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RSS sonyGlobal mobile sales surge 20 per cent in 2003
News Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications rounded out the top five. Coming off vigorous growth in 2003, mobile phone sales are poised for a continuing surge this year, market researcher Gartner said on Wednesday. [11 Mar 2004]
Radioactive: Ready or not, here comes mobile music
Comment Handset vendors Motorola, Sony Ericsson, Samsung and Nokia all have music mobiles in the shops or in the pipeline. Sony-Ericsson is dredging up the Walkman brand for one of its new mobile phones. Futurity Media's Stewart Baines reckons they may be... [14 Apr 2005]
The Bloor Perspective: Mobile IDs, Novell does Linux and Adobe PDF mindshare
Comment The Alliance, you may remember, appeared as a response to Microsoft's Passport network identity management system, and Ericsson is a sponsor member, alongside companies such as Nokia, Novell, Sony and Sun. [28 Apr 2003]
Linux firms play with Real
News Sony, for example, licensed Helix servers and audio-video compression software for its Altair home entertainment appliance. Red Hat and Novell will include RealNetworks' media player with their operating systems [29 Jun 2004]
Napster left out in the cold
News Sony Music Entertainment and Universal Music Group have formed a joint venture named pressplay, while AOL Time Warner, BMG and EMI are working with Napster to launch a service called MusicNet. A US judge has ruled Napster cannot reopen its service... [12 Jul 2001]
One billion mobiles sold in 2006
News Nokia ended 2006 as market leader for mobile handset shipments, followed by Motorola, Samsung, Sony Ericsson and LG Electronics, according to the IDC statistics. One billion mobile phones were sold worldwide for the first time ever last year driven... [26 Jan 2007]
Google searches for more moola
Comment That engine powers results on Yahoo, Netscape, Sony and others. Google may currently be king of the consumer search engine outfits - but it's not resting on its laurels. In fact, recent initiatives suggest it's gearing up for a head-to-head battle... [30 Aug 2002]
3GSM Diary: Broad(band) expectation
Comment Stay tuned - the next 24 hours promise to be eventful with announcements from the likes of Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia, Orange, Qualcomm, Siemens, Sony Ericsson, Symbian and many others. As the biggest mobile show on earth nears its kick-off on... [14 Feb 2005]
Yahoo! raises its Voice with new VoIP services
News Sony launched a free VoIP service last month with video calling and AOL launched PC-to-phone capabilities in October. Yahoo! said on Wednesday it will offer two new fee-based voice over IP (VoIP) services so customers can make voice calls from a PC... [08 Dec 2005]
Ballmer: Apple the wrong bandwagon to reach digital utopia
News We have had media technology built for years - Apple, Sony, RealNetworks, have been there for years. Microsoft chief executive Steve Ballmer said at a press briefing in London on Sunday that consumer take-up of digital technology in the home is at... [04 Oct 2004]
Stories of the month - January 2007
News HP, Medion, Sony and Toshiba all showed off their high-end Vista wares, and we've got the pictures. Stories about work generated lots of interest in January - perhaps because it is traditionally the month when everyone starts looking around for new... [31 Jan 2007]
"We want Britney" say web surfers
News Following were digital cameras, MP3s, Microsoft's xBox, Sony's PlayStation 2, portable DVD players, plasma TVs, digital camcorders, PDAs and electric scooters, respectively. If the term "zeitgeist" is applied as it is defined -- an era's... [24 Dec 2004]
World Cup kicks off $300m mobile TV bonanza
News Some of the other manufacturers - Nokia, Sony Ericsson, BenQ-Siemens - have said DVB-H only for now. This year's World Cup will send the mobile TV market into the big time, say the analysts - a market that will be worth $300m over the course of the... [07 Jun 2006]
Symbian resolute in face of mobile virus row
News Doug Overton, head of communications at WDSGlobal, which handles around 100,000 helpdesk calls each month for customers of HP, Nokia, Orange, Sony-Ericsson and T-Mobile, agreed that the real issue is about proper configuration of mobile phones... [05 Sep 2005]
Tesco aims for iTunes with song-shop launch
News With more and more companies joining in the music download fray - Virgin, Sony, Coke and Oxfam to name a few - Higgins said he believes the market is reaching its saturation point. Supermarket giant Tesco is hoping to take a slice of Apple's pie... [08 Nov 2004]
