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Symbian Ltd. was a software development and licensing company. It was established in 1998 as a partnership between Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, and Psion. It was acquired by Nokia in 2008.

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• Engadget: Lumia 900 owner vents Windows Phone 8 frustrations, Stephen Elop responds

  http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/lumia-900-owner-vents-windows-phone-8-frustrations-stephen-elop/
  If you've been following our Windows Phone 8 coverage today, you know that anybody who buys a Windows Phone today will not be able to upgrade to WP8 when it ships this fall.

• Engadget: Symbian Foundation Axing Websites on December 17th, Source Repositories Available 'Upon Request'

  http://www.engadget.com/2010/11/27/symbian-foundation-axing-websites-on-december-17th-source-repos/
  News that every official Symbian website will be shuttered, including every page from symbian.org, the Symbian Twitter and Facebook feeds, and the source code itself will be shelved.

• ITworld: Nokia Takes Over Symbian development

  http://www.itworld.com/personal-tech/126866/nokia-takes-over-symbian-development
  News of Nokia taking over the development of the Symbian OS and the Symbian Foundation becoming a licensing operation only.

• TechCrunch: A Look Back on Symbian on the Eve of its Demise

  http://techcrunch.com/2013/06/13/rip-symbian/
  Overview of the operating system from the beginnings to the last Nokia phone shipped with it.

• TechCrunch: Innovate Or Die: Nokia’s Long-Drawn-Out Decline

  http://techcrunch.com/2012/12/31/nokias-long-drawn-out-decline/
  Looking for the reasons behind Nokia's fall: choosing Windows Phone.

• TechCrunch: Jumping Off The Burning Platform: Nokia Knew It Was Stuck On WP7 When It Signed On

  http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/21/jumping-off-the-burning-platform-nokia-knew-it-was-stuck-on-wp7-when-it-signed-on/
  The consequences of the first Nokia handsets running Windows Phone remaining stuck on version 7 with no upgrade path to WP8.

• TechCrunch: Nokia Confirms Microsoft Partnership, New Leadership Team, Organizational Changes

  http://techcrunch.com/2011/02/10/nokia-confirms-microsoft-partnership-new-leadership-team/
  Details of the new partnership.

• TechCrunch: Nokia Confirms The PureView Was Officially The Last Symbian Phone

  http://techcrunch.com/2013/01/24/nokia-confirms-the-pure-view-was-officially-the-last-symbian-phone/
  Nokia confirmed that the 808 PureView was the very last device that the company would make on the Symbian platform.

• TechCrunch: Symbian Goes Open Source - Courtesy of Nokia

  http://techcrunch.com/2008/06/24/symbian-goes-open-source-courtesy-of-nokia/
  News of the announcement by Nokia that they will be acquiring the remaining 52% of Symbian they don’t own and will be releasing the complete Symbian platform under the Eclipse open source license.

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