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Open Innovation
Andrea Meyer was a speaker at last weeks’ Open Innovation conference in Orlando (here’s a link to a conference summary ). Andrea kindly offered us a post based on that and her experience of covering innovation issues. Andrea has written for the Norwegian Center for Leadership ...
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Opportunities at MWC
According to a recent membership poll, 63 Symbian members will be attending Mobile World Congress 2010. Of these, 31 will have a booth, and an additional 16 will have a meeting room or pavilion. Symbian Foundation will also be there. Our goal will be to promote the Symbian community. ...
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Not Just About the Source Code
When people talk about contributing to Symbian, they’re usually talking about making improvements or enhancements to the source code. But when we hung out our shingle in April, it was our goal and plan that Symbian become member-led in every area, from platform governance right through to ...
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Meet Maximilian Odendahl: Committer
Symbian operating system development is undergoing dramatic change currently. 40 million lines of closed source code are being transformed into the biggest open source project ever. At the same time, software developers from different companies are joining the Symbian Foundation development ...
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Simplifying Symbian Development
Here’s the first of a number of posts we’ll be running on Qt. You can see more videos in the series QT Development for Symbian, put together by the Qt Labs people, on the Qt Labs site . Symbian staff will follow up with hints, lessons and advice soon.
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Measuring Symbian’s Progress
Success! Everyone wants it, some organisations have it and others… Well, they often talk up a good story to keep the shareholders happy. The real question is how do you define it – both in public and in private? Should there even be any difference in a transparent open business? ...
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Teenage Mobile Heroes
Julia Shalet continues to do fascinating work with young people and mobile phones. Helen Keegan , of Beep Marketing, is another name to add to the list of people doing exceptional things in mobile. On Monday Julia takes a new teen panels to the stage at Heroes of the Mobile Screen ...
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What’s Happening in Multimedia?
I’m Martin Webb, technology manager for multimedia here at Symbian. I thought I would write a short post to update those who aren’t yet following the Symbian Multimedia blog on the main discussions that have been going on: Contribution opportunities! We’re building ...
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Symbian announces 9 new DOCOMO devices
Symbian announces 9 new DOCOMO devices
blog.symbian.org — I’m Kyoko Horikawa, Communications Manager in the Symbian Japan office. As you may know, Japan is a... leader in mobile phone technology and Japanese mobile phones have a wide range of high tech capabilities that allow you to do a lot on the go: ... (more) Symbian announces 9 new DOCOMO devices
DOCOMO announces 9 new Symbian devices
I’m Kyoko Horikawa, Communications Manager in the Symbian Japan office. As you may know, Japan is a leader in mobile phone technology and Japanese mobile phones have a wide range of high tech capabilities that allow you to do a lot on the go: email your friends, browse the internet, take ...
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Mobile data consumption: part II
I talked about mobile data consumption previously here in reference to some of the Admob produced stats. Since then, Admob has been acquired by Google and their stats have been quoted widely. The October metrics report caused a recent spate of articles like this one from the register . The ...
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The Value of Platform Contribution
My name is Ilkka Syrjälä and I’m the Symbian Technology Manager at Ixonos . My responsibilities – among other things – are to increase our visibility in different areas related to the Symbian platform and tighten our co-operation with the Symbian Foundation. THERE IS A PROBLEM WITH THE ...
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The Navigation Market
This week, San Jose is welcoming the 6th annual US Navigation and Location conference . Nav&Loc 09 is a place where Navigation players meet in order to shape the future of Navigation Based Services. This year’s conference is an important milestone in the Navigation landscape.  ...
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China Market
During the Autumn I worked with China word-of-mouth experts CIC to produce some comparative data on online responses to smartphones – we were particualrly interested in non-Symbian phones so there is no Symbian data in the study note we will publish this week. Here are some of the ...
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Gartner on Symbian
Nick Jones over on Gartner late last week weighed in with some thoughts on Symbian . Our thanks to Nick for bringing this up I’ve just completed three Gartner symposium conferences and so have spent a lot of time talking to clients in Europe, APAC and the USA about mobile platforms. And one ...
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Open Innovation
Being a regular user of LinkedIn has, for me, the benefit of catching conferences I might not otherwise hear about – because my connections are attending them. So I came across the inaugural Open Innovation Conference, due to take place this week in Orlando, Florida. What’s ...
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Event: Symbian Japan
Hello, I’m Ryo Inowa, a community manager in Symbian Japan. I am very happy to inform members “Symbian Japan Forum”. This will be held on 15/01/2010 at the Accenture office in Tokyo, thanks Accenture!! This member event will provide various updates from Symbian, ...
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Blog Awards
Computer Weekly on Tuesday last hosted it annual IT blog awards . Symbian was runner up in the small corporate section. It is of course very good news. Congratulations to the winners in each category. Thanks to whoever nominated Symbian. I will try to find out more as the day wears on.  ...
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Cathing up With Symbian Tools
A couple of weeks back twenty-nine Symbian eco-system tools creators spent the day sharing plans, strategies and goals here in the Bay Area. We had representatives from handset manufacturers, package owners, chip vendors, startups, tools vendors, and service providers. This is after all an ...
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Thought Leaders and Business as Movement
The press , trade and national, picked up on this week’s new Thought Leadership Index from TLG (the Thought Leadership Group). Apple and Google appeared as number 1 and 2. What the trade press didn’t point out is that The Co-operative Bank ranked 6, just behind joint third place ...
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