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 [...]
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We knew it would get worse before it starts to get better, but the first-quarter results that deluged the industry this week pretty much confirmed earlier warnings from industry-leaders such as Nokia and Samsung that the handset market could contract by 10% or more this year.
The worst of the pain should already be over, though, with the [...]
It’s Friday, so it must be time for another story about Nokia. Or LTE. This time it’s both, as it happens…
Reports are emerging that the smartphone maker is developing a high-end ‘data-intensive’ touchscreen-based device that will work on the LTE (long term evolution) network soon to be rolled out by Verizon Wireless across the US. It [...]
Nokia’s CEO claims that the company is ‘actively looking’ to get into the computer market, possibly through creating its own family of mobile computers.
On the face of it, and given the success Nokia has been enjoying in the smartphones and mobile Internet services markets, this seems to be a canny move. It would also underline Nokia’s vision of a [...]
I have to admit to being slightly bemused by Microsoft’s announcement yesterday that it’s planning to set up its own retail stores business. The company has done exceedingly well in getting its software and solutions preloaded onto many device manufacturers’ products, from computers to games consoles, and by making the best use of alternative distribution [...]
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