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Nokia to lay off 600 employees

Things might not be so rosy over at phone-maker Nokia. The number-one handset maker in the world announced Tuesday that it plans to cut about 600 employees. Nokia cited a weakening worldwide economy... Read more...

Open-sourced Symbian questioned

Richard Windsor, a research analyst for technology and communication equipment at Nomura International, questioned whether Nokia's move to open source the Symbian platform a "win" for everyone... Read more...

Symbian S60 5th Edition released

Nokia's new touch-screen phone, the Nokia 5800 XpressMusic, will be powered by the newly released Symbian S60 operating system, 5th Edition.... Read more...

Symbian open to further ties with Google

Smartphone software maker Symbian hinted that it could expand its collaboration with Google all the way to the operating system level. Nigel Clifford, Symbian chief executive told reporters that... Read more...

Nokia to buy all of Symbian

Nokia has announced that it will offer to acquire the remaining 52 percent of Symbian Limited. Control of Symbian Limited, a software company formed to develop and license the Symbian OS, effectively... Read more...

Trustchip encrypts GSM calls with 256-bit AES

A new security product designed to block eavesdropping at the Telco-level will be out before the end of the year. Called the Trustchip,... Read more...

Windows Mobile 7: coming late 2009?

Google domination designs

It's not that Google wants to put out just another mobile wireless product--the search-engine giant has designs to Read more...

Symantec's mobile security suite not up to snuff

Symantec is a trusted name in enterprise security and its products keep many an IT department under lock and key. So you can't really argue with the assumption that the company's latest mobile... Read more...

Hacking mobile phones

After a Washington family claimed that its cell phones had been hacked, Nokia delivered a report on the... Read more...

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