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  Symbian Foundation today announced that they’ll no longer develop the Symbian platform but would rather become a simple licensing body. This decision comes after the non-profit organisation failed to capture attention of phone manufacturers except Nokia. However, this does not mean the end of the world’s widely used smartphone OS. Nokia issued a separate [...]

  Symbian Foundation has confirmed that Lee Williams, Executive Director of the organization has stepped down from his position, effective immediately. The reason stated for the resignation is for “personal reasons” but considering the current state of Symbian OS in the market, the actual reason could be much more than personal. Tim Holbrow, Symbian Foundation’s [...]

  Symbian, world’s most widely used platform has gone open source. Symbian Foundation, who owns the platform has released the source code of the OS for developers to fiddle with. This important step could mark Symbian’s future of Symbian that although is in existence for over 10 years but has failed to capitalize to new-age [...]

  Symbian Foundation is yet to start its operations but the open source Symbian OS is already getting some attention. Last week 14 companies including HP, MySpace joined the foundation and according to Executive Director, Lee Williams by the end of the year, around 400 to 700 members are expected join the foundation. That’s a [...]