Symbian is hoping to encourage developers to offer interesting desktop applications on mobile phones by making it easier for them to certain port desktop applications to the Symbian operating system.

The Symbian Foundation has been going through some rocky times recently, and today the group announced it is changing its role in relation to the Symbian mobile operating system. Instead of leading ...

The Symbian mobile operating system is getting a second life as the Symbian Foundation makes the smartphone platform open source. The lifeline will revitalize the platform, and has benefits for Nokia, ...

Nokia's new approach could greatly benefit the Symbian platform by making it more stable and attractive to operators, developers, and consumers Nokia on Tuesday announced it plans to acquire all of ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia Oyj will assume full control of the Symbian operating system, retaking management of a key asset which it had given to the open source community to run only a few years ago.