NewsFactor - With many business and individual PC users rejecting Windows Vista, Microsoft took an unprecedented step this week by promising support for Windows XP for a full 13 years. That is three years longer than it has allowed for previous Windows operating systems.
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) will pay $410 million
for the remaining shares in UK-based smartphone software maker
Symbian and make its software royalty-free to other phone
makers, in response to new rivals such as Google Inc .
TechWeb - InformationWeek - Nokia's moves to make Symbian a free and open mobile operating system should put pressure on competitors to keep innovating and giving customers what they want. -- read full article
PC World - Symbian's decision to make its source code freely available tips the scales in favor of open-source software in smartphones... -- read full article
PC World - SingleClick Remote Access software now allows access to users' personal multimedia files from home via the mobile network. -- read full article
Reuters - Google Inc was named on Monday in
a trade secrets lawsuit alleging that the company's business
software unit copied a tiny start-up's tool for moving
customers off of Microsoft software onto Google's.
AP - Nokia Corp. is buying the consortium that makes the software for its phones and making it available for free to other manufacturers, in hopes of blunting the influence of competing software providers. -- read full article
NewsFactor - On Tuesday, Nokia made a cash offer to acquire the 52 percent of Symbian it doesn't already own. Nokia is willing to pay $410 million for the mobile-platform software found on most cell phones today. -- read full article
Reuters - Nokia (NOK1V.HE) will pay $410 million
for the remaining shares in UK-based smartphone software maker
Symbian and make its software royalty-free to boost phone sales
and respond to new rivals such as Google .
Reuters - Microsoft Corp was
criticized on Tuesday for being slow to resolve problems in the
technical documentation it was required to provide to rival
software makers as part of its 2001 antitrust settlement.
AFP - Finnish mobile telephone giant Nokia said on Tuesday it will take full control of Symbian, a London-based software group, buying out the other shareholders for 264 million euros.
Reuters - Mobile phones under development
by Google Inc and its partners face slipping delivery
schedules, with the first phones not likely to arrive until
late 2008, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday.
