Symbian News Desk

Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc. (QuIC) and the Symbian Foundation today announced that QuIC, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Qualcomm Incorporated, has joined the Symbian Foundation and has been appointed to the Symbian Foundation board of directors. QuIC will support the Symbian Foundation with active participation on the board of directors and each of the four councils that govern the development of the Symbian platform. QuIC's charter is to focus on optimizing open source software for use with Qualcomm technology. QuIC brings to the Symbian Foundation a wealth of knowledge and expertise in open source and, as a Symbian Foundation board member, QuIC is committed to working with its fellow board members for Symbian's continued commercial success. QuIC joins wireless opera... (more)

Bluetooth SIG Opens Nominations for Best of CES Awards

Wireless Technology Journal The Bluetooth Special Interest Group (SIG) today opened nominations for its 5th Annual Best of CES 2010 Awards. The program will feature the most innovative Bluetooth enabled devices of the year with one overall winner unveiled at an awards reception held the evening of Friday, January 8, during the 2010 International Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The SIG’s... (more)

Nokia E63 QWERTY Will Be Available with OS Symbian S60

Nokia announced it will bring a U.S. optimized version of the Nokia E63 to the North American market. The Nokia E63 will be available in the coming weeks. The Nokia E63 combines a QWERTY keypad, 3G network speeds and the open source operating system Symbian S60 3rd Edition, allowing consumers the ability to download third party applications to customize their device. The Nokia E63 also c... (more)

Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 Mobile Phones Based On Symbian OS

Symbian welcomed the announcement of the Nokia N85 and Nokia N79 multimedia computers. These latest mobile phones are based on S60 and Symbian OS v9.3, the latest shipped version of Symbian OS. Symbian OS v9.3 is optimized for convergence with performance and feature enhancements which bring the highest level of power efficiency and platform security to a mobile phone. The Nokia N85 is d... (more)

Openwave and Thumbspeed to Offer Mobile Instant Messaging

REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Dec. 19 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- 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 to offer Thumbspeed's instant messaging (IM) client for both operators ... (more)