A new offering on the market for secure applications running from mobile devices is offered by German company BeSeQure. Their solution works with Windows Mobile 5.0 as well as Blackberry and Java. Their implementation offers entire end-to-end security built on digital certificates, in...

'The Forum Nokia PRO Symbian Zone is an exclusive opportunity created by Symbian and Nokia for members of the PRO community to gain access to the new Symbian OS Library for Application Developers online,' said Bruce Carney, Head of Developer Marketing and Services, Symbian, as Nokia la...

Intellisync emphasized its commitment to Symbian OS today by announcing the availability of Intellisync Instant Messaging, a wireless corporate IM solution for Symbian OS smartphone users.

What the company is calling a 'flagship' UMTS smartphone is Wi-Fi enabled, has a 2 megapixel camera with autofocus and features a new hardware keyboard beneath the flip-down keypad. The phone will start shipping during Q1 of 2006.

Jarno Niemela of F-Secure in Finland has identified Cardtrap.A, a malicious SIS file trojan that tries to disable large number of system and third party applications and installs Windows malware on the phone memory card of Symbian OS smartphones.

In a major coup for Linux, Palo Alto, CA-based Trolltech Software 'the world's biggest producer of Linux software for mobile devices' just hired two execs closely associated with Linux's nemesis, Microsoft. Trolltech is readying itself for an IPO.

Mobile games publisher Telcogames and video games publisher Codemasters today announced a deal to bring a number of classic games titles to the new generation of Symbian Smartphones.

Symbian said its operating system was installed in 7.8 million phones, compared with 2.6 million a year ago. Total first-half shipments were 14.5 million, up 191 percent from the previous year.

The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has rejected an application by Apple for the iPod, based on previous filings by Microsoft. This sort of technology tussle within the PTO is not unusual, although the circumstances around this particular fight are.

Ryman's blog can be read at ryman.eclipsedevelopersjournal.com. He is the latest i-technology celebrity whose blog is syndicated on SYS-CON's branded blog-n-play community pages next to James Gosling, Marc Fleury, Ben Forta, John C. Dvorak, Alan Williamson and others.

Aimed at the business market, the M1000 is compatible with international mobile networks including W-CDMA, GSM and GPRS networks as well as public wireless LANs. It provides POP and IMAP email capability and allows users to open and view Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Power...

Handango yesterday announced a new version of Handango InHand for Symbian - an intelligent, device-resident download client for smartphones and wireless handhelds.

TiVo Inc. announced today that the Company will be presenting at the William Blair and Company's 25th Annual Growth Stock Conference in Chicago on Thursday, June 23, 2005 at 2:30 p.m. Central Daylight Time (CDT).

Symbian is licensing source codes for Futuremark Corporation's current SPMark04 product and two forthcoming handheld benchmark products, and is also joining Futuremark's handheld benchmark development program.

Boston Communications Group, Inc. , previously announced that the non-jury trial to consider the Company's unenforcability defense in the patent infringement lawsuit brought by Freedom Wireless, Inc. against the Company commenced in the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts on June 7, 2...

MessageVine announced today that it has joined the Symbian Platinum Program to support the growing market for smartphones based on Symbian OS(TM). As a Platinum Partner, MessageVine is extending Mobile IM to the Symbian ecosystem. Symbian develops and licenses Symbian OS, the global in...

Symbian Limited has released its unaudited financial and operational figures for the first quarter ended 31st March 2005.

Nokia Corp. will work with open-source developers for a new browser on its Series 60 mobile phones. The browser will integrate elements from the Apple Safari browser used in Mac OS X.

The Board of Symbian yesterday announced the appointment of Nigel Clifford to the post of Chief Executive Officer, replacing David Levin who left in April. Clifford has wide experience of successful leadership across a number of sectors, including the technology sector. He was appointe...

The latest series of Nokia multimedia phones are based on Symbian OS, the world's most popular operating system for advanced mobile phones. Symbian attributes this success to its open-standards approach.

'Compliance and security are the new Software Quality drivers,' said Dr Adam Kolawa, cofounder and CEO of Parasoft Corporation, talking live on SYS-CON.TV to Sean Rhody, editor-in-chief of Web Services Journal and Yakov Fain, Enterprise Editor of JDJ.

A SIS file trojan - Fontal.A - that installs a corrupted Font file into infected mobile devices, thus causing them to fail at next reboot, has been identified by Finnish virus specialists F-Secure. It affects smartphones running Symbian OS.

An agreement sees Symbian licensing synchronization software from Microsoft and then distributing it in the European market.

As part of the ISSJ - Information Storage & Security Journal's product review series, we ordered a Sony VAIO laptop by phone, by dialing Sony's toll free number provided at the Sony Style Web site (www.sonystyle.com) in the United States.

The world's first Symbian-based smartphone has been created it was announced at the 3GSM World Congress in Canne, France.

This year it looks certain that a new participation record will be set, as more than 4,000 votes have already been recorded in just the first seven days of voting, as more than 50,000 SYS-CON Media readers are estimated to cast their votes in this year's Readers' Choice Awards. Highlig...

Nokia and Macromedia today announced a licensing agreement that will integrate Macromedia Flash technology into Series 60 Platform. Nokia has also agreed to support Flash in its other software platforms. The agreement will provide opportunities for the 1.8 million registered deve...

'The most major news item in mobility yesterday,' writes Mike Rowehl, 'seems to be the new release of Symbian OS.' But the 9.0 version doesn't really include many new features that affect the end user, he adds. 'The USB mass storage feature will actually be pretty cool, but doesn't rea...

eBay, The World's Online Marketplace, has more than 114 million registered users, 10,000 developers, and over 700 live, third-party applications.

On February 16th at Web Services Edge 2005 in Boston, Mass., Mr. Farquharson will present the topic: 'B2B Policy Enforcement: The Third Rail of SOA Implementation.' In this presentation he will discuss XML Virtual Private Networks (XML VPNs) and their potential to mitigate security pol...

Nokia has launched Python for the series 60 Platform, which now lets open source developers use the Python programming language to carry out Python commands, scripts, and run Python applications.

SYS-CON Media, the world's leading i-technology media company, announced that its 2005 Readers' Choice Awards polls opened today, February 1, 2005, and will remain open for six months, until July 31, 2005. More than 50,000 readers are expected to cast their votes to select the best so...

Whitacre and Dorman are expected to appear on CNBC's SquawkBox together 8:30 AM on Monday morning. David Faber of CNBC, who originally broke the news, has been following the story for some time now and more details regarding the merger expected to be announced during the CNBC interview...

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that SYS-CON.TV (www.sys-con.tv), the first streaming live i-technology television is scheduled to debut on February 15, 2005 to coincide with the first day of the upcoming Web Services Edg...

SYS-CON Media (www.sys-con.com), the world's leading i-technology media company, announced today that the first branded blogging community, www.blog-n-play.com (TM), will go beta on February 15, 2005, to coincide with the opening day of the Web Services Edge 2005 East International Web...

CommTel Network Solutions Australia, a value added re-seller of Nokia's network solutions, has signed an agreement for the supply of Nokia broadband DSL solutions and related services to a new customer, Telecom Cook Islands Ltd in the Pacific, marking a new market entry for Nokia. Deli...

$50 million is what Tiger Woods alleges Christensen Shipyards owes him, for breaking a privacy agreement signed with the pro golfer. Woods filed suit in Miami federal court, stating Christensen, from whom Woods bought a $20 million yacht, used his celebrity status as an ill-gained endo...

The mood was definitely upbeat on Thursday, October 28, as the 45th Annual Fort Lauderdale International Boat Show commenced with the largest opening day crowd in its history. The YV&C staff was on hand and spent most of their time at Bahia Mar and Las Olas, touring the show's superyac...

Fueled in part by Parasoft's desire to expand into Europe, a new office has been opened in London, the company said. John Rodford will be the managing director. Rodford has a strong sales background in technology-related sectors.

On Symbian smartphones such as the Nokia 6600, reports Michael Yuan, the Java runtime does not integrate well with the underlying platform. However with the Nokia 6630, the first consumer phone from Nokia that supports JSR 75, things have finally changed, he says.