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Symbian handset shipments to reach 180m by 2014, despite increasing popularity of emerging OS platforms, claims research

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, Juniper says that the platform faces strong competition in a smartphone marketplace

Myriad joins Symbian Foundation

Myriad, a global specialist in mobile technology with software in over 2 billion phones, today announced that it has joined the Symbian Foundation.

Symbian Foundation launches beta site offering code, tools, services and forums to new members

The Symbian Foundation today announced the start of its beta site test programme. The site includes a full developer offering which includes platform release information, council charters, wikis, forums as well as access to the SDK, SCM (Mercurial),

Symbian lays out plans for OS development

Two releases each year, five platforms in development at once

Symbian CTO Dave Wood has revealed Symbian's development plans in a post on the Symbian Foundation's website.

Emoze provides Facebook on any mobile device

Emoze, the free mobile, push email service, now allows Symbian users to add their Facebook messaging in combination with any number of email messaging systems, to their favourite mobile device. Java and Windows Mobile users will also be

Swanbay Mobile launches mobile video application

Swanbay Mobile has launched an 'advanced' mobile video application for the Symbian platform, which is claimed to offer Symbian Smartphone users outstanding video quality combined with a simplified user experience.

Symbian and Cicero collaborate to enable Voice Call Continuity on Symbian OS

Cicero Networks, a provider of communications solutions for fixed mobile convergence and Symbian, the specialist in open operating systems for mobile phones, have today announced a proof-of-concept for voice mobility across multiple networks on FreeWay-Symbian's IP communications architecture on

Mobile heavyweights to unify Symbian software platform

Foundation established to provide royalty-free open platform