Archive for the ‘Symbian’ Category
Nokia Confirms Symbian to Fade Away
Mark Kurlyandchik, DailyTech, 3/28/2011 Introduces new typeface and branding in effort to move forward It’s no secret that, even before Nokia announced its “strategic partnership” with Microsoft, the most popular mobile OS on the planet, Symbian, was in the midst of a slow death. But the deal to bring Windows Phone 7 to Nokia devices [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Symbian, WinPhone · Tagged with: Nokia
iOS has second place in global mobile operating system market
MacNews, 3/8/2011 Google’s Android mobile operating system overtook RIM’s BlackBerry globally for the first time on a monthly basis in February according to web analytics company, StatCounter (http://www.statcounter.com). Its research arm StatCounter Global Stats finds that Android recorded 15.2% of the worldwide market compared to 14.5% for BlackBerry. Nokia’s Symbian still leads the global market [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Symbian · Tagged with: Nokia
Intel to Still Push MeeGo Without Nokia, Banks on Medfield for Smartphones
Brandon Hill, DailyTech, 2/15/2011 Intel is still keeping its eye on the [MeeGo] prize It seems as though Intel just can’t get any lovin’ these days. The company’s efforts to field an x86-based processor in the smartphone sector have yet to take off, Microsoft will be giving Intel some stiff competition courtesy of an ARM-compatible [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, Symbian, WinPhone · Tagged with: Nokia, Samsung
Android topples Symbian as world’s No. 1 mobile OS
Brad Reed, Network World, 1/31/2011 For the first time in its short history, Google Android is now the No.1 mobile operating system in the world, according to research firm Canalys. A new report from Canalys shows that 32.9 million Android-based phones shipped worldwide in the fourth quarter, eclipsing the 31 million Symbian-based phones that shipped [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, Symbian · Tagged with: AT&T, HTC, Linux, Motorola, T-Mobile, Verizon
Kony Solutions Raises $19.1 Million For Mobile Application Platform
Robin Wauters, TechCrunch, 1/18/2011 Kony Solutions, provider of a so-called ‘write once, run everywhere’ mobile platform and vertical market mobile solutions, this morning announced that it has secured $19.1 million in Series A financing from Insight Venture Partners, the investment firm that boasts stakes in companies like Twitter, Chegg, Six Waves, Datacore Software and HauteLook. [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian, WinPhone · Tagged with: Cloud, HTML5
Visa Mobile Contactless Payments Solution Certified for Commercial Use
MobileTechNews, 12/7/2010 Visa Inc. and Visa Europe1 today announced the commercial availability of mobile contactless payments enabled by DeviceFidelity’s In2Pay microSD solution. For the first time in Visa’s history, a mobile contactless payment solution is now included in the list of Visa compliant products available for potential commercial deployment by financial institutions in the U.S. [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Symbian · Tagged with: NFC
Nokia Will Put Near-Field Communications in Future Symbian Phone
Diana Ben-Aaron, Bloomberg, 11/9/2010 Nokia Oyj, the world’s largest maker of mobile phones, will put near-field communication capabilities in future phones in its Symbian line, Senior Vice President Jo Harlow said in an interview in Amsterdam today. The C7 model now on sale already has the hardware for NFC, which allows customers to use their [...]
In: Mobile Technology, Symbian · Tagged with: NFC
Windows Phone 7 Attracts Interest As Development Platform
Ryan Kim, GigaOM, 11/4/2010 Microsoft’s Windows Phone 7 is not out of the gate and yet it’s already doing a solid job convincing developers, advertisers and publishers that it has a future, according to a new report from Millennial Media. The independent ad network teamed with Stifel Nicolaus and Digiday on a survey of 500 [...]
In: Android, Blackberry, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Palm (HP), Symbian, WinPhone
Opera Mobile coming to Android
Stephen Shankland, CNET News, 10/14/2010 At a press conference here today, Opera announced it will release a beta version of Opera Mobile for Android within 30 days and showed off how it works. The company has two mobile browsers, the full-fledged Opera Mobile that renders Web pages on its own and the lighter-weight Opera Mini [...]
In: Android, Mobile Technology, Symbian, WinPhone
Fring matches Skype, intros FringOut for low-rate Android calls
Vlad Savov, Engadget, 10/5/2010 We didn’t think competition in the cheapo calls market was quite so intense, but here we are, with Fring and Skype gunning for each other with near-simultaneous launches. After Skype finally released its long-awaited Android app, Fring is countering with an Android rollout of its own FringOut service — an additional [...]
In: Android, iPhone, Mobile Technology, Symbian · Tagged with: Skype, WiFi