Symbian welcomed the availability of Nokia's N72, a sleek addition to Nokia's N series range of phones with high-performance multimedia functionality at its core. The Nokia N72, based on Symbian OS v.8.1 and S60 software, has started shipments to key markets world...

Symbian welcomed the availability of Nokia's Symbian OS-based Nokia 9300, the first business device on a US operator network with BlackBerry Connect. The Nokia 9300 is now available in the U.S. through Cingular Wireless and features the popular BlackBerry wireless...

A recently published round-up of useful Symbian applications that are all open source confirms that, while tracking down open source applications for Symbian isn't a cakewalk, there are rich pickings for those who persevere.

Openwave Systems Inc. , the leading provider of open software products and services for the communications industry, today announced a strategic reseller agreement with Thumbspeed Inc., a leading developer and publisher of mobile applications, to enable Openwave t...

Cyril Houri, founder and CEO of Mexens Technology, announced today the hard launch of Navizon, the world's first software based, peer produced, wireless positioning network. Navizon is a software system which can be loaded onto a mobile device to provide its user...

ThunderHawk Symbian Series60 (S60) Edition complies with Symbian interface guidelines while offering the same features and functionality users have come to expect from ThunderHawk, according to Bitstream. It is similar to browsing on the desktop because ThunderH...

Symbian has welcomed Nokia's announcement that it has introduced three new Symbian OS-based phones to its Nseries range of high performance multimedia devices. Symbian develops Symbian OS, the market-leading open mobile operating system for advanced mobile phones,...

The combination of Nokia's slim, connectivity-rich enterprise devices, the world's most popular smartphone platform, Series 60, and Good's award-winning, enterprise-class wireless messaging and corporate application platform will provide mobile business users wi...

The latest advancement to embrace these two innovative platforms is the old, yet new again interactive fiction (IF), a fusion of books and technology. Readers can interact with characters from the convenience of their Symbian supported cell phone and Windows Mobil...

A new offering on the market for secure applications running from mobile devices is offered by German company BeSeQure. Their solution works with Windows Mobile 5.0 as well as Blackberry and Java. Their implementation offers entire end-to-end security built on di...

'The Forum Nokia PRO Symbian Zone is an exclusive opportunity created by Symbian and Nokia for members of the PRO community to gain access to the new Symbian OS Library for Application Developers online,' said Bruce Carney, Head of Developer Marketing and Services...

Intellisync emphasized its commitment to Symbian OS today by announcing the availability of Intellisync Instant Messaging, a wireless corporate IM solution for Symbian OS smartphone users.

What the company is calling a 'flagship' UMTS smartphone is Wi-Fi enabled, has a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus and features a new hardware keyboard beneath the flip-down keypad. The phone will start shipping during Q1 of 2006.

Jarno Niemela of F-Secure in Finland has identified Cardtrap.A, a malicious SIS file trojan that tries to disable large number of system and third party applications and installs Windows malware on the phone memory card of Symbian OS smartphones.

Mobile games publisher Telcogames and video games publisher Codemasters today announced a deal to bring a number of classic games titles to the new generation of Symbian Smartphones.

Symbian said its operating system was installed in 7.8 million phones, compared with 2.6 million a year ago. Total first-half shipments were 14.5 million, up 191 percent from the previous year.

Aimed at the business market, the M1000 is compatible with international mobile networks including W-CDMA, GSM and GPRS networks as well as public wireless LANs. It provides POP and IMAP email capability and allows users to open and view Microsoft Word, Microsof...

DataViz will be extending its Documents To Go and RoadSync to the Symbian OS ecosystem, thus giving suitably equipped mobile phone users the ability to access their Microsoft Word documents. With smartphones based on Symbian OS, users have secure and wireless acce...

Handango yesterday announced a new version of Handango InHand for Symbian - an intelligent, device-resident download client for smartphones and wireless handhelds.

This announcement signals Symbian's growing commitment to Symbian OS development in India, the company says. In 2003 Symbian established an Offshore Development Centre (ODC) in Bangalore, in partnership with MphasiS Technologies with a commitment to developing a S...

Symbian is licensing source codes for Futuremark Corporation's current SPMark04 product and two forthcoming handheld benchmark products, and is also joining Futuremark's handheld benchmark development program.

Symbian Limited has released its unaudited financial and operational figures for the first quarter ended 31st March 2005.

The Board of Symbian yesterday announced the appointment of Nigel Clifford to the post of Chief Executive Officer, replacing David Levin who left in April. Clifford has wide experience of successful leadership across a number of sectors, including the technology s...

The latest series of Nokia multimedia phones are based on Symbian OS, the world's most popular operating system for advanced mobile phones. Symbian attributes this success to its open-standards approach.

Sony Ericsson points out that there are five Java Platform versions used for the company's feature and mass-market phones, and two for its smartphones. By making Sony Ericsson's Java Platform Strategy public to the developer community, the company aims to help dev...

The Nokia 3650, 6600, and 6630 are all vulnerable to 52 new trojan viruses, which anti-virus specialist SimWorks says are 'cracked' versions of popular Symbian applications such as BitStorm, BugMe!, Cosmic Fighter, 3D Motoracer and SplashID.