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Nokia bought Symbian
The Finnish phone giant in a press release reported that Nokia buys rest of the company Symbian, because before that Nokia has had a part of the company's shares.
Nokia uses the Symbian platform for many many years, and S60 - the world's most popular platform for smartphones, designed as on Symbian. But the fun is just beginning: instead of using all the intellectual achievements of Symbian for their own purposes, Nokia transfers of intellectual property at the disposal of the non-profit Foundation Symbian Foundation. The members of the fund are such companies as Motorola, SonyEricsson, NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone, LG, Samsung. This acquisition - a pre-emptive move against Google Open Handset Alliance - another attempt standartarizirovat smartphone interface. The amount of the transaction is 264 million euros.
Nokia uses the Symbian platform for many many years, and S60 - the world's most popular platform for smartphones, designed as on Symbian. But the fun is just beginning: instead of using all the intellectual achievements of Symbian for their own purposes, Nokia transfers of intellectual property at the disposal of the non-profit Foundation Symbian Foundation. The members of the fund are such companies as Motorola, SonyEricsson, NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone, LG, Samsung. This acquisition - a pre-emptive move against Google Open Handset Alliance - another attempt standartarizirovat smartphone interface. The amount of the transaction is 264 million euros.
