Symbian is happening platform

At the current Symbian developer conference, there has been a number of interesting tidbits regarding this, highly European, platform.
The Symbian platform, currently behind smart-phones from Nokia and Sony-Ericsson has gained support as Siemens joins Sony-Ericsson, Nokia, Motorola, Matsushita (Panasonic) and Psion as owners of the consortium behind the platform.
Being a strong potential player in the European smart-phone market, this is far from an insignificant move.

Also, Symbian announced a partnership with Intel, moving the Symbian platform to Intel's X-Scale processor series, as well as building in support for Bluetooth and 802.11x wireless networking.
With it's existing feature-set and support by handset manufacturers this gives Symbian OS an interesting position in the future smart-phone OS market, in direct competition with Microsofts newest releases in that space. My money is on Symbian to become a dominating platform in that area.

Open Ether... Open Group - News from the Danish WLAN scene. Started by a handful of the most successful Danish *Internet entrepreneurs, headed by Internet legal specialist Martin Von Haller Grønbæk, "Åben Æter" (loosely translated: Open Ether) aims at being an interest goal with the explicit goal of increasing access to wireless communications. One way to do this is to lobby the proper authorities to offer up more radio spectrum for license-free use, and generally to increase public awareness of the possibilities of wireless communications. Interesting initiative guys!