Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. will later this month begin selling its first smart phones based on the Symbian operating system, it said Wednesday. The South Korean cell-phone maker will put on sale its ...

Looking to speed up browsing on the Symbian platform, Opera Software released on Wednesday Opera Mobile 10.1 for Symbian/Series 60 phones, offering faster JavaScript performance, the company said.

Most people don’t think twice about the operating system that’s going to power their new PC — their minds have already been wired for Windows, Mac OS X or Linux. Similarly, most people don’t think ...

Nokia launched an updated version of its Symbian^3 mobile operating system on Tuesday, along with two phones running the software, the X7 and the E6. The launches are a sign that Nokia hasn’t ...

Samsung's i8910 Omnia HD smartphone runs the Symbian OS The Symbian OS is found on almost half the smarphones in the world and it is now all in the open source realm. That doesn't mean you are going ...

Nokia also announced its intent to acquire the remaining 52 percent stake in Symbian Ltd. that it doesn't already own for a price tag of roughly $410 million. Symbian, a mobile operating system and ...

The mobile operating system Symbian has been completely open-sourced, comfortably within the two-year timeframe set for the migration project in 2008. On Thursday, the Symbian Foundation — the not-for ...

Q&A For a man staring down Microsoft, Google, and Apple, Symbian's Nigel Clifford doesn't have the deer-in-the-headlights look as much as you might expect. Perhaps because, at the moment, those three ...

newsmaker Last week, the Symbian Foundation announced that it had completed the open-sourcing of its mobile operating system--the largest such migration in software history. ZDNet Asia's sister site, ...

On Thursday, the Symbian Foundation announced that it had completed the open-sourcing of its mobile operating system--the largest such migration in software history. ZDNet UK spoke to Lee Williams, ...

One of the brave but unsuccessful plays from Nokia during their glory years was the N-Gage, an attempt to merge a Symbian smartphone and a handheld game console. It may not have managed to dethrone ...