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Tuesday's big announcement, that several major mobile platforms Symbian, UIQ, Series 60 and MOAP are to be pooled into one open-sourced ber-platform, came out of the blue.
IBM has released a new version of its Lotus Expeditor software, designed to build applications and mashups that move freely from the desktop to mobile platforms.
It's easy to sneer at notebook manufacturers while battery recalls seem to be a near-daily occurrence, but that's going to look like a minor issue if your mobile phone decides to catch fire in your shirt pocket.
Symbian, Sony Ericsson and Motorola claim they are confident Nokia's acquisition of Trolltech will leave them unscathed, despite analyst suggestions to the contrary.
Given the hype around anything with a single-letter prefix m-commerce, e-learning, iPhone last year's speculation over a Google "gPhone" sent the blogosphere into overdrive. The Android mobile phone platform that Google actually launched, however, took things in quite a different direction.
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In October, Yahoo ran an Open Hack Day event in Bangalore, hosted by one of the company's co-founders, David Filo. Two hundred local developers were invited to a 24-hour code-a-thon to combine their own ideas with mashed-up services from Yahoo's own library of APIs.
Sony Ericsson's M600i is a unique-looking Symbian-based smartphone with a great deal of business apps to keep you productive when you're on the road.
The 3230 continues Nokia's run of style-plus-substance phones, offering a 1.2-megapixel camera, video editing and a positively lush-looking screen.
With the choice of Bluetooth, infrared and USB connectivity, you'll have no trouble transfering photos and videos taken with this Symbian-based smart phone to your PC.
Developers are to get access to the handheld operating system, in a move that the company hopes will encourage the creation of more applications.
Want a phone that lets you take your office applications and Web browsing with you and a camera to boot? If you're not fashion conscious the Nokia 9500 might just be your answer. Read our Australian review.
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