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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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Those about 130 million Facebook users should be doing great today – at least after they’ll find out that Facebook messaging is now being pushed on any mobile device. emoze, an Israeli company, subsidiary of Emblaze, has announced that Symbian users can now “add their Facebook messaging in combination...
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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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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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The smartphone market isn’t exactly the realm of LG, whose handsets often offer fashion before function, but if a report from Telecoms Korea is to be believed, it looks like the company may be completely changing its stance for the next year.
It appears that LG has realized it will need to start...
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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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Google has just announced the release of Google Maps for mobile with Transit directions for Symbian S60 and Windows Mobile powered handsets on the Official Google Mobile Blog. Google Maps for mobile is actually on version 2.2 now and features the addition of commuter-friendly transit directions.
The...
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Due to insistent public demand, Fring has announced that it has finally added support for the first Samsung Symbian device, the Samsung 550W (or i550W, depending on your region). Now, users of the said smartphone will be able to take advantage of the wireless telephony offerings already being provided...
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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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Filed under: Nokia, Symbian, merger, Google, Featured, os, free, operating system, open-source, wireless, android, Software&Services