Symbian, the U.K.-based maker of the world's most popular smartphone operating system, is going through big changes. As well as being taken over by Nokia, the company is preparing to convert its ...

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, ...

Nokia said it will continue to sell smartphones using its legacy Symbian software for a long time after its first phones using Microsoft's Windows go on sale. Symbian is due to be replaced by ...

Symbian is an operating system that’s designed for mobile phones. But as we’ve recently seen, you can run the operating system on an x86 processor like the Intel Atom chip or on ARM based processors.

In a surprise move, Nokia announced Monday it’s taking back control of the open source Symbian project. Symbian is one of the oldest mobile phone operating systems around and has been a Nokia ...

Will the last one to leave please turn out the valot? This week, Finnish smartphone creator Nokia announced that it had shipped its final handset running the Symbian operating system. As the last ...

In the largest migration from a proprietary to an open source model ever, the most popular OS for mobile phones (over 330 million phones) in the world is now open source. The Symbian mobile OS which ...

Nokia has turned in its proposal for the user interface in Symbian^4, with the goal of developing an interface that can compete with the iPhone and Google’s Android OS. Nokia previewed the ...

MONTE CARLO, Monaco — Will the Symbian operating system, like competitor Android, help spawn a new generation of non-mobile phone consumer devices? “Yes, our code can do that,” responded Lee Williams, ...

Shipments of new Symbian smartphones from Nokia are rapidly dying, less than three years after the last time it topped the list of the world’s most-used mobile platforms. The rapid and stark decline ...