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Nokia retains smart phone crown
News The high street may be suffering with the credit crunch but smart phones are marching on - at least for now - showing near-record levels of shipments in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (Emea) in the second quarter of this year. [19 Aug 2008]
More businesses turning to VoIP?
News The market researcher believes EMEA will this year break away from Asia-Pac, which has been leading the VoIP arena for several years, and head up the market through to 2011. The number of worldwide residential and small office/home office VoIP... [14 Aug 2008]
Nationwide WiMax in next two years?
News There will be WiMax coverage across the UK within the next two years, the managing director of Intel Capital EMEA has claimed. On the subject of the sudden increase in 3G dongle usage in the UK, Patel said the trend "validates the market for mobile... [09 May 2008]
Back to school rush boosts laptop sales
News Following a slower second quarter, blamed on the World Cup, EMEA PC shipments returned to healthier levels in the third quarter of this year, with year-on-year growth of 11.2 per cent, according to data from IDC. [23 Oct 2006]
3 slams fixed-mobile convergence
News Roy Bedlow, EMEA VP at Palm, agreed, adding: "We have to enable or produce a whole infrastructure of handover, a whole user experience, whether it's voice or data, that's seamless. Michael Eagleton, mobility consultant EMEA, at Orange said: "It's... [04 Jul 2006]
Wireless networking kit sales on the up
News Thirty per cent of WiMax equipment sales come from the EMEA region as a whole, with most deployments taking place in Eastern Europe, Africa and the Middle East. By 2007, Infonetics forecasts, mobile WiMax products will hit the market and the... [02 Jun 2006]
HP teams with Europe's largest phone distributor
News Regine Hohnesbein, director of handhelds and mobility for HP EMEA, said: "This is about extending our go-to-market strategy and having a dedicated partner [for mobile devices]. HP has struck the Dangaard deal to sell through network operators but... [08 Feb 2005]
Biometrics: Are they ready for the office?
News Tony Reid, director of storage solutions at Hitachi Data Systems EMEA, said the figures reveal a changing attitude towards biometrics. Ant Allan, research director at Gartner, said: "The corporate biometrics market continues to be dominated by... [29 Sep 2004]
EMEA mobile shipments up 52 per cent
News Canalys director Chris Jones said in a statement: "This demonstrates that there is still significant potential in the handheld market in EMEA, despite the negative news coming from other worldwide regions. [22 Jul 2004]
Smartphone sales outstrip handhelds
News The figures cover Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), and divide handhelds into data-centric devices such as PDAs (personal digital assistants) and voice-centric devices such as smartphones - mobile phone handsets with PDA-like features. [26 Jan 2004]
HP's comeback in handhelds as Europe warms to smart phones
News The whole EMEA market was 1,484,990 devices for the third calendar quarter of this year. The market for smart phones in Europe is maturing with the latest figures showing sales of data-centric devices for the first time outpacing those of devices... [21 Oct 2003]
Microsoft, Motorola and Orange team up for UK smart phone
News Amer Husaini, VP and director product operations PCS EMEA at Motorola, said the deal is “about three major brands building a story” and “looking at a long journey”. Described as for the ‘high-end consumer and business professional market’, Stuart... [15 Sep 2003]
A new breed of PDAs is coming. But would you want one?
News PalmSource director of marketing EMEA Jean-Marc Holder said: "We have 16,000 commercially deployable applications. These are only access devices," said Bernard Falise, handheld manager at HP EMEA personal systems group. [20 Feb 2003]
IP services set for a fall
News Johann Strauss, EMEA metro IP manager at Cisco, agreed with Taylor: "DrKW didn't understand the IP concept. Market growth for services run over internet protocols will not grow at the rates predicted by the telecommunications industry over the next... [02 Aug 2002]
Cisco: 19 airports connected, 100 more to come
News Ultimately, Nembe expects to see the EMEA market dominated by mobile operators and state telcos like BT and Telia, rather than specialist wireless internet service providers (WISPs). Gilles Nembe, Cisco mobile office product development manager... [11 Jul 2002]
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