OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Microsoft Corp. could overtake Symbian Ltd. in mobile-phone operating system market share by 2009, according to research from ABI Research. The group believes that by 2009, mobile phones with Symbian operating systems could make up less than 50 percent of the overall...
HELSINKI, Finland-France Telecom and Nokia Corp. will partner to develop technology to allow wireless users to remotely access content from computers.France Telecom is the parent company of European wireless carrier Orange plc.The companies hope to offer products and services that provide remote access with...
MUNICH-Siemens AG unveiled an open e-mail push solution for a variety of wireless devices like mobile phones and personal digital assistants, building on open standards in accordance with the Open Mobile Alliance.It runs on operating systems such as Series 60, Symbian UIQ and MS...
LONDON-Digital rights management took center stage at the Symbian Expo Tuesday, with two new agreements to help content providers protect their wares.Mobile security company Discretix and e-commerce provider NDS released a DRM protection suite for mobile content.Dubbed OMA DRM V2.0, the updated product offers...
In their first significant cooperation for third-generation smart devices, Intel Corp., Nokia Corp. and Symbian Ltd. said they are working together to develop smart phones that will run on the Symbian operating system.Intel also agreed to collaborate with Symbian to develop a reference platform,...
HOUSTON-FrogPad and Gennum Corp. announced the launch of the iFrog portable Bluetooth-enabled keyboard.The solution is compatible with all PCs and Macs that support the Bluetooth Human Interface Device profile, which defines how a keyboard communicates with another Bluetooth device.Additionally, iFrog will have drivers for...
OYSTER BAY, N.Y.-Microsoft Corp. could overtake Symbian Ltd. in mobile-phone operating system market share by 2009, according to research from ABI Research.The group believes that by 2009, mobile phones with Symbian operating systems could make up less than 50 percent of the overall market,...
First there is a date. If sparks fly, the romance eventually may graduate into a union. But in the wireless business, not all mergers and acquisitions result from long-standing engagements, evidenced by several recent such deals. "It's not always a necessary condition," said Ned...
POLAND Lucent Technologies Inc. has collaborated with Novatel Wireless to supply third-generation UMTS PC card modems to Polish wireless carrier PTC. The operator said it has received initial shipments of the Merlin U530, with which it is launching its 3G service offering called ERA....
ESPOO, Finland—Nokia Corp. has launched the Nokia 6670 imaging smart phone for mobile professionals around the world.The Symbian operating system-based GSM phone will come in two versions—one for the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia markets and another for the Americas markets.The device features...
Vodafone announced plans for 10 new third-generation handsets expected to hit the European and Japanese markets in time for the upcoming holiday shopping season.The line-up consists of Sharp Corp.'s 802 and 902 models; the E1000, V980 and C980 from Motorola Inc.; the V800 from...
LA JOLLA, Calif.-BellStream Ltd. announced the release of Blogia, a mobile blogging tool, at the DemoMobile exhibition this week.The offering, which is available on Symbian smart phones and is compatible with leading blogging services and communities, comprises instant publishing and editing features and built-in...
Nokia Corp. today launched two new phones and acquired technology from a former Motorola Inc. subsidiary.Nokia announced the Nokia 9300 smart phone.The slim device opens to reveal a full keyboard and color screen. Features include one-touch access to personal information and office applications via...
Research In Motion and T-Mobile USA Inc. today launched the first BlackBerry device to feature a phone form factor, the BlackBerry 7100t."We think this is going to attract a whole new audience to BlackBerry," said Mark Guibert, vice president of corporate marketing at RIM.The...
Internet Service Provider EarthLink has added wireless voice provider to its resume with the release of the all-in-one color BlackBerry 7750 Wireless Handheld with wireless voice and e-mail service. The device works as a phone, e-mail device and Internet access device. It will be...
COLUMBUS, Ohio-FB-4 Inc. said its enterprise-grade security software and service for Symbian OS smart phones is now available.The security suite, which also features short message service blocking and data encryption, is available for direct download on smart phones. The product works with Samsung, Nokia,...
HELSINKI, Finland-Nokia Corp. announced it has now shipped 1 million N-Gage and N-Gage QD game decks since the platform was introduced 11 months ago."We're proud to have reached the 1-million milestone. Thanks to the enthusiastic consumer response to the N-Gage QD and our latest...
LONDON-Symbian Ltd. announced its sponsors for its Smartphone Show scheduled to take place Oct. 5-6 in London.The sponsors are Vodafone, UIQ Technology in association with Motorola Inc. and Sony Ericsson, Texas Instruments and Metrowerks. Carphone Warehouse is the show's retail sponsor.
Motorola Inc. and Motorola Japan Ltd. will work with NTT DoCoMo Inc. to develop a handset for business users on the Japanese carrier's high-speed third-generation FOMA network. The GSM/GPRS handset will be the first FOMA model that will work outside Japan. It is scheduled...
CHICAGO-Nokia announced it has teamed with Pointsec Mobile Technologies AB for an encryption solution designed to protect mobile data for enterprise users.The Pointsec for Symbian OS solution, which will encrypt data, including e-mail, short message service and multimedia messaging service messages, calendar, contacts and...
As North American wireless service providers increasingly tout value-added services in an attempt to differentiate themselves from the competition, widespread 32-kilobit subscriber identity module cards are being replaced with more capable 64k SIM cards, a trend that mimics what occurred in Europe a year...
Symbian has acknowledged that a Trojan virus is circulating via an illegal game download and may affect certain handsets running Symbian OS Series 60.Symbian warned that the illegal game, called Mosquito, has been tracked to illegal software download sites and peer-to-peer networks and was...
AT&T Wireless Services Inc. today began offering Nokia's 6620 smart phone for use on its EDGE network. The EDGE network enables consumers using the 6620 Symbian OS and Series 60 Platform-based phone to download games or news and information at up to three times...
Symbian Ltd. said its operating results for the first half of 2004 show global shipments of Symbian OS-based phones nearly doubled to 5 million, as compared with the first half of 2003 when 2.7 million units were shipped.Six months into this year, six Symbian...
