F-Secure make a security tool for Android, Symbian and Windows Mobile devices.
Microsoft currently operates only in the high end smartphone segment while the budget smartphone segment is dominated by Android and Symbian.
The company has 1 million subscribers to its mobile service, which is available on the iPhone as well as devices running Android, Symbian, webOS and Windows Mobile.
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With rising e-commerce facilitated by sophisticated user-friendly applications on the iPhone, Blackberry, Android and Symbian, we expect mobile shopping to draw sales sales volume away from Avon until the company can expand its online and mobile presence.
By dropping the minimum hardware requirements for Windows Phones running Tango, Microsoft plans to bring down the average price of Windows Phones and capture more market share by competing with Android and Symbian, the two biggest players in the budget smartphone market.
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The point is that Android, Symbian, webOS, Windows Phone 7, and the rest of the pack should be able to advance with almost total disregard for the hardware business, knowing they're resolution-independent (within reason) and they can expect to target an ARMv6 or ARMv7 core.
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As a rival open-source mobile operating system, Symbian was often compared to Android, sometimes unfavorably.
Arguably Nokia could have shown off a phone running Symbian, Meego, or even Android, and the bulk of the presentation would have been identical.
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LogMeIn Rescue gives helpdesks and support staff the ability to remotely configure, diagnose and troubleshoot tablets (iOS, Android), smartphones (Android, iPhone, Symbian, BlackBerry) as well as PCs and Macs.
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By 2014, Gartner predicts, the Android will tie with the Symbian OS in popularity.
The bottom line is that Nokia is getting crushed by an increasingly competitive marketplace in which its Symbian phones are losing market share to Android phones and Apple iPhones.
Antenna does this by selling a mobile service and platform to enterprises called Antenna Mobility Platform (AMP) that runs mobile devices such as the Apple iPhone, RIM (RIMM) BlackBerry, Windows Mobile, Windows, Symbian and Google (GOOG) Android.
Currently, mobile app development is defined by technological complexity (complex coding), smartphone platform fragmentation (iOS, Android, Windows, Blackberry, Symbian) and over-regulated distribution channels (app marketplaces).
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And, indeed, in that same six months, these developers created more than 100 apps for the platform, including mobile clients for iOS, Android and even Windows Phone and Symbian, desktop apps for Mac, Windows and Linux and browser extensions for Chrome and Firefox.
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Code Factory's products are compatible with the widest range of mainstream mobile devices running on Symbian, Windows Mobile, BlackBerry Smartphones, and Android.
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After his famous "burning platform" memo, he opted to abandon the Symbian operating system, and choose Windows Phone rather than Android as the lifeboat to take Nokia to calmer waters.
The rumor out of Spain (and a totally plausible rumor at that) is that Motorola's abandoning Symbian altogether to put most of its eggs in the Android basket.
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It works across Android, iPhone, Blackberry, Windows Phone and Symbian platforms and does not charge a fee per message.
They run on four major operating systems Apple, Android, BlackBerry and Microsoft Windows, (Symbian no longer gets much love) each with its own security challenges that must be met for every one of those 25 apps CIOs foresee.
Even when Symbian was the de facto king of the smartphones, it never gained a solid foothold in the US. Developers flocked to iOS, and to a lesser extent the nascent Android platform, even though numerically in those days Symbian was the larger platform.
Compliant, which has been in the business for five years, uses software on the handset to trigger recording of BlackBerry and Symbian (Nokia) calls and will soon offer Windows 7 and Android as well.
Then Samsung was also running Symbian OS, but withdrew from the consortium, picked up the nascent Android OS, and started out on the path that took them to the number one slot in the smartphone market.
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With webOS and Symbian out of the game, Windows Phone is now the only alternative to Android for device manufacturers.
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Nokia has clung to its Symbian software, regarded by many in the industry as outdated and unable to compete with Android and Apple's operating system.
Still, analysts say its place appears secure, thanks to aggressive moves into Europe and emerging markets, a greater focus on consumer research and an embrace of open operating systems, including Windows Mobile, Symbian and Google 's (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) Android.
The real question: will Nokia continue to focus on selling phones based on its proprietary Symbian and MeeGo operating systems, or will they shift directions and adopt Google (GOOG) Android or even Microsoft (MSFT) Windows Phone 7.
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And it tried to turn Symbian, its own operating system for smartphones, into a platform in the mould of the iPhone and Android.
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