Baidu, Symbian to Establish Joint Lab
Symbian PR, 6/08/10
Chinese internet company Baidu (Nasdaq: BIDU) and the Symbian Foundation today announced a strategic initiative where the two parties will co-establish a joint laboratory to stimulate the development and launch of wireless “box computing” that will be tightly integrated with the Symbian platform. Combining Symbian’s wireless expertise in smartphone platforms and Baidu’s R&D strength in search engines, the two will drive the joint development, integration and launch of wireless “box computing” within the Symbian platform architecture.
According to this strategic agreement, the Symbian Foundation will open the necessary platform technology interfaces for Baidu to enable wireless "box computing" deep within the Symbian middleware layer, facilitating the full integration of Baidu’s wireless "box computing" into the Symbian platform. Both sides intend to encourage third-party developers to incorporate "box computing" in applications and web services that support Symbian and the companies will jointly provide a complete "box computing" platform solution to handset manufacturers and operators. To promote "box computing" innovation on Symbian, the results of the Box Computing Joint Laboratory will be shared with the entire mobile industry and be made available through the Symbian Foundation’s open source efforts.
Keywords: mobile search Internet Symbian wireless Baidu BIDU box computing mobile OS
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