GENEVA - Mobile telephones are seen as a basic necessity around the world and should enjoy persistent strong demand throughout an economic downturn, a United Nations agency said in a report published on Monday.
With or without a recession, millions of people in India, China, Nigeria, and other emerging markets will seek out mobile phones, according to the International Telecommunication ...
stored on Windows phones.
Microsoft, whose Windows mobile operating system used to be the second-most popular for smartphones after Nokia's Symbian, has been overtaken by Apple and BlackBerry maker Research in Motion.
(Reporting by Tarmo Virki; Editing by Erica Billingham)
to grow 18 percent to $67 billion this year.
Apple's App Store has proved to be popular with iPhone users, and helped spawn an entire industry of entrepreneurs who design the programs which can then be downloaded by consumers.
Apple said last month a total of 15,000 applications are available and downloads have hit 500 million in six months.
Microsoft Corp is also planning an online bazaar...
aimed to sell 40-45 million phones in 2009, compared with 33 million last year.
Chen also said the company would introduce commercially a phone model using next generation Long Term Evolution technology late this year or early next.
to be ready for customers later this year and in commercial products in 2010.
Samsung Electronics Co Ltd recently launched a phone, costing roughly $500, in South Korea using the first version of TI's pico-projector technology that beams video or photographs from a phone to any surface. Samsung also plans to sell a similar device in Europe, but has not released pricing.
TI said interest in its...
Acer Inc, the world's third-largest PC brand, entered the increasingly crowded smartphone market on Monday with the unveiling of its first eight models at the World Mobile Congress trade show in Barcelona.
Consumer demand for data services on mobile phones, such as accessing email or browsing the Web on the go, is rising despite the global economic downturn, a survey released Monday found.
SEOUL - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.3 mobile phone maker, aims to increase its global market share to at least 10 percent this year and boost low-cost phone sales, the head of its handset business said.
As shrinking consumer demand hits the mobile industry, LG expects deteriorating profits this year, but still targets a high single-digit percent profit margin on mobiles, against 11 perce...
SEOUL - LG Electronics Inc, the world's No.3 mobile phone maker, aims to increase its global market share to at least 10 percent this year and boost low-cost phone sales, the head of its handset business said.
As shrinking consumer demand hits the mobile industry, LG expects deteriorating profits this year, but still targets a high single-digit percent profit margin on mobiles, against 11 perce...
SEOUL - LG Electronics Inc , the world's No. 3 mobile phone maker, aims to increase its global market share to 10 percent or higher this year and boost low-cost phone sales, the head of its handset business said.
As shrinking consumer demand hits the cellphone industry, LG expects deteriorating profits this year but is still targeting a high-single-digit percent profit margin o...
Facebook, the world's largest social-networking site, is in talks with Nokia about ways to offer services on mobile phones, the Wall Street Journal on Thursday.
President Obama signed the DTV Delay Act into law Wednesday night, postponing the transition to digital TV until June 12 and putting wireless companies' plans to use their 700 MHZ spectrum assets on hold.
On Tuesday lntel revealed more details regarding its 32nm process technology that will allow the company to build high-performance and, from some point of view, revolutionary processors.
Cellphone maker Nokia said on Wednesday it would cut production at its key Salo plant in Finland as demand for handsets has dropped.
While mobile broadcast TV was pioneered in Japan and South Korea, following the switchover to all-digital TV, traditional and mobile TV broadcasters in many regions will launch mobile TV services that are forecast to attract over 500 million viewers by 2013, according to new research.
Intel Corp., the world's largest chip maker, plans to spend $7 billion upgrading its U.S. factories over the next two years in spite of tough economic conditions, the company said Tuesday.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it has developed and validated the first 40-nanometer (nm) class DRAM chip and module.
Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. announced that it has developed and validated the first 40-nanometer (nm) class DRAM chip and module.
The world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, Lenovo Group announced Thursday due to global economic turmoil a quarterly loss of $96.7 million has been reported while CEO resigns.
The world's fourth-largest PC manufacturer, Lenovo Group announced Thursday due to global economic turmoil a quarterly loss of $96.7 million has been reported while CEO resigns.
Panasonic Corp., the world's largest consumer-electronics maker, announced on Wednesday that it will cut about 15,000 jobs and says it expects to post its first loss in six years amid a global economic slump.
Toshiba on Tuesday announced its first model of touchscreen smartphones running on Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset. The TG01 is unveiled at a London event ahead of Mobile World Congress.
