The year 2007 could be called the year of the mobile operating system. Since Microsoft entered the scene around five years ago, the smartphone operating system industry has been fairly stable. Symbian ...

Google’s Android and Apple’s iOS strengthened their positions in the global smartphone operating system market in the fourth quarter of 2012 as the number of shipments grew 42% year over year, ...

SUWON, South Korea (Reuters) - Samsung Electronics plans to launch the first smartphone based on its own operating system in the next few weeks, as it seeks to catch up with bigger rivals in the ...

A market research group has teamed up with a business analyst to conceptualize the notion that mobile operating systems only last for ten years, peaking after five, an idea that suggests Apple and ...

The smartphone landscape has long been dominated by two major players: Google's Android and Apple's iOS. These operating systems (OS) power billions of devices worldwide, offering users a familiar ...

The Symbian mobile operating system is getting a second life as the Symbian Foundation makes the smartphone platform open source. The lifeline will revitalize the platform, and has benefits for Nokia, ...

A recent report put out by ComScore highlights the top smartphone operating systems in use in the US over the last nine-month period, which is topped out by RIM devices by an impressive margin. The ...