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Comment Symbian has 49.5% ww smartphone market share (Score 4, Informative) 88

For developers looking to make money, and use a very rich set of APIs/functionality, Symbian is the way to go. Gartner recently announced that Symbian has 49.5% of ww smart phone market share (300m+ devices). The distribution channel potential is there for developers to take advantage of now - not some unknown time in the future. Note that Symbian also has Runtime dev environments for Web, Python, and Adobe Flash Lite - who else has that?
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Symbian Foundation Takes First Step In Open Sourcing Mobile OS 88

readthemall writes to let us know that the Symbian Foundation has released the first of several packages in their plan to open source the entire Symbian mobile OS. "On Wednesday, Symbian made available its first package covered by the EPL, the OS Security Package, according to Symbian developer Craig Heath. 'The OS Security Package source code is now available under the EPL, and it is the very first package to be officially moved from the closed Symbian Foundation License (SFL) to... the EPL,' Heath wrote in a blog post. Heath said the EPL would allow the security package to bypass export regulations in the UK, where the Symbian code is legally based."

Comment Context and Relvancy (Score 1) 158

For those who have not yet used Krugle, check out a posting by Justin Royce a while back - his review is fairly complete. (http://webtekconcepts.com/2006/11/30/krugle-goes- grassroots/) Search engines ultimately are judged on the accuracy and relevancy of their results. Krugle parses the code to understand the context. The relevancy is based on whether the result is in a function call or class def vs comments etc, and Krugle leverages project meta data such as number of committers and frequency of project updates to accurately prioritize search results.

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