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Worldwide Mobile Phone Shipments Down by 15.8% in First Quarter

The worldwide mobile phone market began 2009 with an expected sequential downturn, exacerbated by the challenges of the ongoing worldwide recession. According to idc's Worldwide Quarterly Mobile Phone Tracker, vendors shipped a total of 244.8 million units in the first quarter of 2009 (1Q09), approximately 15.8% lower than the 290.8 million units shipped during 1Q08. The first quarter of a new year is typically characterized by seasonally lower shipment volumes following a busy holiday quarter with channels clearing out excess inventory. But the 1Q09 decline was especially sharp due to weak end-user demand, currency volatility, and lack of credit for merchants as consumers and the supply chain adapt to the recession.  more

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Vodafone Offers SMS Access to Twitter in the UK

Fast growing micro-blogging service, Twitter has announced via its own "macro-blog" that Vodafone UK has resumed allowing updates via SMS. Anyone in the world can update Twitter via SMS but receiving tweets on a mobile phone has been restricted to North America due to the costs of providing the service.  more

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