Announcing the Symbian Foundation

At same time that it announced an offer to acquire the remaining shares of Symbian Limited that it does not already own, and one day after it announced the acquisition of Plazes, Nokia teamed up with Sony Ericsson, Motorola and NTT DOCOMO to announce the formation of the Symbian Foundation.

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Nokia to Acquire Symbian Limited

Nokia, which announced an agreement to acquire Plazes yesterday, has made another acquisition announcement. In this latest acquisition attempt, Nokia, which already owns about 45% of Symbian Limited, made a “cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own”.

Nokia to Acquire Plazes

Nokia, the mobile phone giant, has announced an agreement to acquire Plazes AG. Plazes AG, based in Zurich, Switzerland, operates Plazes.com, which is a social networking website that allows its members to “update their location through their laptop or mobile phone, and update their online presence with their current, past and future whereabouts”.

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Mobile Application Developer survey - have your say!

VisionMobile is conducting a new survey for mobile application developers. Have you developed an application for Symbian, BREW or Java? Love or hate your OS? We want to hear what you have to say! Developers who complete the survey are entered into a competition to win an Amazon voucher worth $1000 - enough to get […]

Introducing LinuxBSDos.com

For more than 4 months, we’ve been working on another Web site for all Open Source enthusiasts, and we are happy to announce that most of the work as been completed and ready for public consumption. As hard core Linux and BSD evangelists, we have always wanted to provide a place where we could promote […]

Android Developer Challenge I Winners Slide Deck

A Slide Deck of 46 of the 50 winning applications in the Android Developer Challenge I has been released by Google. It is a graphical equivalent of the list that you will find here. Recall that authors of 4 of the winning applications chose to remain anonymous.

Verizon Joins the Limo Foundation

“LiMo Foundation, a global consortium of mobile leaders delivering an open handset platform for the whole mobile industry, and Verizon Wireless, the builder and operator of the most reliable wireless network in the U.S., announced today that Verizon has joined LiMo as a Core member and will fill the final seat on LiMo’s board of […]

How Google Killed Microsoft’s Bid for Yahoo

We all know that for months, Microsoft tried to gobble up Yahoo, and that Google, the reason Microsoft went after Yahoo in the first place, was not going to sit by and let that happen. Ultimately, Microsoft walked away from it all. But what role did Google play in thwarting Microsoft’s bid?

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Android Developer Challenge II

The 50 winning projects from the Android Developer Challenge I are eligible for participation in the Developer Challenge II, which will launch after the first handsets built on the (Android) platform become available in the second half of 2008.

Android Developer Challenge I Winners

More than 1700 projects were entered into the Android Developer Challenge (ADC). However, only 50 will be selected to receive various cash projects and be qualified to enter the second and last challenge. You will find a listing of some of the submitted projects here.

Android Developer Challenge I Entries:

According to Google, there were more than 1700 entries in the (Android) Developer Challenge I, but it’s been very difficult trying to secure access to the list of entries. The tables below contain just a small fraction of the entries, most of which were submitted to this site by the respective project author(s).

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Android Video Demo

We’ve all seen video demos of Android running on reference platforms, but no matter how many times we’ve seen it, any Android demo still manages to grab attention, especially at a time when news is scarce. So here we bring you another video, courtesy of the BBC, of Android showing off some of its polish […]

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