What a long, strange trip it's been, and now it's almost over. Nokia may not be done building and selling Symbian smartphones, but at least now it can wipe its hands of Symbian development as of ...

Top mobile phone maker Nokia moved to take control of the world’s leading cellphone software group, Symbian, on Monday, drawing a line in the sand between the Finnish firm and rival Microsoft. (MSNBC ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's most popular smartphone operating system, Symbian, aims to retain its lead in the increasingly crowded market by focusing on easing the use of its the software for ...

The Symbian Foundation has released its first open-source software package, the first step in the organisation's plan to eventually open source the entire Symbian mobile operating system. The Symbian ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj will assume full control of the Symbian operating system, retaking management of a key asset which it had given to the open source community to run only a few years ago.

Symbian, the UK-based maker of the world's most popular smartphone operating system, is going through big changes. As well as being taken over by Nokia, the company is preparing to convert its closed ...

Nokia, Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO announced today their intent to unite Symbian OS™, S60, UIQ and MOAP(S) to create one open mobile software platform. Together with AT&T, LG Electronics, ...

NTT DoCoMo, Japan’s largest mobile operator, Thursday said it has developed a common software platform that can run on both the Linux and Symbian operating systems used in its 3G mobile phones. Three ...

Symbian has licensed a protocol from Microsoft to allow users of mobile phones based on the Symbian operating system to synchronize e-mail and other personal data with servers running Microsoft’s ...

HELSINKI, Finland -- Nokia Corp. is buying the consortium that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, in hopes of blunting the influence of ...

British mobile phone software maker Symbian unveiled on Wednesday a new version of its operating system that supports high resolution cameras and three-dimensional games graphics. The software, which ...

Symbian Ltd. is taking its operating software for smart phones downmarket with a new focus on high-volume, low-cost phones for the mass market, and a renewed emphasis on security, it said Wednesday.