Today we finally learned what that countdown was all about – the Symbian operating system is, as of today, fully open sourced. This is a major announcement, as it means that any company or individual can take the Symbian platform and make it whatever they want, for any device – be it a smartphone, netbook, [...]
I woke up this morning to an avalanche of people telling me about an article published in the Guardian stating that Nokia is about to release an Android-powered device in September during Nokia World. For the better part of these few hours of a Monday morning, the news has been all over my Twitter timeline [...]
Nokia have had their share of history supporting open source. Examples are their different projects at the Nokia Research Center, their Internet Tablets running the Maemo operating system, and the involvement in Symbian Foundation. Their focus on open source is therefore being more and more extended. Today Nokia announced that their implementation of Multi-view Video [...]
One of the bad things about living in Texas is that my time is off from Europe, so I’m usually the last one to hear about massively big announcements, such as the one that Nokia made earlier today. Nokia will be purchasing the remaining shares of Symbian, and bringing the entire company under Nokia control/ownership. [...]
