The group behind the world's most popular smartphone operating system - Symbian - is giving away "billions of dollars" worth of code for free. The Symbian Foundation's announced that it would make its ...

Symbian, the mobile operating system that's huge in Europe but an afterthought elsewhere, has received a boost from its friends at home. Symbian has been declared "The Embedded Operating System for ...

Will the last one to leave please turn out the valot? This week, Finnish smartphone creator Nokia announced that it had shipped its final handset running the Symbian operating system. As the last ...

Nokia-Intel Linux lovechild is welcome in the "risk" end of mobile market, says Symbian Foundation exec director The open sourced Symbian OS is the biggest mobile operating system on the planet - a ...

We're about to see what full-blown competition for the future of the computing industry looks like when multiple players get a shot to make an impact. The next great operating systems wars are about ...

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, ...

Symbian, whose operating system is best known for driving sophisticated wireless "communicators", is to make low-end, mass-market mobile phones more central to its strategy. The company tends to keep ...

The Symbian Foundation has released its first open-source software package, the first step in the organization's plan to eventually open-source the entire Symbian mobile operating system. The Symbian ...

Topping off a week full of touch-screen smartphone news from Apple, Samsung and Nokia, Symbian today released a short video demonstrating some of the features and aesthetics of their touch-based ...