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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 [...]

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, [...]

I think it’s safe to say that the iPhone is the most publicized new mobile product of the last several years, especially in the United States. But although there has been endless commentary on the iPhone, there hasn’t been much solid data on how it’s being used, and what impact it’s having on the [...]

I’ve been invited to moderate a panel on mobile operating systems at the CTIA conference this April. No doubt this will be the highlight of the entire conference , so make your travel reservations early.
Participants tentatively will include Symbian, Microsoft, Access, RIM, and several others.
Here’s the session description:
Operating Systems, User Interfaces and Browsers: [...]

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 [...]