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Nokia plans furloughs in Finland next year

Nokia plans to temporarily cut around 400 jobs next year at its only plant in Finland. The firm says that because of the current market conditions, it does not need to operate at full capacity    

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Acer integrating marketing and sales channels to drive handset sales

Acer is integrating its marketing and sales channels for notebooks and smartphones in order to boost sales of smartphones, according to Scott Lin, president of Acer Taiwan.    

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Number of mobile devices accessing the Internet expected to surpass 1 billion by 2013, says IDC

There were more than 450 million mobile Internet users worldwide in 2009, a number that is expected to more than double by the end of 2013. Driven by the popularity and affordability of mobile phones, smartphon    

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Handset chassis maker Chi Cheng denies Foxconn acquisition rumors

Taiwan-based handset chassis maker Chi Cheng Enterprise has issued a filing with the Taiwan Stock Exchange (TSE) to deny recent market rumors indicating that Foxconn Electronics (Hon Hai Precision Industry) is    

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Dell forming mobile phone business unit
Dec 07, 2009 (Updated Dec 07, 2009) Cellpex, United States, Ohio - admin

Computer maker Dell said it would create a division focused on communications and mobile devices, a organizational restructuring that further highlights the company's intentions to broaden its reach into s    

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Nearly 2 billion Bluetooth chipsets to ship in 2014, says ABI Research

Nearly two billion Bluetooth chipsets are forecast to ship in 2014 alone, according to ABI Research. More than half will be found in wireless handsets. In the same year, almost 1.5 billion Wi-Fi chipsets are ex    

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CHT to sell 100,000 netbooks and 400,000 smartphones in 2010

Chunghwa Telecom (CHT) expects its direct sales of netbooks bundled with 3G services to top 100,000 units in 2010, according to company vice president Huang Tzu-han.    

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Almost 2 million mobile WiMAX subscribers expected by end of 2009, says ABI Research

Over the last several years, mobile WiMAX has moved through standardization, productization, and interoperability testing and certification. Larger-scale network deployments are finally becoming a reality. Clea    

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Nokia new focus on touch, full-keyboard and low-cost handsets will benefit Taiwan makers

Nokia's target to significantly increase the proportion of touch and/or QWERTY devices in its smartphone portfolio and further optimize the industry's lowest cost end-to-end business models for mobile    

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Nokia to halve next year's smartphone portfolio

Nokia next year will cut the number of smartphones it releases roughly in half in order to better compete with the likes of Apple and Research In Motion. The company has introduced around 20 different smartphon    

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