Nokia Symbian deal winners and losers

After an expansion phase that saw the introduction of the iPhone, Android, LiMo, and JavaFX Mobile, the mobile phone platform landscape is shrinking again. Nokia today announced it plans to spend $410 million to acquire the pieces of Symbian Ltd. that it doesn’t already own, and then give it away as open source under the Eclipse Public License. If that weren’t enough, they got several of their competitors to chip in their own front-end assets and join a new Symbian Foundation that will provide overall governance to the combined project.

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Nokia Buys Symbian, Takes the Mobile OS Open-Source

By Michael Calore June 24th, 2008 Categories: Mobile, Operating Systems

Google and Apple aren’t the only corporate giants intent on shaking up the wireless industry. Nokia announced Monday night that it is acquiring software maker Symbian — the company was already a minority stock holder — and releasing its mobile operating system under an open-source license.

The mobile hardware manufacturer, which uses Symbian software across it’s range of extremely popular S60 devices, is also establishing the Symbian Foundation, a collective of hardware and software companies who have pledged to donate code and resources to Symbian’s development. Phone makers Motorola and Sony Ericsson are on board. Among others, carriers NTT DoCoMo and AT&T and hardware component maker Texas Instruments have pledged support.

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By Open Sourcing Symbian, Nokia Kicks Off the Mobile Age

The mobile software age is here.

Symbian co-founder Nokia announced Monday night that it is buying the 52 percent of the software maker that it doesn’t already own and releasing its mobile operating system under an open source license.

With that move, Symbian joins two other major platforms — the Google-backed Android operating system and Apple’s OS X iPhone — that give programmers tools for creating and deploying software for smartphones.

The Symbian OS dominates the world market, with about 60 percent of the installed base among smartphones.

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SUBTEL PUBLICA ESPERADO REGLAMENTO DE VOZ SOBRE INTERNET

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Con referencia a los derechos y obligaciones del concesionario, se contempla lo siguiente:

• El servicio de voz sobre Internet se considera un Servicio Público, distinto al Servicio Público Telefónico y su prestación requiere una concesión.
• Se establece un bloque de numeración con características ageográficas, es decir, sin importar donde el usuario esté conectado a Internet, mantiene su número (similar a la telefonía móvil).
• El concesionario deberá informar al usuario respecto a la calidad de servicio que está prestando.
• El servicio no está sujeto al uso de multiportador para las comunicaciones de larga distancia.
• No tiene guía telefónica
• Podrán interconectarse con la red pública telefónica directa o indirectamente usando medios propios o de terceros, asumiendo el costo de las interconexiones
• Está sujeto a la interceptación telefónica conforme a las normativas de seguridad pública establecidas por ley.
• La implementación del acceso a los servicios de emergencia es obligatoria y permanente.
• Las responsabilidades del concesionario del servicio, se separan de las responsabilidades del prestador del servicio de banda ancha y del proveedor del acceso a Internet (ISP).
• Están sujetos a cumplir el Reglamento de Resolución de Reclamos.
• Están sujetos a la obligación de entregar una Cuenta Única.

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Descargue el Decreto Nº 484 (descargar archivo)

Comenta esta noticia en el Blog de Subtel.

Santiago, 16 de junio de 2008.-

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Chile regulariza la telefonía por internet

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Con referencia a los derechos y obligaciones del concesionario, se contempla lo siguiente:
● El servicio de voz sobre internet se considera un servicio público, distinto al servicio público telefónico y su prestación requiere una concesión.
● Se establece un bloque de numeración geográfica, es decir, sin importar donde el usuario esté conectado a internet, mantiene su número.
● El concesionario deberá informar al usuario respecto a la calidad de servicio que está prestando.
● Está sujeto a la interceptación telefónica conforme a las normativas de seguridad pública establecidas por ley.
● La implementación del acceso a los servicios de emergencia es obligatoria y permanente.
● Los concesionarios del servicio están sujetos a cumplir el reglamento de resolución de reclamos y a la obligación de entregar una cuenta única.

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New iPhone Raises Smart-Phone Security Concerns

Enterprises should keep an eye on managing smart-phone security in preparation for the arrival of the new iPhone.

With the new version of Apple’s iPhone on the way, enterprises need to be ready to deal with the security implications of employees’ smart phones.

Whether IT organizations are ready or not, smart phones are a reality for enterprises. Gartner analysts predicted in a January report that smart-phone sales will reach about 173 million in 2008, a jump of 42 percent from last year. The iPhone 3G, slated to be available July 11, is Apple’s latest attempt to capitalize on consumers’ desire for Internet-enabled phones with more and more functionality.

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India May Crack Blackberry Encryption

By Marin Perez
InformationWeek
June 13, 2008 03:38 PM

An Indian government official said his country may use third-party tools to crack the encryption used by Research In Motion (NSDQ: RIMM)’s BlackBerrys if the company doesn’t open up its network.”If they fail to come up with any satisfactory solution, we will invoke other options. We have been approached by other companies with solutions to decrypt the data passed over the BlackBerry network,” said Telecom Minister A Raja during a presentation to the country’s Department of Telecommunications.

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