In a significant step in the development of Mobile multimedia broadcasting the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) have approved the Forward Link Only Open Conditional Access (OpenCA) Specification, as put forward by the FLO Forum, a body of more than 95 supporting global wireless industry leaders and dedicated to the open standardization of FLOTM (Forward Link-Only) […]
Well that got your attention didn’t it! Don’t get me wrong, I think the announcement yesterday was good news. Symbian has needed to go Open Source for a while.
Rating: Legal and technical hurdles to overcome
The momentous news that Nokia intends to help transform Symbian into an open source OS has taken most observers – and plenty of affected employees, too – completely by surprise.
However, the open source code for the Symbian Foundation won’t be appearing on user group sites tomorrow.
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Rating: massive overreaction to Google Android or what?
The reason why Nokia has acquired the entirety of Symbian has just become clear. It is being thrown into a giant melting pot of Symbian related technologies to create the Symbian Foundation.
Nokia has made a cash bid for Symbian Limited
