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Computer Giants Eye Smartphone Market


by Andy Kitson on January 30th, 2009

Computer makers Acer and Dell are said to be developing high-end mobile phones to complement their successful laptop and desktop computer portfolios. Such a move would not only help to sustain growth during the recession, but also put them in a better position to counter the growing threat of rival Apple, which has enjoyed enormous success in this [...]

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Digital Britain 2012: Pipe Dream or Dumb Pipes?


by Andy Kitson on January 29th, 2009

Today, the UK government released some preliminary thoughts on how best to make broadband networks and services available nationwide and to ensure that the country will be one of the driving new media economies by 2012.
This interim report, ambitiously titled ‘Digital Britain‘, identifies many of the market drivers and hurdles facing the broadband sector in the [...]

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Samsung: 3G, Smartphones Drive Market Growth


by Andy Kitson on January 23rd, 2009

Samsung Electronics sold almost 200 million mobile handsets in 2008, a 24% improvement on the previous year. Thus, the company has become the only handset vendor, so far, to have reported y-o-y improvements in handset shipment volumes in each consecutive quarter of 2008. Indeed, this achievement is vastly superior to the overall 5-6% growth recorded by the [...]

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Nokia: Mobile device sales to fall 10% in 2009


by Andy Kitson on January 22nd, 2009

It’s safe to say that the mobile phone industry was waiting with bated breath for market leader Nokia to deliver its fourth-quarter and full year results for 2008. It did so this morning, claiming that the number of mobile devices sold in 2008 is in the order of 6% higher than in 2007.
Not great news, but not [...]

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New phone features ‘baffle users’


by Howard Wilcox on January 21st, 2009

There’s been much published this week on this topic – I call it “application slickness” and it’s one of the keys to mass adoption of mobile commerce services. At Juniper Research we have recently published reports about new mobile commerce services such as mobile banking, mobile ticketing and mobile coupons. Users must be able to [...]

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