Canada-based smartphone-maker Research In Motion (RIM) has unveiled its fourth quarter and year-end results for fiscal 2008 (year ending February 28, 2009), wherein it has achieved a much better than expected performance in terms of revenue and customer growth. The earlier news from semiconductor maker Texas Instruments that demand for components is beginning to recover has prompted a [...]
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Mobile network operators, keen to raise data consumption levels, are increasingly offering heavily subsidised mobile computers to subscribers, either as a stand-alone proposition or as part of a ‘bundle’ of features alongside a standard mobile telephony service. This trend isn’t new, by any means, particularly in Europe, but it’s interesting to hear rumours that Verizon Wireless of [...]
“May you live in interesting times.” That’s one euphemism that many of the leading players in the mobile handsets market could live without hearing at the moment. This week alone, we’ve seen Nokia announce sweeping job cuts and operational streamlining, rumours have surfaced that Motorola may offer up its handsets division to private investors and that Sony might buy out [...]
I suppose it was inevitable, given the intensity of the media focus on the handset industry’s collective leap onto the smartphone bandwagon, but it seems that hardly a day can go by without another technology company getting in on the act. It’s been announced that Taiwan-based PDA and computer equipment maker ASUSTeK Computer is teaming [...]
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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