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Articles tagged with: Eu and Oem
Financial Sites Popular Among Older European Mobile Web Users
comScore has reported that financial services sites, such as those offering banking and stock trading services, are the most popular among european mobile subscribers older than 55, while teenagers are more likely to visit social networking, entertainment and even comic sites on their mobile devices. more
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Foxconn Full-Year Profits Drop 83%
..rse than the mean estimate of US$260.51 million from 14 analysts polled by Thomson Reuters. The company put the lower results down to a mix of lower demand, higher operating costs and currency fluctuations, along with higher income taxes. Reven more
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Are Smartphones Immune to the Financial Crisis in Western Europe?
The market for Western european converged mobile devices (commonly referred to as smartphones) experienced a good performance in the last quarter of 2008. According to IDC's european Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 9.3 million units, 25.9% higher than the 7.4 million shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 31.9 million units, 36.1% higher than the 23.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
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Worldwide Mobile Phone Sales Down by 5% in Q4 '08
The global economic downturn had a significant impact on the mobile phone industry as worldwide mobile phone sales to end users totalled 314.7 million units in the fourth quarter of 2008, a 4.6 per cent decline from the fourth quarter of 2007, according to Gartner. Manufacturers continued to struggle against low consumer confidence in both emerging and mature markets. more
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Western European Mobile Phone Market now in Recession
Three consecutive quarters of negative growth have led the Western european mobile phone market into recession. According to IDC's european Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped 53.6 million units in 4Q08, 13.5% lower than the 62 million units shipped in 4Q07. For the full year 2008, vendors shipped 190.5 million units in Western europe, 5.9% lower than the 202.5 million units shipped in 2007. more
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Will WiMAX Deliver on its Royalty Promises?
One of the major advantages claimed by the WiMAX community over their cellular cousins is that WiMAX will come with a far lower average royalty rate than either LTE or UMB. A favorite phrase among the WiMAX OEM community is that WiMAX has effectively "democratized" the 4G space. Although ABI research applauds the move to a more widespread intellectual property holding in the 4G realm, it could be argued that this democratization of IP will result in more, not fewer, IP royalties. more
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