GLG News by Smart Phone Software Experts (North America)

- Palm may have addressed an emerging issue - application optimized devices - with its Foleo, but  - The solution is not practical - it is costly and lacks a compelling usage scenario

- The market for mobile data services, even those closely related to office applications, is large and growing rapidly

- Motorola pulled of a once-in-a-decade coup with its RAZR handset - Since there is nothing “sticky” about the RAZR, Motorola will have to focus on design as well as applications and services to create an attractive handset portfolio to achieve its growth targets

Salesforce.com is the next Siebel, the next CRM has-been, the next low-priced software buyout opportunity, unless somehow the company gets sold before its stock begins to tank or it engineers a remarkable turnaround from its current moribund strategy SF.com doesn’t have a critical mass of customers...

- Cingular Wireless, established in 2001, emerged as a top US wireless brand - With the AT&T acquisition of Bell South (and full ownership of Cingular Wireless) and the resulting AT&T re-branding, the Cingular brand is being jettisoned, and the expensive brand building exercise begins, once...

Microsoft announced plans buy digital ad firm aQuantive, which owns Atlas and Avenue A | Razorfish for $6 billion in cash.  This  is apparently the biggest acquisition in Microsoft's history. Microsoft won a competitive bidding situation

3G handsets are cost reduced to sub $30, 3G allows higher capacity, 3G coverls longer distance. This is a perfect business model for the Indian market !

- Mobile operators are attracting interest from private equity firms as well as other operators - The US has only a few mobile operator acquisition candidates, while some markets have even fewer 

The Venezuelan state will own 86.21 percent of the shares of CANTV The transaction was expected to be finalized in an extraordinary meeting on May 21 Chavez announced his nationalization drive shortly after his landslide reelection in December.

How is this a good move for Hutchison?  What advantages does this pose for Vodafone?  And what about Essar?