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Nokia needs to make this play work to ensure their 500million sales keep going as phones mutate into mini-laptops and voice is a small part of the offering.

Like the credit crunch, you probably can't escape Cloud Computing.     

Whilst the US has seen an explosion in Mobile Banking it is yet to see the users trust the service for Payments. Payments needs to address not just the Banked but the Unbanked, in Africa Vodafone and MTN have  established services that allow micropayments to be made to those that have no Bank Accounts. ...

The market is still fragmented. In the big five we still see a wide spread of take up as consumers are yet to be won over. The mobile networks are still to discover a range of products that make the investment pay off. This talks about terminals rather than handsets and so a slowing of sales of phones...

This is something that they should have launched 12 months ago.  Failing that then we should have seen it in February at GSM World. The design is dated and the technology is out of date. This new handset is not going to have Networks placing orders outside of the US.  At best this gets a C...

With ever more of the business done by Nokia in the Emerging Markets just how important is a handset with such a rich feature set? The Blackberry like E71 whilst attractive suffers from a limited number of Enterprise Applications. How does these handsets fit into the OVI service?

When Colao left McKinsey to help run Omnitel as the COO he showed that he was more that a "Strategy Man" working alongside Francesco Ciao he showed that he was someone vary capable at Operational matters.  With Cioa gone, he steppped up to the CEO role and integrated the Omnitel into Vodafone....

Looking at the services businesses of Qualcomm and what you see is the development of a number of verticals.  One of which is BREW; the others are Location, Advertising, Payments, Video.  These services are aimed at helping to create Federations for particular services.  Having created...

Murdoch is back in Germany? (Potential) investors of Premiere and other German TV and cable assets ought to know: Is this a savy move of a shrewd businessman or a dull act of an aging tycoon to the only place in the world where he has, so far, failed.

Facebook will follow Myspace and launch a German version of its service, some time in the first half of 2008. While Facebook has faced criticism in the USA for the way it introduced a new model of targeted advertising (Facebook Beacon), the issue of monetizing the user behavior of its...