Big news for the Mobile future: Nokia acquired Symbian and seems to steps in the foot prints of Google Android:
“Finnish cellphone maker Nokia Corp said on Tuesday it was buying out other shareholders of UK-based handset software firm Symbian Ltd, and opening the software for royalty-free use.
The net cash outlay from Nokia to buy the approximately 52 percent of Symbian shares it does not already own will be about 264 million euros ($410 million).
Nokia said Sony Ericsson, Ericsson, Panasonic and Siemens have accepted the offer, and it also expects Samsung Electronics to accept it.
Nokia also said it had formed Symbian Foundation together with AT&T, NTT DoCoMo, Vodafone, and chip makers Texas Instruments and STMicroelectronics.”
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