The company also plans to cut a further 4,000 jobs by the end of next year. Accenture will initially provide Nokia with software development and support services for the Symbian mobile platform, and later with software and services around the Windows Phone platform
The handset maker has updated its Symbian OS with a new version, Symbian Anna, and launched two phones running it, the X7 and E6. Both phones will start shipping during the second quarter
The Finnish phone vendor hopes an improved user interface will change its smart phone misfortunes. Historically, Symbian OS development hasn't kept pace with the touch-based user interfaces offered by the iPhone and Android OSes
Rapid growth of the mobile platform can have drawbacks, says a new study from IMS Research. Google should manage potential fragmentation otherwise it could give way to open source alternatives Symbian and LiMo
Good patching procedures and outbound firewall rules will go far in protecting your organization from botnets, but hackers are now targeting Adobe Acrobat, the Symbian mobile operating system and other software. How to protect yourself from the threats of 2010
August brought the Nortel debates into Canadian parliament, Canadian privacy law received worldwide attention during negotiations with Facebook, a Texas federal court ordered Microsoft to stop selling editions of Word and Office containing customer XML, and more