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After ten years: new Foundation to accelerate innovation
Symbian, the market leading open operating system for mobile phones, today celebrates its ten year anniversary.
Over the past decade Symbian has transformed the market through its unrivalled innovation and commercial success in driving the evolution of the smartphone industry – with Symbian OS™ customers shipping over 200 million mobile phones across more than 250 major network operators worldwide and establishing the first open mobile OS for the mass-market.
This year already, over 20 new mobile phones have been announced on Symbian OS v9. All of the world’s top five handset manufacturers have announced new Symbian OS models and more will come to market this year with volumes continuing to grow.
As Symbian marks its ten year anniversary with a celebration of its past achievements and milestones, today also marks the start of the most significant transformation of the company since it was founded, as it moves into its second exciting decade and the next stage of its evolution.
Symbian remains focused on further strengthening the development and adoption of its open mobile platform with a vision of becoming the most widely used software platform on the planet. Today’s announcement of the Symbian Foundation is a big step that follows this vision. According to Canalys data, on average Symbian OS has accounted for 60% of the global converged device market over the last year 12 months; the new Symbian Foundation will only build on the company’s ongoing success.
“Symbian was established by visionary players to offer an advanced operating system and bring software skills to the whole mobile industry”, said Nigel Clifford, CEO, Symbian. “In ten years, we have achieved an enormous amount, inventing a market, building that market – and ultimately, making that market. It took us eight years to reach 100 million units and less than two years to cover the next 100 million and we are confident that we are going to see even faster growth in the years to come.”
Jørgen Behrens, Executive Vice-President, Marketing, Symbian said “The Symbian Foundation is a bold new step by the industry towards our vision. It embraces a complete and proven platform, offered in an open way, designed to stimulate future innovation, through collaboration with partners and developers and through technology developed using collaborative open source methods.”
Symbian was established in 1998 to enable mobile phone manufacturers, operators and developers to create innovative applications and devices required to drive forward mobile phone data, internet usage and high quality multimedia experiences around the world. The Company estimates that they are now over 4 million active Symbian developers around the world working on Symbian OS and supported runtimes to develop new phone technologies and applications.
With the industry's longest track record of educating, stimulating and enabling an open ecosystem around smartphone and application development, Symbian sees developers as core to the success of the platform. Today Symbian’s software is the development platform for over 10,000 mobile commercial applications used on phones from the leading manufacturers.
As the world of mobile changes to embrace video and rich content, Symbian continues to innovate to support the developers of these applications. In the past year the company has introduced the Freeway IP broadband networking architecture that enables superfast broadband on the mobile,; Screenplay, the graphics architecture product; and the SMP multi-processor architecture to drive ‘performance-on-demand’.
“Today’s announcement gives all of us in the Symbian ecosystem an opportunity to pause and reflect on the phenomenal achievements of the past ten years,” continued Behrens. “No single software platform worldwide can claim such widespread usage and success or such future potential as the mobile phone usage grows and develops in every region around the world. The skills of a Symbian software developer have never been more in demand.”
Nigel Clifford concluded, “On behalf of all at Symbian I would like to thank our shareholders and partners for their support over the past ten years and we look forward to continuing our successful collaboration well into the future. I know that they, in turn, pay tribute to the millions of developers in the Symbian ecosystem and to the people at Symbian who continue to help us move towards our vision. As mobile phones become more sophisticated and multi-functional the most successful platform will be one that has the broadest reach geographically, the broadest reach in terms of contributors and the broadest reach in terms of environments. This is what we will create through the unified platform and I am confident we will continue to extend its influence and usage around the world”.
Symbian has received many awards and much recognition for its achievements in the past ten years including the recent Queen’s Awards in April 2008 – one for Enterprise in Innovation, for Symbian’s track record in driving the development of mobile devices, and one for Enterprise in International Trade, recognising Symbian’s doubling of exports to £197m in the three years to December 2007.
Source: Symbian (24-6-08)
Further info: Statements of support for the Symbian Foundation • Symbian Foundation members profile • Symbian Foundation plans: open mobile software platform • Mobile industry endorsement for Symbian Foundation grows •
Yahoo!, a leader in developing mobile-first experiences, is driving the industry towards the future of mobile communications with Yahoo! oneConnect. In 2007, Yahoo! revolutionized mobile search with Yahoo! oneSearch, an optimized search experience designed for the mobile device. Today the company will unveil a plan for similarly reinventing mobile communications by demonstrating its upcoming Yahoo! oneConnect service. Yahoo! oneConnect is expected to become available in the award-winning Yahoo! Go 3.0 and Yahoo!’s new mobile home page in Q2 2008.
“last year we set out to reinvent mobile search with Yahoo! oneSearch, and today with 29 operator partnerships around the world covering more than 600 million subscribers, we believe we have certainly succeeded,” said Marco Boerries, executive vice president, Connected Life, Yahoo!. “Now, we intend to reinvent mobile communications through Yahoo! oneConnect, a revolutionary new mobile communications service that will combine integrated mobile messaging with a socially-connected address book.”
Yahoo! oneConnect will be the first mobile product with an open architecture that aggregates communications tools – email, instant messaging (IM), text messaging (SMS), and social networks – for a new level of convenience in mobile communications.
After its release, Yahoo! oneConnect is expected to become available across hundreds of devices and mobile browsers around the world.
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The leading new generation provider of mobile instant messaging (MIM) and Presence-enabled solutions, Colibria, today announced availability of its Colibria Lite client to support growth in emerging markets. By providing this new client for basic and low cost handsets, operators and service providers will be able to support their drive for mass-market service adoption in emerging markets with innovative and compelling MIM services.
Mobile device market saturation in many markets means that over 80% of new mobile phone subscribers in the next four years will come from emerging markets. India, China, Eastern Eastern, South America and Africa have all been highlighted as regions that will drive new subscriber growth.
However, the availability of low cost handsets and compelling services will be crucial in ‘connecting the unconnected’ and supporting the social and economic development of many emerging market countries. The relatively high availability of mobile networks, but relatively low penetration of PCs and broadband, makes MIM and Presence services extremely compelling as it provides instantaneous group-based dialogue and reduces barriers to communication for mobile users.
The Colibria Lite client provides basic MIM and Presence functionality for a wide range of low-end handsets. Features include Presence availability, mood, status text and alias within the contact list - enabling users to manage and express their availability to chat according to the context they are in. As with Colibria's other leading solutions, the operator has the ability to brand the client so that it compliments their existing look and feel, while fitting into a complete end-to-end service offering.
“New interactive services and communications are not just for Smartphones and high end devices,” comments Lars Kristian Roland, Chief Technology Officer at Colibria. “We are constantly striving to drive take-up of mass market mobile IM by helping operators achieve the widest possible handset support across both developed and emerging markets.”
Combined with Colibria's leading end-to-end functionality for user provisioning, silent login, Presence authorization, subscriptions and OTA download support, the Colibria Lite client brings rich MIM and Presence to a much wider market.
Colibria is the leading global provider of new generation mobile IM (MIM) and Presence-enabled solutions. Colibria’s award-winning technology enables operators and service providers to evolve their messaging services for the next phase of growth in interactive communications.
Operators are now deploying MIM and Presence in order to differentiate their services and to unlock new revenue streams. Colibria's server and client product suite provides highly scalable and modular solutions for the deployment, expansion and growth of MIM, Rich IP messaging and new generation Presence services.
Colibria is fast becoming the platform of choice for mobile IM deployments worldwide. Founded in 2000, Colibria has offices in the UK, Norway, Belgium, Spain, Singapore and the Philippines. Colibria powers a growing number of mobile communities throughout Europe, Asia and Latin America with a total addressable subscriber base in excess of 350 million worldwide.
Source: Colibria (13-2-08)
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