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European Union donates €22 million to Symbian
Daniel Carey
Symbian, the world’s most used open-source platform — as well as the platform currently being used throughout Nokia’s phone line — has just recieved a €22 million ($30.8 million) investment from ARTEMIS Joint Technology Initiative. A semi public-private company in the European Union for the continual development of embedded systems, ARTEMIS, has contributed the donation to help with lead development of the Symbian Foundation’s newest consortium, SYMBEOSE — which you know, means “Symbian - the Embedded Operating System for Europe.” The newest consortium is currently comprised of 24 organisations from eight of the European Union Nations.
Yeah, we were a little confused at first as well, but hopefully the excerpt below should help clear some things up:
Broadly speaking, the proposed advances to the Symbian platform will focus on radically improving the basis for new device creation on Symbian. Additional work will concentrate on a set of core platform enablers that will support the types of mobile services that will be most prevalent in the near future. For example, the SYMBEOSE initiative will develop new core platform capabilities, providing the best possible levels of power efficiency and improving Symbian’s current, market-leading offering in this area. This will be achieved by delivering fresh optimizations which harness the rapidly developing area of multi-core processing used in conjunction with new techniques in Asymmetrical Multiprocessing.
Another good example relates to new concepts in “cloud-computing”. Although this is already having a huge impact on the way in which personal content is being consumed and managed, the technical basis of how cloud computing should be supported for future mobile devices is still poorly defined. - The Official Symbian Foundation Blog
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