Motorola Buys 50% Interest In UIQ

Submitted by tuxtops on Tue, 10/16/2007 - 19:20

Yesterday Motorola and Sony Ericsson announced that Motorola will acquire a 50% interest in the parent company of UIQ Technology AB and will jointly develop the UIQ open user interface. UIQ is based on the Symbian platform and both companies have agreed that UIQ will be vendor and chip set independent, a move hoped to bring other vendors into UIQ.