Android Not Alone, Symbian Now Open Source and Free

The source code for the ten-year old Symbian platform will be completely open source and available for free starting Thursday. The transition from proprietary code to open source is the largest in software history, claims the Symbian Foundation.

“The dominant operating system provider out there is Symbian,” says Lee Williams, executive director of the Symbian Foundation, “and now we are offering developers the ability to do so much more.” Read the rest of this entry »

Android will be No. 2 mobile OS in next 2 years

Google’s Android mobile operating system will become the second most-popular mobile platform by 2013, according to a new report by IDC. Read the rest of this entry »