Adobe Systems, the developer of software for PCs and mobile phones that allows devices to create, display and interact with rich-media content, has revealed that development of its Flash Player software for mobile phones is well underway, in partnership with a growing number of hardware and software firms, including most of the leading handset manufacturers.
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Last week, three of Japan’s largest consumer electronics companies agreed to combine their mobile handset businesses in a stand-alone joint venture. The stated aim is to help the three companies - Casio, NEC and Hitachi - to make significant savings in production and marketing costs and to improve their positions in the cut-throat domestic market.
The venture, a [...]
Nokia unveiled the technical specifications of its new netbook, the Booklet 3G, at the Nokia World conference last week. Aside from a few grumbles about the choice of operating system (OS) and the lack of certain features and technical capabilities, I reckon the product is on a par with a host of laptops and netbooks [...]
In Juniper’s recent report examining the trends and opportunities facing operators and handset vendors alike in the fast-growing low-cost handsets field, we found that one of the key hurdles in getting phones into the hands of those on very low or subsistence-level incomes was the total cost of ownership (TCO) of the phones themselves.
Over the next [...]
By now, most of the major mobile handset manufacturers have announced results for Q209 and, bar any unforeseen developments at late reporters such as ZTE, these results were a little better than I’d been expecting.
Nevertheless, with approximately 269 million devices shipping in the quarter just gone, this performance is still around 9% down on the [...]
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