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Global demand for mobile network cards and modules to top 80-90 million units in 2010

Global demand for external mobile network cards and built-in broadband modules is expected to grow 40-50% to 80-90 million units in 2010 due to expanded applications, according to estimates by industry sources    

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Compal Communications expects over 50% revenues share for smartphones, says chairman

Compal Communications expects smartphones to account for over 50% of its total revenues in 2010, up significantly from 20% in 2009, according to company chairman Ray Chen.    

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Nokia's services biz nets 86M subscribers, according to report

Nokia pushed passed its target of 80 million users of its Internet services for 2009, ending the year with around 86 million services users, according to a Reuters report, which cited unnamed sources with direc    

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Nokia projects 500 million handset sales in 2010

Nokia expects to ship over 500 million units in 2010, predicted Rick Simonson, the head of Nokia's mobile phones unit, who also defended the company's platform strategy.Simonson, in a wide-ranging int    

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2010 Prediction No. 2: Palm will be purchased by another handset vendor

With the launch of Palm's webOS (and two webOS smartphones), this year has been a strong one for the device maker. However the company still hasn't been performing well financially. Palm's webOS    

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Maine lawmaker wants cancer warnings on cell phones

A state lawmaker in Maine is trying to get the state's legislature to mandate that cell phones carry warnings that they may cause cancer, even though there is no scientific consensus on the issue. Maine wo    

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BlackBerry revenues, profits swell in Q3

BlackBerry maker Research In Motion posted notable gains in device shipments, revenues and net income in the third quarter, evidence the smartphone vendor continues to ride out a wave of competition from the li    

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Worldwide mobile device sales on pace for flat growth in 2009, says Gartner

Stronger-than-expected sales in Western Europe and an acceleration in the gray market in the third quarter of 2009 will drive worldwide mobile device sales to end users to 1.214 billion units, a 0.67% decline f    

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How do the world's Tier 2 handset makers stack up?

Every quarter, much attention is paid to the handset shipments from the top 5 handset makers--Nokia, Samsung, LG, Motorola and Sony Ericsson. But what about the next five largest handset makers--companies such    

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Gartner: Handset sales declined by less than 1% this year

Contrary to dire predictions at the beginning of the year, the handset market did not crater, according to research firm Gartner. The firm said the global market for cell phones declined only 0.7 percent this y    

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