• Nokia and Symbian Head For Open (Source) Water

  BNET - 2008-06-24

  When Nokia announced that it was ready to buy the outstanding 52 percent of mobile device OS vendor Symbian for about $410 million, the handset manufacturer's stock started heading up, and for good reason. Nokia decided that it would make the software royalty-free open source. In one move, it had...

  Tags: Nokia Corp., Handset, Symbian Inc., Microsoft Corp., Cellular Phones, Operating Systems, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Software, Erik Sherman

• CoWare Joins Symbian Platinum Partner Program to Enable Virtual Platform-Based Software Development for Symbian Smartphones

  - 2006-10-16

  The Combination of Symbian OS and CoWare Virtual Platform Will Shorten Development Cycles, Improve Productivity, and Lower Costs

  Tags: smart phone, software, software development, Symbian Inc.

• CeBIT 2006: Nero Announces Nero Sipps Mobile; VoIP Software for PDAs Facilitates Free Phone Calls via WLAN - Soon Also Available for Symbian

  - 2006-03-11

  Hanover, Germany -- Nero, leaders in digital media technology, announces the release of Nero Sipps Mobile at CeBIT 2006. With the expansion of its VoIP portfolio beyond the desktop-based Nero Sipps, Nero Sipps Essentials, and Nero Sipps VoIP Server packages, Nero will now be able to target mobile terminals with...

  Tags: mobile, PDA, phone, software, Symbian Inc., VoIP, WLAN

• Bitstream offers small, fast font rendering subsystem for Symbian OS mobile phones

  - 2005-08-01

  Bitstream joins Symbian Platinum Program Bitstream Inc. announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for data-enabled mobile phones, also known as smartphones, based on Symbian OSTM. As a Platinum Partner, Bitstream is extending font rendering technology and high-quality international fonts in...

  Tags: Bitstream, font, mobile, phone, SOFTWARE, Symbian Inc.