Yahoo keeps betting heavily on its mobile offering. In its latest move, they’ve announced a strategic mobile partnership with HTC (High Tech Computer) – the single largest manufacturer of Windows Mobile-based smartphones. According to the agreement, HTC will preload Yahoo! mobile services on many of the company’s different mobile phone models. Still, operators are the…
Seagate brings its DAVE technology to Symbian
Seagate Technology has announced it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program. As a Platinum Partner, Seagate will support the growing Symbian smartphone market with its new DAVE (Digital Audio Video Experience) technology platform, ensuring seamless interoperability with Symbian OS-powered devices. The point of the DAVE platform is that it delivers 10-20 GB of hard drive…
AdStar to trial mobile ads using S60 platform
AdStar announced plans to use Symbian S60 software platform to trial an end-to-end “private label” advertising service to enable the delivery of mobile ads. AdStar will integrate Nokia’s mobile technologies into its ad management services, which will be enhanced for mobile distribution. This collaboration will result in a private-label service for various media channels including,…
Openwave extends MIDAS, Mobile Browser Symbian smartphones
Openwave Systems Inc. announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to extend its Mobile Integrated Dynamic Application System (MIDAS), a mobile AJAX platform, and Openwave Mobile Browser, Mercury edition to the Symbian ecosystem. MIDAS, a mobile AJAX platform designed to enable the creation, customization and deployment of powerful new network enabled applications and…
BLStream joins Symbian Platinum Program; Extends Blogia to Symbian ecosystem
BLStream, a provider of mobile blogging solutions, announced that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for Symbian smartphones. As a Platinum Partner, BLStream is extending its Blogia mobile blogging solution to the Symbian ecosystem. For service providers and mobile operators, the Blogia mobile blogging client-server solution offers revenue stream…
Renesas’ new processor adds Symbian OS 9.3 support
Renesas Technology Europe announced that NTT DoCoMo, Renesas Technology, Fujitsu, Mitsubishi Electric and Sharp are developing SH-Mobile G2 single chip 3G platform that will support Symbian OS v9.3. Aimed at high end 3G smartphones, the upgraded processors address the need for a standard OS platform for advanced applications, and also the increased demand for multimedia…
Telecom Italia to drive advanced mobile market growth with S60
Nokia announced a software collaboration with Telecom Italia to simplify service deployment through the platform-based model, help Telecom Italia in implementing their service convergence strategy and increase the amount of S60 devices in Telecom Italia’s portfolio. Telecom Italia and S60 will work in close cooperation to support the advanced in-house service development in Telecom Italia…
Telefonica Moviles Espana selects Symbian OS for future smartphone roll-outs
Symbian Limited today announced a collaboration with Telefonica Moviles Espana to reinforce the role of Symbian OS in Telefonica’s mobile device portfolio. The collaboration will enable Telefonica Moviles Espana to offer new mobile devices and services more quickly to its customers by increasing the use of S60 and UIQ on Symbian OS as respective software…
Nokia and T-Mobile team up to mainstream S60
Nokia today announced a collaboration to strengthen T-Mobile’s capabilities to bring core services to market and improve the capability of S60 licensees to develop devices for T-Mobile. The collaboration is part of T-Mobile’s efforts to harmonize terminal software solutions within T-Mobile’s device portfolio. Through the collaboration, T-Mobile will have access to timely and customized S60…
Aztecsoft joins Symbian's Platinum Program
Aztecsoft Limited has announced that it has joined Symbian’s Platinum Program, to extend applications and platform solutions for mobile and convergence markets to the Symbian ecosystem.