The joint venture aims to promote Psion's Epoc software as the operating system of choice for smartphones. Symbian hopes users will be attracted to the economy of using Epoc - which the alliance members claim uses less power and memory Microsoft's...
Microsoft - with its Windows CE OS - will increasingly focus on the lucrative mobile market, and the company has already identified Psion as a long-term threat because of its mobile expertise. Colly Myers, Symbian's CEO, highlighted the efficiency...
Such platforms may include open layers, such as the Symbian core OS, J2ME or the Windows CE core OS but they will still be more or less custom-built to suit the particular needs of the device. Some resource efficiency and robustness was sacrificed...
The Redmond-based company also announced a six-month, $995 (about £650) promotional price on kits for creating devices using Windows CE .Net and Windows XP Embedded. Analysts questioned whether Microsoft's decision to use the full .Net Framework in...
That combination means programmers will be able to use Visual Studio.Net, rather than more difficult, specialised tools, to build applications that run on Smartphones. Those ViewSonic Pocket PC devices will have the .Net Compact Framework burned...
Microsoft's figures show there is growing business usage of smartphones and Pocket PCs. He said this combined with the Compact Framework for its Visual Studio.Net developer tools will make it easier and more attractive for programmers write...
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