Microsoft, Symbian heat up battle for Mobile web
Reuters | at | by Mike
Mobile phone software makers Microsoft and Symbian upped the ante at the world's largest wireless trade show on Monday, claiming new customers and shareholders as operators gear up to bring games and the Internet to handsets. Microsoft announced its second European operator to buy a design for its smartphone in Germany's T-Mobile, a unit of Deutsche Telekom, while Britain's Symbian said it had signed up the fifth of the world's top-five phone makers as an investor: South Korea's Samsung Electronics.
The announcements underline the clash emerging at the annual Cannes 3GSM conference as mobile phone hardware makers face a looming competitive threat from Intel, Microsoft and a host of Asian electronics companies.