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• Maemo and Android: Symbian's open source rivals up the pressure

  BNET - 2009-11-04

  While Symbian continues to dominate the smartphone market it could soon be facing increasing competition from a new quarter - Maemo. There's no debating that the Symbian platform remains the daddy of the smartphone world: one in every two sold today carries the Symbian OS. But there could be clouds...

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• Nokia will invade U.S. market — will launch new phone with AT&T

  BNET - 2009-10-30

  Tags: Nokia Corp., Phone, Symbian Inc., Qualcomm Inc.

• Layar Gets Fresh Funding, Promises Multiple Realities

  BNET - 2009-10-29

  Layar, the augmented reality app that lets you see where stimulus money is being spent , among other things, has just gotten a fresh $1 million cash infusion from European investors. The Dutch company, which makes iPhone and Android apps that overlay data...

  Tags: app, Symbian Inc., stimulus money, reality app

• With smartphone rise, Qualcomm suddenly wants to be anybody's girlfriend

  BNET - 2009-10-29

  Tags: Mobile, Phone, Symbian Inc., Qualcomm Inc., Microsoft Visual Basic

• Symbian Dev program tries to limit fragmentation

  BNET - 2009-10-28

  By Tim Conneally , Betanews Though Symbian Foundation Executive Director Lee Williams publicly deemed Google's approach to spreading Android the "perfect storm of fragmentation," yesterday the Foundation launched the beta of its developer program for what looks to be a pretty fragmented...

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• Symbian Kick Starts Developer Program

  BNET - 2009-10-27

  Apps are becoming an increasingly important part of the smartphone market, thanks to the tremendous success of Apple's App Store for the iPhone and iPod Touch. Apple users have downloaded more than two billion mobile programs in about a year, but some developers are still grumbling over Apple's vetting process...

  Tags: Apple Inc., program, Mobile, app, foundation, Developer, Symbian Inc.

• Symbian Foundation launches app publishing program

  BNET - 2009-10-27

  LONDON--The Symbian Foundation announced the launch of its new Symbian Horizon publishing program here at the non-profit's Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2009 conference, promising developers a new channel to list, process and publish their mobile applications across a variety of app store partners. Speaking at a Nokia-sponsored media event...

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• Symbian Exchange and Exposition conference kicks off in London

  BNET - 2009-10-27

  The Symbian Foundation announced the release of its platform microkernel (EKA2) and supporting SDK at its Symbian Exchange and Exposition 2009 conference in London. This microkernel is essentially the heart of the Symbian OS, according to the organization. FierceDeveloper Editor Jason Ankeny is on the ground across...

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• Qualcomm Launches Open Source Center

  BNET - 2009-10-26

  In a sign of the importance of the QulC, the company's board of directors named Rob Chandhok president of the innovation center. Chandhok is senior vice president of software strategy for Qualcomm CDMA Technologies. In unveiling the QulC Monday, Qualcomm said it had designated a group of...

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• Symbian is getting totally awesomely open

  BNET - 2009-10-26

  When I look at the way Symbian Foundation and it's employees talk in public about the development and future plans of their platform, I am constantly pleasantly surprised. Symbian Foundation is pretty happy to tell everyone around, that right now they are just a small new star-up. And, despite the...

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