Samsung Electronics said Monday that it's licensed the Symbian operating system for use in future wireless devices including "smart phones." The licensing agreement gives Symbian more momentum in its ...

The first version of Symbian to offer native Wi-Fi support was launched on Wednesday. Version 9.3 of the mobile operating system is an update release, and according to Symbian’s vice president of ...

Nokia says its Linux-based Maemo operating system is the future of its high-end smartphones, ending hope for Symbian OS to reign supreme. The change emphasizes how far behind the world’s largest ...

Still the largest operating system in terms of smartphones, the Symbian Foundation has reorganised itself for the new world of Android, iPhone, Maemo, Brew, Windows Mobile and Linux by freely ...

Nokia also announced its intent to acquire the remaining 52 percent stake in Symbian Ltd. that it doesn't already own for a price tag of roughly $410 million. Symbian, a mobile operating system and ...

Will the last one to leave please turn out the valot? This week, Finnish smartphone creator Nokia announced that it had shipped its final handset running the Symbian operating system. As the last ...

LONDON — The Symbian Foundation has outlined aggressive plans for the release over the next two years of its open source software, as well as plans for its S60 operating system. The speed-up comes ...

Yesterday the folks behind the Symbian smartphone operating system announced that the platform had gone open source. Now it looks like Symbian may be planning to move beyond the smartphone and port ...

MUNICH, Germany — Software vendor Symbian today (July 12) announced the availability of its latest mobile device operating system software. Symbian OS v9.3 incorporates an incremental improvement over ...

*Sometimes I think that EVERY dead medium dies like this – for reasons that may seem easy for pundits to explain in retrospect – "the iPhone appeared" – but are, in reality, incredibly complicated, ...

Nokia launched an updated version of its Symbian^3 mobile operating system on Tuesday, along with two phones running the software, the X7 and the E6. The launches are a sign that Nokia hasn’t ...

MacFixIt reader Bruce Brandligt has a simple tip for moving .sis (Symbian OS) files from a Mac to a Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone: "I own a Nokia 3650 Bluetooth enhanced phone which is based on the ...