Nokia to Acquire and Open Source Symbian

Blogger zyzko writes on SlashDot: "Nokia has placed an offer on Symbian stock — it currently owns a 48% share and intends to buy the other shareholders out, 91% of the stockholders have already agreed. The press has already labeled this as an countermeasure to fight Android. Nokia has also created Symbian foundation — it might mean more open Symbian." Symbian is "currently the world's dominant smartphone operating system (206 million phones shipped, 18.5 million in Q1 2008)," writes reader thaig, who points out coverage in the Economic Times. If this deal goes through as expected, the Foundation says that selected components of the Symbian operating system would be made available as open source at launch under the Eclipse Public License (EPL) 1.0 , with the rest of the platform following over the next two years.

Symbian Foundation

NotifyLink supports the Symbian OS S60 r3 devices with full email and PIM.

Talk about a subsidy...how do I get one?

Cnet news.com writer Tom Krazit reports that AT and T is paying Apple $325 per iPhone 3G! Yair Reiner that claims Apple will wind up getting just as much revenue from the subsidies as it did from the revenue-sharing agreement between Apple and AT and T that was in place before the introduction of the iPhone 3G last week.




The actual price of the iPhone doesn't matter to most people, but certain AT and T customers who might not be eligible for the upgrade price of $199 or $299 will likely have to pay the unsubsidized price--or something close to it-- for the iPhone 3G. Current iPhone owners are eligible for the $199 price, as are new AT and T customers, but some AT and T customers who use another smartphone and have been with the carrier for a short time might have to pay the higher price.
And it matters to AT and T, obviously. The company raised the price of its iPhone data plans by $10 a month to offset the subsidies it's paying to Apple. AT and T is throwing an awful lot of cash at Apple from the start, rather than on an ongoing basis as was the case with the revenue-sharing agreement. Still, the heavy subsidies will be worth it if iPhone 3Gs start flying off the shelves on July 11.

NotifyLink for the Apple iPhone

I'm hearing some buzz that Notify Technology will have a client for the iPhone soon.
Does anyone have any news? Sounds like this will be big!

iPhone for GroupWise

It appears the word is out. NotifyLink will be supporting the iPhone on GroupWise later this summer! Check it out...http://GWCheck.com/gtml. NotifyLink's support is not only limited to just the iPhone either. NotifyLink's On Demand & On Premise solutions also supports Blackberry, Palm, Windows Mobile and Symbian Series 60 devices.

On-Demand hosted support for Scalix

Notify Technology Corporation (NTFY) just announced NotifyLink On-Demand hosted service support for Scalix. System will be ready to start accepting hosted customers on Monday June 23. Systems in the U.K., hosted by London Web and in Switzerland hosted by European Center for Operational Support will also offer the NotifyLink hosted service for Scalix.

Scalix is now part of 13 different platforms supported by NotifyLink. There are rumors flying at the San Jose company headquarters regarding support for a new platform, called "lucky 13". We don't know which email and PIM collaborative platform this might be but insiders hint at the big building across the valley closer to the mountains, with the word GOOGLE on the top.

More to come on integration of NotifyLink for GOOGLE mobile in an upcoming article.

This is on top of the upcoming NotifyLink for iPhone2.0 release from Apple (APPL). Amazing stuff from Notify Technology Corporation!

Great site for BlackBerry lovers

Check out the site http://www.pinstack.com/ for some great info on BlackBerrys (RIMM). These guys keep their ears to the ground for all that's new in the BB world.

Lot's of free stuff to check out and play with. Their mailing list is highly recommended if you love your BlackBerry like we do ours.