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LG And Samsung’s “Breakneck Pace” Too Much For Motorola? - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 02 May 2008 05:41 AM PST

Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be the world’s dominant handset maker, but Motorola should be more worried about its fleet-footed Korean rivals, LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung, according to an in-depth…

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Adobe Sets Flash Free; Aims For 40 Percent Mobile Penetration By Year’s End - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Thu 01 May 2008 04:08 AM PST

Adobe (NSDQ: ADBE) is licensing its video-enabling Flash software for free for mobile devices in an attempt to make the technology as ubiquitous on handsets as it is on PCs.…

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Sony Ericsson To Combine Flash And Java - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 30 Apr 2008 06:32 PM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has announced “new technology that lets developers combine Adobe’s (NSDQ: ADBE) Flash Lite and Java ME into a single Java application”, reports PC World.…

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Mobile Content Bits: Spike Milligan; iPhone, Prada Update; Videos - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Apr 2008 10:32 AM PST

-- Spike Milligan: The work of quintessential Goon Spike Milligan has been made available for mobile, including mobile wallpapers of his cartoons and character sketches, ringtones of Goon quotes and…

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Moto’s Marketshare Went To Incumbent Handset Vendors, Not New Entrants: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Fri 25 Apr 2008 07:33 AM PST

There has been some shuffling in the marketshare of the top five handset manufacturers, but no major change in new entrants according to Strategy Analytics. Although Motorola (NYSE: MOT) lost…

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Earnings: SonyEricsson Q1 Collapses On R&D Costs, Lower High-End Sales - 0 Comments
Posted By Robert Andrews - Wed 23 Apr 2008 12:36 AM PST

SonyEricsson (NSDQ: ERIC) sales collapsed to 2.7 billion euros ($4.3 billion) in Q1 - down eight percent from 2.92 billion euros in the year-ago period and 3.77 billion euros in…

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Sony Ericsson Preloads Def Jam Artists Onto W910i - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 08 Apr 2008 03:02 AM PST

Another handset manufacturer makes a content play. This time Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has partnered with hip hop and R ‘n B label Def Jam Records to preload…

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@ CTIA: Microsoft Launches Windows 6.1 With Few New Tricks; Others May Beat Them To It - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 01 Apr 2008 09:30 AM PST

You never know what will happen when Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) gets on the stage, but if everything stays according to plan, Robbie Bach will get up today at CTIA and…

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Sony Ericsson Warns First Quarter Profits May Fall; Blames Slowing Sales Of High End Handsets - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Wed 19 Mar 2008 07:29 AM PST

Not a good sign for mobile content, obviously. Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) said today that the market for mid-to high end phones—the ones with all the additional features…

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Big Players Like Nokia And Google May Be Threatening The Carrier Model: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Wed 12 Mar 2008 01:35 PM PST

Are the new services being developed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO), Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and others threatening the carrier’s…

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Emerging Markets And Feature-Rich Phones Upped Handset Sales in 2007: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Thu 28 Feb 2008 11:12 AM PST

Consumers thirsting for high-end phones with TV tuners, GPS, touch screens and fancy cameras, along with first-time phone owners in emerging markets, drove worldwide phone sales to 1.15 billion last…

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MWC Aftermath: The Industry ♥ the iPhone - 4 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Fri 15 Feb 2008 04:42 AM PST

The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone bandwagon rolls on. At this year’s MWC, a cross-section of execs from operators, to handset makers, to content players were singing its praises—backing them up…

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Mobile Music Leads Games 3-1 In China: Report - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Tue 12 Feb 2008 01:33 PM PST

Mobile entertainment is popular among the Chinese, with 34.8 percent reporting they listened to mobile music and 10 percent played a downloaded mobile game in December, according to M:Metrics, which…

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@ MWC Wire: Motorola; LG And Samsung Use Linux; FIFA-Ericsson; RealNetworks - 0 Comments
Posted By Amanda Natividad - Mon 11 Feb 2008 03:48 PM PST

-- *Motorola* launches mobile TV, GPS device: Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today introduced Mobile TV DH01n, a portable media player including navigation capabilities 2D or 3D GPS and Tele Atlas map…

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Sony Ericsson Not Interested In Motorola Handset Division - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 11 Feb 2008 05:19 AM PST

New Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) CEO Hideki Komiyama says the company is not interested in Motorola’s handset business, though they plan to step up their efforts to increase…

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Sony Ericsson Announces Windows Mobile Phone; Nokia Unlikely To Do The Same - 1 Comment
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Sun 10 Feb 2008 07:34 PM PST

Hours before Mobile World Congress officially kicks off, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced a new premium brand of phones today, saying that it will run Microsoft’s (NSDQ: MSFT)…

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Motorola’s Possible Spinoff: Reconfiguring The Handset Market - 1 Comment
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Mon 04 Feb 2008 08:13 AM PST

Motorola’s announcement Thursday that it was mulling over a sale or a spinoff of its cellphone division has analysts working overtime figuring out what this could mean for the handset…

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Earnings: Ericsson Cuts 4,000 Jobs, But Says Mobile Content Is Growing - 0 Comments
Posted By Tricia Duryee - Sun 03 Feb 2008 08:26 PM PST

As Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) prepares to trim 4,000 jobs, the Swedish company said Friday that its multimedia division, including TV and music, continues to be in a “build-up phase.” The…

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Motorola To Exit Handset Business? - 0 Comments
Posted By Dianne See Morrison - Tue 29 Jan 2008 09:15 AM PST

Nomura International analyst Richard Windsor has caused quite a stir with a research note published to the bank’s clients today saying that beleaguered cellphone maker Motorola (NYSE: MOT) may exit…

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Sony Ericsson Announces Plans For Music Service, Again; More Games - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 27 Jan 2008 07:23 PM PST

A bit puzzling, since Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced the exact same plans in November last year as well...this time it says it has deals with three labels,…

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Executives At Davos: Yes, Mobile Will Be Big. Seriously. - 0 Comments
Posted By Joseph Weisenthal - Fri 25 Jan 2008 04:05 PM PST

During a Davos panel Friday, the heads of Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Sony (NYSE: SNE), NBC and China Mobile expressed optimism over the future of the mobile industry, with Google’s Eric…

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Earnings: Sony Ericsson Increases Marketshare To 9 Percent - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Wed 16 Jan 2008 05:45 AM PST

Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has come out with its fourth quarter earnings, showing an 18 percent increase in unit sales compared to the fourth quarter of 2006. However,…

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Silencing Your Ringtone With Wave Of The Hand: SNE’s New Phone - 0 Comments
Posted By Rafat Ali - Sun 06 Jan 2008 08:53 PM PST

Interesting this: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is launching a phone where a user can simply wave their hand it to mute the ringtone and ignore a call. The…

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2007 Review: Big Web Brands In Mobile Have Strong Effect - 1 Comment
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Thu 20 Dec 2007 07:18 AM PST

To a large extent 2007 has been dominated by the moves of big web brands into mobile. In fact, if I was under pressure to point to the strongest effect…

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New Business Models Forcing Manufacturers Into Services - 0 Comments
Posted By James Quintana Pearce - Sun 16 Dec 2007 04:36 PM PST

A couple of press articles have written that handset manufacturers like Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) have been forced into the mobile services market by…

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