Symbian's operating system is already inside Nokia's 9290 Communicator phone, which costs $599 and is on sale in the United States. Nokia sells the 9290 Communicator through its Web site and CompUSA.

Symbian today said it will open most of the source code for its mobile operating system to third party developers, in its latest effort to encourage the creation of more software for the platform.

Reports didn't indicate whether Symbian would be discontinued for just the N-Series or also Nokia's X-series or E-series, too. Symbian has been Nokia's primary OS for more than 10 years.

Yet one could be forgiven for thinking Symbian is dead and buried, with news of layoffs at Nokia, management departures at the Symbian Foundation and rough reviews of the latest flagship N8 device.

He revealed that a small team at Symbian succeeded several years ago in running the Symbian OS on an X86 CPU. Using that as a base, “We developed drivers for Atom and went up the stack,” said Williams ...

Nokia launched an updated version of its Symbian^3 mobile operating system on Tuesday, along with two phones running the software, the X7 and the E6. The launches are a sign that Nokia hasn’t ...

Still the largest operating system in terms of smartphones, the Symbian Foundation has reorganised itself for the new world of Android, iPhone, Maemo, Brew, Windows Mobile and Linux by freely ...

Symbian is today the world’s most successful smartphone OS, accounting for 50 percent of global sales. Most of these handsets do not, however, compare favorably to Android-based or iPhone devices.

Nokia is transferring Symbian to Accenture as part of its plans to develop smartphones based on the Windows Phone 7 OS from Microsoft. About 3,000 employees will move to Accenture in the process.

LONDON — The Symbian Foundation has outlined aggressive plans for the release over the next two years of its open source software, as well as plans for its S60 operating system. The speed-up comes ...

According to market watcher IDC, Symbian will still be most commonly used mobile operating system for the next three years, at least. Android has come from nowhere just two years ago and is gaining ...

Symbian's operating system is already inside Nokia's 9290 Communicator phone, which costs $599 and is on sale in the United States. Nokia sells the 9290 Communicator through its Web site and CompUSA.