Due to lack of location competitiveness, Nokia plans to close its German manufacturing and automotive supply unit plant in Bochum. The moves would reduce Nokia’s work force by 2,300 positions, or about 2 percent. Currently they are in talk to sell the plant to India’s Sasken Technologies.
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The Singapore’s largest operator, Singtel, unveiled the plan on entering mobile and internet advertising business and to lead it within next 5 years. The new strategy will involve delivering an end-to-end advertising solution across four key areas – inventory creation and control of customer information, media planning, advertisement delivery and advertising campaign performance tracking. The [...]
Sony Ericsson and UK’s film magazine, Empire, calls all video maker to submit their creation for winning Empire Awards. All they have to do is remaking their favorite movie in 60 seconds using DV camera or mobile phone. The winner will hold trophy and £250, which will be crowned on March. Entries for the competition [...]
Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson is giving high priority to North America, one of its global weak spots, in 2008, the company’s new president Hideki Komiyama said. Komiyama, who took over from Miles Flint in November, said the Japanese-Swedish joint venture was still interested in emerging markets but would target higher income consumers there, not [...]
After the patent battle last November, Qualcomm and Nokia, the world’s largest cell phone maker, have agreed to a cease-fire in their sprawling patent dispute until they decide if a Delaware court is the best place to settle their differences.
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Finally, in CES Nokia announced its service regarding online service application. Christened as Ovi, which is Finnish of “door”, is new suite of applications, allowing user to experience some excellent functionality on the mobile web. A few of the applications include things like Nokia Maps or access to the N-Gage gaming market, but the emphasis [...]
Nokia Philippines warns communities not to buy fake handset in local market. A team from the Asia Pacific region is now coordinating with local enforcement agencies to conduct an investigation on the sale of these fake products, which is likely violating the company’s brand, said Nikka Singson-Abes, corporate communications manager of Nokia Philippines Inc., in [...]
In the latest Consumer Electronic Show, finally LG launched “a phone”. Well, not yet physically a phone since it is actually a watch phone. Not like Sony Ericsson’s bluetooth watch, which only use watch as bluetooth receiver, this watch is really a phone. It has menu and we can use it to talk (must be [...]
NTT DoCoMo announced that their i-channel services surpassed 15 millions subscribers on January 3, 2008. i-channel is a push service that automatically sends scrolling-text headlines to a phone’s standby screen. The headlines come from the i-channel site, which is arranged into five information channels: weather, news, sports & entertainment, horoscopes and recommended i-mode sites.
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The use of bluetooth headset among ladies seems growing everyday. But as most of the user are male, functionality comes first instead of design style. Sony Ericsson answers it by launching bluetooth headset with female touch.
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