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South Korea - the rise of LG handsets

LG Mobiles Rise with a Vengeance
LG Electronics has recorded an outstanding performance in the global mobile phone market recently, in sharp contrast to its loss two years ago. LG has performed exceptionally well in sales for six straight quarters since Q1 2007. LG’s Pyeongtaek plant has produced one global hit after another, starting with the [...]

Saudi Arabia - Zain launches third operator

Kuwait’s Zain launches mobile phone service in Saudi
Kuwait’s telecom giant Zain will launch its mobile phone service in Saudi Arabia on August 26, the group said Monday in a statement.
Last year, a Zain-led consortium won the third mobile phone licence in the oil-rich kingdom after making the highest bid of 6.1 billion dollars.
At the start, [...]

MSFT heart Windows Mobile

Everyone I know at Microsoft uses a Windows Mobile phone (well, except for 2 people…one is a guy that works in the Mac Unit and the other is Bill Gates who doesn’t use a cell phone). Microsoft employees are often the first customers of our product. To see just how passionate they can be, check out [...]

The sad (but respectable) demise of Microsoft Spot

Microsoft announced last week that it’s discontinuing its Spot data watch program.
The trouble with predicting the future is that it’s always easy to do in retrospect. Looking back, it’s obvious that Microsoft’s Spot products were a dumb idea. The concept was that Microsoft would send small bits of wireless data — weather forecasts, [...]

Adobe frees mobile flash: It’s about time

Today Adobe announced a series of changes to its emerging web applications platform. The changes include:
–The next version of the mobile Flash runtime will be free of license fees. Adobe also confirmed that the mobile version of the Air runtime will be free.
–Adobe changed its licensing terms and released additional technical information that [...]