Symbian News & Articles

Most of us probably don't have any type of security 1.0 for our collection of mobile devices. But the threat of attack is growing as hackers and scammers look to get at our data or compromise our details from our phones.

With the drama building over the week as a decision loomed, HP has taken the halfway route and decided to offer up its WebOS and the ENYO app framework to the open source community.

With the popularity of smartphones and tablets in both enterprise and consumer settings, mobile phones, tablets and other portable devices have become a big part in the professional's job search arsenal.

Smartphones and tablets are now a mainstay in the enterprise setting, and yet most carriers are moving toward capped bandwidth plans rather than unlimited schemes. With media-rich websites resulting in soaring data costs, a business' or user's best bet is to minimize data consumption through compression. The Opera Mini 6.5 release promises to save up to 90% of bandwidth.

Hot on the heels of Software AG's (news, site) acquisition of Terracotta, the company has announced the acquisition of Metismo for its cross-platform mobile devlopment environment.

Both Apple (news, site) and Nokia (news, site) have reported their financial quarterly figures, can you guess which one is the happier?

Nokia (news, site) and its Symbian smartphone operating system might be losing market share in the US, but Symbian still holds some considerable market share in Europe and Asia. Nokia has made it easier for content publishers to turn their websites into content-based applications with the Ovi App Wizard.

In the US markets, Android has fast overtaken other smartphone operating systems in terms of market share. Symbian still leads the game in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan), but analysts expect the platform to cede the top spot to Android within the year.

The smartphone market, once the domain of Nokia (news, site) and its Symbian series mobile operating system, has been radically rattled with the game-changing iPhone and Android. While Nokia has consistently stuck with its Symbian OS and the upcoming MeeGo, there has been speculation that the Finnish company might be considering a switch, particularly since its new CEO Stephen Elop took the top job in late 2010. Now, with a leaked memo supposedly from Elop, it does seem that Nokia might just make the jump.

Qik, the popular mobile video streaming service, has excited BlackBerry users by releasing a client for the BlackBerry Bold and BlackBerry Pearl. Having Qik on your mobile phone turns your phone into a mobile video streaming device.

Qik users can employ the service to show videos from conferences and events, as well as to reach out to friends and colleagues.

Handango, a provider of smartphone applications for various mobile platforms, has recently released its First Half 2008 Handango Yardstick, a trend report about smartphone content and applications. Games and entertainment applications are the big winners so far this year, as people turn from productivity to time wasting. The games category leaped from fourth place at year-end 2007 into the second spot behind the entertainment category — for the first time in Yardstick’s history.