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Iphone’s Popularity Helped Apple To Achieve Record Setting Figures in Q4
November 2, 2009
Apple increases iPhone sales 7% to 7.4 mln in Q3 | www.telecompaper.com
With the release of Apple’s Q4 financial figures, market dominance of Iphone is made clear. The report produced shows record setting quarter for Iphone sales. Apple has increased Iphone sales by 7% to 7.4 million in Q4 surpassing analysts’ estimates which was much below the achieved figures.
November 1, 2009
web to be truly worldwide at last | news.bbc.co.uk
As per a recent meeting in Seoul,S.Korea and ICANN's (Internet Corp. for Assigned Numbers and Names ) decision to allow users to choose full web and e-mail addresses using non-Latin character sets means the end of a TRULY world wide web and not the beginning!!It will most certainly lead to further defragmentation of the WWW and all that implies in terms of globally accepted standards and policies re content,security,best practices industrywide as well as interoperability of products/devices.
10 Habits of Incompetent Managers & The People They Hire
October 30, 2009
10 Habits of Incompetent Managers | www.fastcompany.com
After 25+ plus years in the corporate world, this is the bane of my existence and as an addendum to the FAST COMPANY list, I added the types of incoherent wheel spinners the incompetant managers typically surround themselves with:
Semiconductor & Solar Manufacturing Trends
October 30, 2009
Arizona Loses More Manufacturing & Clean Energy Opportunity | www.examiner.com
As noted in this core article, many companies such as Microsemi, who decided to close semiconductor plants, were not insightful enough to capitalize on green stimulus funding in the development of new product lines to support the emerging green revolution of energy-efficient and cleaner energy components and devices including: lighting-emitting diodes, advanced batteries, smart grid elements, low-power circuitry for ENERGY STAR appliances.
October 30, 2009
Have Apple-Verizon Talks Broken Down? | www.businessweek.com
It's not likely that Apple will push to have the iPhone on the Verizon network. The Droid ads are just one of the reasons. Here's why.
Incumbent Carriers Find Many Ways To Inhibit Entrants
October 30, 2009
Globalive phone battle headed to cabinet - The Globe and Mail | www.theglobeandmail.com
There are good reasons why the Government and regulator in Canada want to introduce more effective competition into the country's mobile market. But Canadian incumbents, like all incumbents, are determined and innovative in finding arguments and ways and means to inhibit and delay entrants who may disturb their existing profitable arrangements.
Tata Consultancy – A Force To Be Reckoned With
October 30, 2009
Software Exporter to Expand Footprint in Emerging Markets | online.wsj.com
Tata Consultancy Services has been making its presence known in North America for years. It has been operating under the radar.
Orange UK sees strength while revenues suffer interim slide
October 29, 2009
Orange UK revenues down 15pc | www.mobilenewscwp.co.uk
The competitive UK mobile (cellular) market shows signs that it can weather the current financial strains.Orange (part of France Telecom group) has seen its revenues shrink 15% yet underlying margins are holding and customers, especially contract customers have increased in Q3.Orange is also in the throws of merging with T-Mobile UK, to create the UK's largest mobile operator with reach from MVNO's, low revenue SIM only customers through contract to large enterprise customers.
Hardball 10/29/09: At Last, AT&T’s U-verse As We Know It Will Start Going Away
October 29, 2009
U-Verse Growth Is Slowing | www.lightreading.com
We expect dramatic cutbacks in U-verse CAPEX over the next two years. The service has pretty much been a bust. For AT&T, 3Q09 will probably “be identified as the quarter in which the U-verse star started to fade.”
Mobile Internet - Opportunities and Challenges
October 28, 2009
AT&T tops estimates as customers flock to wireless | www.reuters.com
Mobile Internet use is growing extremely quickly in US and Europe (Japan made their move in this direction years ago). This presents enormous opportunities for device makers of all sorts, service providers and carriers, and for businesses to find new ways to take advantage of the technologies. With all that turmoil also comes challenges and heartaches for some.
Switzerland sues Google over Street View privacy concerns
November 13, 2009
Here Come the Droids! A brief review of Verizon Wireless' new Droid line-up.
November 11, 2009
October 30, 2009
Vodafone Orange Iphone Deal Ends Two Years Exclusivity Of O2 In UK
October 5, 2009
IPhone Coma Mode puts Apple in the ICU
September 19, 2009