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PARIS, October 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Al Jazeera, the world's first global 24-hour news and current affairs television network, based in the Middle East, is today launching a mobile application called "Al Jazeera", which gives access to the channel's Arabic and English programs live and on-demand for all users of Symbian or Windows Mobile phones worldwide. Developed by mobile TV specialist Mobiclip, the "Al Jazeera" mobile application provides high quality live viewing of the News...

OULU, Finland, Aug. 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Leveraging more than 20-years of expertise in the wireless industry, EB, Elektrobit Corporation (OMX: EBC1V), a leading developer of cutting-edge embedded technology solutions for automotive and wireless industries, announced it has proudly joined the Symbian Foundation. EB will also have a seat on the Release Council, which coordinates the integration of contributions to the Symbian source code into stable and timely platform and tools releases. The...

HONG KONG, Aug. 13 /PRNewswire-Asia/ -- Business Highlights: -- A8 Music is a leading and a pioneer integrated digital music company in China. It is recognized as a national high technology enterprise as well as the leading culture enterprise in Shenzhen -- Net profits has grown continuously with profit attributable to equity holders for the first half of 2009 up by 21% to RMB44.9 million -- Apart from collecting original music via its UGC...

Nokia has agreed to sell the professional services unit of its Symbian mobile phone operating system to the U.S. consulting firm Accenture, officials say. The move, announced by Accenture Friday, is seen by industry analysts as a further step by the Finnish handset maker to distance itself from Symbian and establish it as a stand-alone software firm, Information Week reported. After purchasing Symbian for $410 million, Nokia moved to spin it off into an independent foundation where it says...

ESPOO, Finland and NEW YORK, July 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Accenture have entered into an agreement for Accenture to acquire Nokia's Symbian Professional Services unit responsible for Symbian OS customer engineering and customer support. The unit provides engineering consulting and product development services on a global basis to mobile phone manufacturers, as well as chip manufacturers and mobile operators. Services provided by the Symbian...

NEW YORK, May 27 /PRNewswire/ -- DataArt, a high-end software development company with R&D centers in Eastern Europe, was recently selected by GeoLife, an innovative GPS navigation software provider, to port Navmii, its mobile navigation software, across to the Nokia Symbian s60 platform. The porting performed by DataArt further extends the compatibility of Navmii to include the range of latest Nokia smart phones from E-series and N-series, which are based on Symbian S60 3rd edition...

A Japanese software company has come up with a cell phone program to help people out on the town find the nearest restroom. Software manufacturer Access Co. said the Check a Toilet Widget, developed in cooperation with mapmaker NPO Check, allows users to get a list of nearby lavatories with detailed descriptions of the available facilities, Mainichi Daily News reported. The company said the program is a free download for phones running the Windows Mobile or Symbian S60 operating systems....

LONDON, March 31 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Voiceserve, Inc. (OTC: VSRV - News) announced through its Voipswitch operation which develops innovative VoIP telecom solutions that it has received Symbian Signed status for its new mobile software module the "Vippie Mobile for Symbian". Vippie Mobile connects to Internet using either Wifi, GPRS, EDGE or UMTS. The mobile phone end-user utilizing a unit with the Symbian functions, on the selects the connection option when starting the...

Rhodes Slashes Mobile App Development Effort by 80 Percent New Framework Allows Developers to Simultaneously Create Native Applications for All Smartphones CUPERTINO, Calif. March 24 /PRNewswire/ -- Rhomobile today announced the release of Rhodes 1.0, the industry's first open source framework for rapidly building mobile applications for all major smartphone operating systems. Rhodes allows developers to write a smartphone application once using simple HTML and it automatically builds...

GENEVA, Switzerland, February 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Nokia and ST-Ericsson announced they are cooperating to provide the Symbian Foundation with a reference platform based on ST-Ericsson's U8500 single chip. The chip, which combines ST-Ericsson's well-proven application processor and state-of-the-art HSPA (High-Speed Packet Access) Release 7 modem, will enable the wide adoption, across the industry, of feature-rich, multimedia 3G Smartphones. Demonstrating its emphasis on execution...