We will look at how mobile phones have increasingly become the target of malware authors. In June 2004, security researchers were sent copies of the first mobile virus, Cabir, a worm that infected the ...

Ingeniously, it used an attack vector common to nearly all Symbian smartphones, Bluetooth, appearing as a .SIS file installed in the phone’s apps directory. The virus itself was harmless ...

writes I must admit I've always been a fan of the Symbian smartphone platform and its predecessor, Psion, but when I decided to go to the Symbian Expo, I wasn't sure what to expect. I'd never ...

Software firm UIQ Technology will launch version 3.0 of its namesake user interface for Symbian smartphones at the 3GSM World Congress in Cannes. The new release supports both pen-driven and ...

It was discovered in June 2004 and primarily targeted devices running the Symbian operating system, which was commonly used in Nokia smartphones at the time. Cabir was a worm that spread via ...

One of the brave but unsuccessful plays from Nokia during their glory years was the N-Gage, an attempt to merge a Symbian smartphone and a handheld game console. It may not have managed to ...

Nokia’s proprietary Symbian OS was dominant, and its feature phones were bestsellers in both developed and emerging markets. However, as technology evolved and consumer preferences shifted ...