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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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Mini-Notebooks Made Explosive Entry into EMEA PC Market in 2008

Following a major surge in the back-to-school season, mini-notebook momentum continued unabated in the final quarter of the year. Thanks to robust consumer demand in Western Europe in the run up to Christmas, overall EMEA mini-notebook shipments reached 3.6 million units, in line with expectations, representing 20% of total portable sales and 30% of consumer portables in EMEA in 4Q08.  more

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Laptops to come with "Mobile Inside" Logo

A group of IT and mobile companies have united behind a GSMA-led initiative to create a new category of always-connected Mobile Broadband devices, which the GSMA says will offer a technical alternative to Wi-Fi services.  more

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INTERVIEW: Microsoft's Windows Mobile Sees High Growth Ahead

MUNICH -(Dow Jones)- With the Internet going more and more mobile, Microsoft, the world's dominant software producer, sees high growth potential in software for mobile devices, a top executive said Thursday.  more

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