According to eWeek, the Symbian Foundation is working on an "application inventory" where developers will not be charged a fee or percentage to distribute their applications via the foundation's channel.

The Symbian Foundation today announced the Zoom OMAP34x-II mobile development platform (MDP) based on OMAP technology from Texas Instruments as the first standard hardware development platform for developers. Using the Zoom OMAP34x-II MDP, Symbian developers will be able to quickly and easily validate smartphone and Mobile Internet Device (MID) applications that will run on Symbian^3 - the next release of the Symbian platform and is targeted for development in 2H 2009.

I have just received an email from the Symbian Foundation telling me that registration is now open to all (at least most) companies. IMHO, it is quite strange to receive such mail today, while last week at Barcelona the only information we could get is that the registrations would be available soon...

Plans for the Symbian Foundation and the evolution of Symbian OS as the leading, open platform for mobile innovation moved closer to reality today, as Nokia announced that it had completed its offer to acquire Symbian Limited. Since plans for the Symbian Foundation were announced, almost 60 organizations have endorsed the initiative and more than three hundred more have registered their interest in joining the foundation.

Nokia today announced that it has completed its offer to acquire Symbian Limited. All
conditions to Nokia’s offer to acquire Symbian Limited have been satisfied and it has received valid acceptance
of greater than 99.9% of the total Symbian shares that Nokia did not already own.

Nokia's soon-to-be open source Symbian platform received a boost yesterday with the news that Opera Software is to join the Symbian Foundation.Opera Software has joined forces with the Symbian Foundation to push mobile browsing technology forward. Opera has an unparalleled track record in giving users a full Web experience. Opera Mobile ships on more than 100 million handsets from major mobile phone manufacturers and operators worldwide.