Top mobile phone maker Nokia moved to take control of the world’s leading cellphone software group, Symbian, on Monday, drawing a line in the sand between the Finnish firm and rival Microsoft. (MSNBC ...

What a long, strange trip it's been, and now it's almost over. Nokia may not be done building and selling Symbian smartphones, but at least now it can wipe its hands of Symbian development as of ...

When Nokia acquired the former Symbian Software Limited in 2008 a new independent non-profit organization called the Symbian Foundation was established. One of its main goals was to create the Symbian ...

Symbian has licensed a protocol from Microsoft to allow users of mobile phones based on the Symbian operating system to synchronize e-mail and other personal data with servers running Microsoft’s ...

NEW YORK — Nokia is buying the consortium that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, in hopes of blunting the influence of competing software ...

NEW YORK — Nokia is buying the consortium that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, in hopes of blunting the influence of competing software ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Nokia will pay $410 million for the remaining shares in UK-based smartphone software maker Symbian and make its software royalty-free to other phone makers, in response to new ...

HELSINKI (Reuters) - The world's most popular smartphone operating system, Symbian, aims to retain its lead in the increasingly crowded market by focusing on easing the use of its the software for ...