Microsoft to launch Silverlight for Symbian beta within a week

When Nokia and Microsoft announced their partnership a few months ago, most people back then all but left Symbian OS for dead. Since then, there have been a couple of major updates to the OS, and the news just keep pouring. Today, Nokia and Microsoft announced that the latest productivity apps from the software giant will gradually become available for Symbian Belle.

The apps will come to the...

We may never see Flash on iOS, but that's not stopping other OSes. The newer and less popular Silverlight, which is Microsoft's alternative to Flash, is spreading to mobile OSes too - the Symbian^1 version just...

Microsoft said on Monday that it is making a Release Candidate (RC) version of Silverlight 4 for download.
At a keynote for Microsoft's MIX 2010 keynote, Scott Guthrie, Vice president of Microsoft's Developer Division, outlined Silverlight 4. Silverlight 4 includes webcam and microphone support, multicast streaming, output protection and offline DRM....

Nokia today announced that it is partnering with Microsoft to deliver Symbian software updates called Microsoft Apps to Symbian Belle devices. Using the on-board phone update tools, Symbian Belle devices will have access to a number of Microsoft productivity applications later this year. The apps include: Microsoft Lync for enterprise IM and collaboration; PowerPoint Broadcast for pushing PowerPoint presentations from PCs to mobile phones; OneNote with SkyDrive for note-taking; and Document Connection for viewing Microsoft documents on Symbian Belle phones.

Microsoft said on Tuesday that Silverlight 4 will be released on April 15.  The update includes many key additions including support for Google’s Chrome browser.  This additional support should help with the adoption of the platform as it competes head to head with Flash.
Silverlight 4 includes webcam and microphone support,...

Scott Guthrie, VP of Microsoft's Developer Division, originally demonstrated a Silverlight client for Facebook during his PDC 2009 keynote late last year.
Today Microsoft has made the Silverlight Client available for Windows and Mac OS X users to install. The client requires Silverlight 4 and installs a simple link to the...

Color us surprised! It was only last week that Nokia was done with the i-dotting and t-crossing of the Symbian Anna update and now they are ready to unveil the next Symbian iteration. Called Belle, the next Symbian version will be announced in just a couple of days, when the timer set up on the Nokia Facebook page reaches zero.

The Finnish company was obviously trying to build up some hype,...

Color us surprised! It was only last week that Nokia was done with the i-dotting and t-crossing of the Symbian Anna update and now they are ready to unveil the next Symbian iteration. Called Belle, the next Symbian version will be announced in just a couple of days, when the timer set up on the Nokia Facebook page reaches zero.

The Finnish company was obviously trying to build up some hype,...