Nokia today announced it has launched a cash offer to acquire all of the shares of Symbian Limited that Nokia does not already own, at a price of EUR 3.647 per share. The net cash outlay from Nokia to purchase the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own will be approximately EUR 264 million.

Except open-sourcing Symbian will occur over two years, while the Android SDK is already available and with significant participation/commitment. Over that period, Symbian's current market share will have little effect — everyone…

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Now here’s something you don’t see every day: a manufacturer openly complaining about its own product leaks on their corporate blog…

I can sympathize with their views. re: Engadget — You aren't inherently entitled to leaked information just because its available. I understand that your core business practice is to publish gadget info, but the whole…

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Open-source developers targeting the mobile space need to learn business rules including digital rights management, Nokia’s software chief has claimed. Speaking at the Handsets World conference in Berlin on Tuesday, Dr Ari Jaaksi told delegates that the open-source community needed to be ‘educated’ in the way the mobile industry currently works, be

In his speech, Jaaksi detailed some of the lessons Nokia had learned in its work with the Maemo developer community, primarily the need to avoid 'forking' code: “Don't make your own version,” he said. “The original…

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“Piper Jaffray analyst Gene Munster summarized the flood of recent iPhone deals in a note to clients on Friday,” Philip Elmer-DeWitt blogs for Fortune.

Anyone even a bit concerned that part of Apple's ability to keep quality high is linked to demand being below a certain threshold? Here's my thinking. Corporations are basically amoral, neither good nor evil, rather its the people who…

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Telstra will be the third Australian mobile provider to sell the iPhone in Australia, fueling speculation of the imminent launch of a 3G iPhone.

Bulky 5-megapixel camera phones will be a thing of the past after LG reveals its Secret. At 11mm thick the Secret will be the thinnest high-end camera phone available. HSDPA data and a touch sensitive display make the Secret a phone you…

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Nokia is developing a new kind of navigation system for mobile phones. With landmark-based navigation you wont even need to know your address or cross streets to get directions. You just take a picture of a nearby landmark, like the Golden Gate Bridge, and the cellphone will pull up directions from a mapping database.

“Alright yur gunna wunna go straight to the top of that there hill and turn right. Stay straight until you pass two red barns on the left and then yur gunna see Johnsonville pond right thur on yur right. Take a left right there and go…

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“The handset maker went to citizens of Mumbai, Rio and other megacities for new ideas?and got designs that find graffiti, test water, and emit peace vibes”

The handset maker went to citizens of Mumbai, Rio and other megacities for new ideas—and got designs that find graffiti, test water, and emit peace vibes

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Nokia has announced plans to bring support for the Qt toolkit to the Maemo operating system used on Nokia Internet Tablet devices. Nokia is also sponsoring an Ubuntu ARM port.

We talked to Nokia development platform product manager Quim Gil who provided us with more details about this new addition to Maemo. “We want to explore cross-platform possibilities between S60 and maemo and we also want to check the…

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The first generation of products that were influenced by the iPhone were products that were already scheduled for the market,” explains Avi Greengart, a research director at Current Analysis. “But now, we’re definitely starting to see phones that are beginning to look at user interface on a touchscreen to provide a different experience

iClones aside, possibly the most hyped item at CTIA won't be a phone or an application or even an innovative piece of software, but an operating system. The Google-backed, open source Android operating system, first unveiled in November…

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Why is Apple suddenly in talks with record labels about bundling an unlimited music plan with new iPods, after resisting such a move for years? Steve Jobs has scoffed at music subscriptions in the past, saying customers want to “own their music.” Never take Steve at his word: For years, he shot down the idea of iPods with video or an…

I like their stuff. I hope another company comes around to bitch slap apple though. It is becoming like Microsoft and is becoming too full of itself. by matto at 03:15 PM Reply by Email * @Fidel on the Roof: is it even possible to buy a mac today…

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Wine is one of the fastest developed open source applications. A new Wine version is released every two weeks. One application that users have been wanting to run on Linux for several years is Adobe Photoshop.
A couple of hours ago Louis Lenders managed to install and run Adobe Photoshop CS3!

However, a couple of hours ago Louis Lenders managed to install and run Adobe Photoshop CS3. He used the latest available source of wine (from git) which will be released in under two weeks as wine version 0.9.57.

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hahaha…thats a good analysis by wired magazine…pretty good

wow. that is really gay. wait until it morphs into a gun and everyone will be shooting each other or throwing ninja stars. i would like to see a microwave though, that would be interesting. watch it come out and attack humans in the future when…

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