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Psion has acquired Symagery Microsystems, the Canadian provider of image processing services, for £2m. 20-Jun-2005 Psion is looking to spend up to £100m on acquisitions to expand its mobile computing business. 08-Sep-2004 Psion is to sell its 31% stake in the Symbian mobile software joint venture to Nokia for £136m, in order to focus on wireless computing devices and networks. 10-Feb-2004 Psion is to stop producing handheld computers for the consumer market, with the loss of 250 jobs, in order to focus on industrial handheld devices and high-speed networking technology. 12-Jul-2001 Psion and United Business Media have closed their Trivanti mobile internet services joint venture due to lack of demand, with the loss of 16 jobs. 22-May-2001 Psion, the manufacturer of handheld computer devices, is to shed 100 jobs and drop plans to develop a wireless personal organiser. 02-Mar-2001 Psion is to shed 120 jobs at its computer products plant in Oxford in order to transfer production to the recently-acquired Teklogix plant in Canada. 30-Jan-2001 Psion has acquired Tournachon of France for £4.3m, in order to expand its European network for the distribution of electronic organisers. 19-Oct-2000 Psion is planning to float its Symbian joint venture, which licenses the EPOC mobile operating system, but has not yet set a date. 09-Aug-2000 Psion has acquired Teklogix, the Canadian network integration company, for £243m, as part of a strategy to shift its emphasis from consumer products towards the business market. 13-Jul-2000 Psion is forming an alliance with Motorola to develop mobile internet access devices, and the product development team is expected to have more than 100 staff. 01-Feb-2000 Psion has announced a manufacturing agreement with Flextronics International, in which Flextronics will pay £370,000 for Psion's site at Greenford in west London. 03-Dec-1999 Psion is forming an alliance with Oracle to enable users of its new netBook portable PC to access Oracle database files. 26-Oct-1999 Psion has announced that Matsushita is taking an 8.8% stake in the Symbian mobile phones software joint venture at a cost of £22m. 26-May-1999 Psion is planning a strategic review of its Symbian wireless technology venture with Motorola, Ericsson and Nokia, due to concerns that further funding for Symbian could have an adverse affect on profits. 04-Mar-1999 Motorola of the US has paid £29m for a 23% stake in Symbian, the hand-held devices company set up by Psion, Ericsson and Nokia. 30-Oct-1998 Psion is reshaping its hand-held computer product range by dropping the Sienna personal organiser, phasing out the Series 3 and 3A models, and launching the cheaper and more powerful Series 3MX. 03-Sep-1998 Psion has negotiated licensing deals with Nokia, Ericsson and Motorola for the use of its computer operating system in a new generation of wireless products, and a new joint venture company called Symbian is being created. 25-Jun-1998 Psion has won a contract to supply credit-card sized modems to Dell Computers, which could be worth up to £20m next year. 16-Dec-1997 Psion has licensed its EPOC32 operating system to Philips for use in a range of pocket-sized data and messaging products. 11-Sep-1997 Psion is to launch two new handheld computers that use 32-bit technology later this year, with one of them capable of wireless digital communications. 11-Mar-1997 Psion has announced a licensing agreement with Citrix Systems of the US which will enable it to incorporate Windows-based programmes in future versions of its handheld computers. 17-Jan-1997 Psion, the hand-held computer maker, is planning to raise £14m in a share placing in order to continue to expand the business. 15-Nov-1996 Psion has introduced two new handheld computers that feature infrared communications - the Siena and the Psion 3c. 09-Sep-1996 Amstrad and Psion have called off their takeover talks due to failure to agree a price. 27-Jul-1996 Psion, the maker of handheld computers, is preparing an agreed bid for Amstrad, the computer and digital phone company, which would involve paying £234m in shares. 26-Jun-1996 Psion, the hand-held computer company, is discussing the licensing of its operating system software to other companies. 20-Mar-1996
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