Nokia confirmed that Ballmer is personally lobbying senior executives to abandon their stake in rival handheld OS, Symbian. Motorola, Ericsson and Matsushita - all Symbian shareholders - are also being wooed.
Speaking at the Nokia conference in Prague this afternoon, Anssi Vanjaki, Executive VP, Nokia Mobile Phones, said: "This is our first product to utilise Symbian. Called the Nokia 9210, the device takes the form of a next generation Communicator...
UK handheld computer manufacturer Psion has agreed to sell its stake in Symbian, the wireless operating system maker, to Nokia. Nokia is expected to pay around £135m for Psion's 31.1 per cent stake in Symbian - £93.5m upfront followed by further...
For example, Symbian - which is closely aligned to the smart phone plans of vendors such as Fujitsu and Nokia - dominates European shipments at 60 per cent share in Q1 but registers just 6 per cent in North America, where PalmSource comes in with...
The two companies are scheduled to announce today at Microsoft's Mix '08 conference that Microsoft will write a version of Silverlight for Nokia's Series 60 (S60) smart phone software that runs on Symbian OS.
To facilitate the creation of the Foundation, Nokia said it intends to buy the remaining Symbian shares - for £209m - which it does not already own so it can acquire Symbian Ltd. As with the LiMo open mobile software alliance, The Symbian...