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A serious vulnerability for Nokia phones has been unveiled today which blocks all incoming messages, whether it be in the form of SMS or MMS. It is considered to be a “Remote SMS/MMS Denial of Service” and is called the “Curse Of Silence.”
If the name isn’t enough to convince...
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Nokia’s 264 million euro offer to buy Symbian is on track, says chief development officer Mary McDowell, and should be in wrap-up mode by this year’s end.
The offer to acquire the last remaining shares of Symbian that still weren’t theirs was made by Nokia back in June. Since then,...
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IBM Lotus Notes, the email client-sever said to have around 140 million licensed users from all over the world, will soon be supported on a large number of Nokia’s S60 smartphones, including all the S60 3rd Edition ones (yes, the N96 Bruce Lee special edition too). This means that more than 80 million...
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Filed under: Nokia, Symbian, s60, email, wireless, ibm, corporate email, s60 3rd edition, lotus, Software&Services, IBM Lotus Notes, IBM Lotus email
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Nokia has just released Mobile Web Server 1.5 beta for Symbian S60 smartphones, an application that allows users to access (and manage) their phones via the WWW, from a desktop browser. Like many of Nokia’s applications and services, Mobile Web Server is offered free of any charge.
Among the new things...
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Was there ever a time when you had to endure receiving tons of text SPAM on your phone, with the occassional bogus “You won the lottery!” kind of calls? Hmm. I’ve had my fair share of such. And I must say, I didn’t enjoy it one bit.
So I scoured the whole universe to its very...
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The Nokia-built Symbian Foundation family seems to grow bigger by the hour. This time around, it’s Huawei, Visa, ARM, and 9 others that are joining the team in order to get first dibs on the newly open-source Symbian software.
Details are scarce, and it’s a bit intriguing that Visa is joining...
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Developing for Nokia’s S60 on Symbian OS just got better. Why? Because Qt Software has just announced that Qt has finally been ported for S60 devices, which according to Qt’s press relese, “makes it easy for developers to create applications once and then deploy them on any of the Windows...
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Orkut has come a long way from its early days, and now it seems their services can only get better. Recently, Google has announced that it has made several improvements to the mobile version of orkut, which can be found on m.orkut.com, for Symbian Series 60 3rd Edition handsets. It now features photo...
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Filed under: Nokia, Samsung, Symbian, s60, wireless, Orkut, Software&Services, series 60 3rd edition, photo uploads, picture galleries, new features
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Somebody just had to say it. Google has been blowing mighty horns about how its open-source Android smartphone OS will blow all its competitors out of the water. Nokia, meanwhile, with Symbian and access to the largest smartphone market share, is surely to make a difference when the first traces of its...
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This was quite unexpected, but Nokia together with AT&T, LG Electronics, Motorola, NTT DOCOMO, Samsung, Sony Ericsson, STMicroelectronics, Texas Instruments and Vodafone are going to build the Symbian Foundation, and will dedicate their time and efforts to open source mobile technology.
At the same...
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06-24-2008
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Filed under: Apple, iPhone, Nokia, Symbian, s60, Google, Software, uiq, wireless, android, moap, Software&Services, mobile platform, symbian foundation