Firefox Mobile (Fennec) developer is still focusing on the development for Linux and Windows Mobile platforms. But according to the Gartner statistics 49.8% smart phone market is dominated by Symbian, and right away Mozilla decided to start working on a Symbian version.

There are also several other platforms such as the iPhone, Rim (BlackBerry) and Android that will be popular ones, but these market will not be touched because the Mozilla license and or technical reasons.

Mozilla is targeting the completion of simple browsing features in February 2009 and full browsing features by the end of April 2009. Fennec Beta Version will be released soon after the full completion.

Apple announced on Wednesday that the year 2009 will be the last year for Apple to participate in the event of Macworld as an annually conference to discuss specifically a variety of Apple products. Furthermore Steve Jobs, CEO of Apple who always comes to open the event with his speech will not be present at the upcoming Macworld. Philip Schiller, senior VP international marketing division will represent Jobs to open Macworld 2009.

The official reason given that absence of Jobs in Macworld is because Apple is now reaching many people in more ways than before, as well as many other companies, the conference is only a small part of Apple programs to reach consumers.

The popularity of Apple retail stores that visited by more than 3.5 million people every week and Apple.com web  service allow Apple to directly reach hundreds of millions of visitors around the world with new innovative ways. In the last few years, Apple began to gradually reduce the participation in Macworld including Macworld New York, Macworld Tokyo and Apple Expo in Paris. (more…)