Mobilog

Thursday, September 4, 2003

HP buys Talking Blocks. Hewlett-Packard announced Wednesday that it has signed a deal to acquire San Francisco-based Talking Blocks for its Web services management technology. The deal is expected to close by the end of the month, and until that time, no financial details will be released, said Nora Denzel, senior vice president of HP's Software Global Business unit. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Danger sweetens products with Java [CNET News.com]
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Amphibious car. About a million people wrote in with the news about the Aquada, an amphibious car from British car company Gibbs. It's certainly stretching the definition of a gadget a bit, but what the heck, a car that can do 100mph on land and 30mph in the water doesn't come along all that often. Read... [Gizmodo]
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IDC raises PC forecast. Market research firm IDC has raised its PC forecast for the remainder of 2003, citing increased sales of notebooks and some signs of life within corporate purchasing departments. [InfoWorld: Top News]
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'Cool Hunters' Like Apple's Shine. Apple Computer's market share may be slim compared with the likes of Microsoft and Dell, but youth marketing experts say the company is the height of cool among young consumers. By Leander Kahney. [Wired News]
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Nokia's N-Gage Gets Second Look. N-Gage is a cell phone, video-game deck and MP3 player. Not too long ago, the combo was viewed as a clunker, but Nokia is using so much marketing muscle that the gaming industry is taking it seriously. By Suneel Ratan. [Wired News]
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Most people understand, at least superficially, that the sooner they begin planning for retirement the better. Putting money aside now rather than later means that you will have more assets in the long run. What many people don't know, however, is the amount of money they will need to live on in their golden years.
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The chip supplier successfully got its technology inside computers and its brand on the outside, but can it do the same with mobile phones?
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The hand-set market's prospects for 2004 are good, with more than half-a-billion mobile phones expected to be sold, according to market research firm IDC's report (Worldwide Mobile Phone Forecast and Analysis Report, 2003 [^] 2007 [IDC #30068]). 2004 sales will grow by 8 percent over 2003, driven by demand for GPRS and 3G handsets. Sales of 3G units will increase 140 percent worldwide in 2004 relative to 2003, with shipments going over 48 million units from about 20 million in 2003. The market for 3G, however, will be small compared to that for 2.5G handsets. IDC calculates that 241 million GPRS phones will ship next year, up 42 percent from the 169 million shipped this year. One reason for the continued robust growth of 2.5G phones is that almost all non-3G phones today are 2.5G, even if they are not used to make GPRS connections. Analysts note that the growth does not come from faster-than-GSM data transmission, but owing to the growth of the camera phone market. IDC forecasts that camera phone shipments will grow 64 percent from 2003 to 2004, with more than 100 million digicam-equipped handsets shipping next year -- an impressive near-third of the handset market. Shipments of smart phones, meanwhile, will grow 111 percent to 30 million units next year -- more than the number of Palm-branded devices.

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