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Nokia to acquire Symbian
Posted on June 24, 2008
Well, more precisely Nokia has announced it will acquire the approximately 52% of Symbian Limited shares it does not already own.Simultaneously, a Symbian Foundation is to be established to provide a royalty-free open platform. Such initiative is announced to be backed by Sony Ericsson, LG, Samsung (the 3 manufacturers will have no more shares in Symbian and LG/Samsung are involved in Google's Android project) Motorola, and by operators such as NTT DoCoMo, Orange and Vodafone: more information is available here.That's a way to counter the free open source approach that will be promoted by the ...
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