Quite impressive, LG Shine series has been sold for 5 million units worldwide since the launch in its original country, Korea, on last year October, and Europe on February. LG is going to launched HSDPA version of the series in the US. Part of LG Shine series are LG KE770 Shine, LG KE970 Shine, LG KU970 Shine, LG Shine CU720. Currently LG resides on number 5 in Gartner market share report. Source: akihabaranews via Mobile-review

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 6th, 2007 No Comments »

Padmasree Warrior, Motorola's high profile Chief Technology Officer (CTO), will step down from her position following the succession of CEO chair. Warrior, who had appointed CTO since 2003, according to Motorola spokeswoman, Jennifer Erickson, the move was planned several months ago. Her official blog has already being shut down.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 4th, 2007 1 Comment »

As the news spread, Motorola CEO, Ed Zander will step down by the end of this year. He will be replaced by current President and COO, Greg Brown. He has tough job, since phone competition is now filled with big major player, including Apple's iPhone.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on December 1st, 2007 2 Comments »

Gartner reported that during the third quarter 2007, Sweden-Japan manufacturer, Sony Ericsson still maintain its position in fourth place of global handset market share. The number is shortly increasing to 8.8%. Nokia still holds the first position, followed by Samsung, and Motorola.

Posted by Amir Karimuddin on November 27th, 2007 No Comments »

Cellular-news.com keeps a counter to track which news articles are of most interest to you, the readers. As an end-of-year idea, below are the most popular stories published on cellular-news as read by yourselves over the past year, in order of popularity.

Posted by Budi Putra on January 2nd, 2007 2 Comments »

Oracle recently announced that Oracle Identity Manager, a component of the Oracle Identity and Access Management Suite, has been positioned in Gartner’s Leaders Quadrant of the 1H06 User Provisioning Magic Quadrant report. Gartner positions vendors in the “Leaders” quadrant based on their completeness of vision and ability to execute. According to Gartner, user-provisioning implementations are increasing due to regulatory compliance needs. In the report, Gartner states, Identity and Access Management (IAM) solutions solve two main functions: administration of user-attributes, credentials, and privileges; and real-time enforcement of assigned privileges. Oracle Identity Manager, formerly Oracle Xellerate Identity Provisioning, is an industry-leading solution that automates the process of provisioning IT resources across heterogeneous business processes and managed platforms to quickly connect users to ...

Posted by Budi Putra on May 12th, 2006 No Comments »

France's Alcatel and USA-based Lucent Technologies have lots of reasons to stick with their old names after they complete their $13.5 billion merger. Several hundred million reasons, perhaps. When Alcatel unveiled its acquisition of Lucent earlier this month, Alcatel Chief Executive Serge Tchuruk said that the two telecom-equipment giants would "choose a name later on." Yet rebranding a large corporation costs a lot of money. For example, some analysts estimate that the former SBC Communications is spending as much as $1 billion to rename itself AT&T; Inc. after acquiring the old Ma Bell brand in November. "Branding is not cheap" Jay Pultz, senior communications analyst, Gartner. Lucent and Alcatel also have other priorities: They need to integrate two large ...

Posted by Budi Putra on April 18th, 2006 1 Comment »