You don’t make the decision to wind down a 130-year-old business without a little bit of angst, said Hans Vestberg, CEO of Ericsson, reflecting on his company’s decision to end a joint partnership with Sony last year in a GigaOM interview Tuesday.
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Tom Krazit
Jun 5, 2012 - 5:59 PM PST
Sony’s next-generation SmartWatch is “coming soon” according to the product page, and it looks like a huge improvement over the company’s first attempt, which debuted in Sept. 2010. The SmartWatch connects wirelessly to an Android phone for message notifications checking Facebook and Twitter or monitoring exercise.
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Kevin C. Tofel
Feb 9, 2012 - 6:48 AM PST
On paper, the Sony Ericsson divorce is a win-win for both companies. However, it’s a winning move for Ericsson because it allows the company to focus on its core strengths — broadband — as it competes with China’s Huawei, its biggest and scariest competitor.
by
Om Malik
Oct 27, 2011 - 2:31 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has confirmed it is buying Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) out of their Sony Ericsson mobile handset-making joint venture for €1.05…
by
Robert Andrews
Oct 27, 2011 - 5:43 AM PST
Sony has announced that it is buying full control of handset maker Sony Ericsson for $1.46 billion. But will it change anything? Here are five things that bringing the business in-house means for the Japanese electronics giant and the wider industry.
by
Bobbie Johnson
Oct 27, 2011 - 2:20 AM PST
The Cambridge chip design company ARM has unveiled a chip design that it say uses could mean cheaper smartphones with battery lives five tim…
by
Charles Arthur, MediaGuardian
Oct 20, 2011 - 1:39 PM PST
One of the mobile industry’s longest-running but increasingly stale marriages is reportedly near an end. Sony (NYSE: SNE) is in talks to buy…
by
Tom Krazit
Oct 6, 2011 - 1:38 PM PST
» Appia has appointed Craig Forman as its executive chairman. He joins the white label app store company from his position as chai…
by
Ingrid Lunden
Sep 12, 2011 - 1:00 PM PST
A look at some of the big stories in mobile today:
» Another Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone protoype has been left behind in a bar, a…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 1, 2011 - 7:23 AM PST
The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad controls around 80 percent of the tablet market, which has seen just in the last month one high-profile casualty…
by
Ingrid Lunden
Aug 31, 2011 - 12:02 PM PST
They say imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, but Apple’s not impressed, as it has been battling it out in multiple courts to claim…
by
Ingrid Lunden
Jun 23, 2011 - 7:15 AM PST
Our look at some of the big stories in mobile today: More confirmation of the iPhone 5 being smaller and thinner; some doubt cast on Square’…
by
Ingrid Lunden
May 24, 2011 - 6:00 AM PST
This is Ericsson’s week to be in the spotlight for U.S. news, it seems. The company has just announced a deal to take on the running of Clea…
by
Ingrid Lunden
May 18, 2011 - 11:11 AM PST
Who are the top mobile brands in the U.S.? Asking the media versus asking 25,099 U.S. consumers might produce different results.
by
Ingrid Lunden
Apr 13, 2011 - 8:16 AM PST
Our list of mobile news to start your day. Today’s topics: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPad 2; new mobile ad standards from the IAB and the MMA; GetJ…
by
Ingrid Lunden
Mar 2, 2011 - 8:49 AM PST
— Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Mobile: Russell Buckley (pictured) is leaving Google’s mobile advertising unit AdMob, about a year after the company…
by
Ingrid Lunden
Feb 22, 2011 - 8:36 PM PST
— Nimbuzz: Arthur Van De Poll is the new COO at Nimbuzz, which develops mobile apps that give users “free” calls, chat and messaging. He wa…
by
Ingrid Lunden
Dec 1, 2010 - 1:11 PM PST
Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) broke into the top five largest phone-makers worldwide last quarter for the first time ever, but more importantly, it als…
by
Tricia Duryee
Oct 29, 2010 - 2:02 PM PST
The Symbian Foundation has a rough road ahead of it, and without support from many handset-makers beyond Nokia (NYSE: NOK), it may face be f…
by
Tricia Duryee
Oct 25, 2010 - 4:15 PM PST
— Angry Birds’ One Million Android downloads: After only being available for one day on the Android platform, Rovio Mobile has announced th…
by
Tricia Duryee
Oct 17, 2010 - 8:40 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) will no longer develop phones based on the Symbian operating system despite unveiling a Symbian phone…
by
Tricia Duryee
Sep 24, 2010 - 8:28 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) is reportedly getting ready to reveal a device that is part smartphone-part portable game player. The hybrid would resemble…
by
Tricia Duryee
Aug 11, 2010 - 8:18 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) said in the second-quarter earnings release today that its latest smartphones are seeing some momentu…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jul 16, 2010 - 8:15 PM PST
Statistics released this week show the Droid to be the most used Android phone on the web, by a significant margin. The same numbers show the EVO 4G, only out for a few days, has nearly pulled even with the Google Nexus One in web usage.
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James Kendrick
Jun 19, 2010 - 6:00 AM PST
Sony Ericsson is not sitting back on its XPERIA phone line and watching the Android parade go by. The firm unleashed a new member of the line, the X8, and promises upgrades to Android 2.1 for all XPERIA X10 phones this year. Android keeps rolling on.
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James Kendrick
Jun 16, 2010 - 8:17 AM PST
— *Sony Ericsson*: The joint venture handset maker has promoted Jan Uddenfeldt to the position of CTO, effective July 1, reports WSJ. Udden…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 2, 2010 - 3:55 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has relocated its North and Latin American headquarters from its offices in Research Triangle Park, N…
by
Tricia Duryee
May 21, 2010 - 4:30 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) surprised analysts with a strong first quarter, after working for the past year to cut expenses and s…
by
Tricia Duryee
Apr 16, 2010 - 1:18 PM PST
The long-rumored Sony (NYSE: SNE) Playstation phone is now becoming a reality.
Sony is developing a new lineup of handheld products, inclu…
by
Tricia Duryee
Mar 4, 2010 - 3:14 PM PST
By John Plunkett: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) breached UK advertising rules by exaggerating a mobile phone’s ability to use Fac…
by
MediaGuardian, © Guardian News & Media Ltd.
Feb 17, 2010 - 6:33 AM PST
More job cuts are coming, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) president Bert Nordberg warned, announcing horror-show Q4 and 2009 earnings…
by
Robert Andrews
Jan 22, 2010 - 2:11 PM PST
Over the next couple of weeks, the financial results of handset-makers are expected to show that there’s an increasing global demand for cel…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jan 18, 2010 - 5:26 PM PST
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) have both had their fair share of problems, and both are currently working o…
by
Tricia Duryee
Dec 21, 2009 - 5:16 PM PST
— Racing Post: The racing bible has launched a free iPhone app with racing form, tips, video and news and it’s clocked up 2,500 downloads…
by
Patrick Smith
Dec 8, 2009 - 10:03 PM PST
*Sony Ericsson* unveiled the Xperia X10 today, the handset-makers’ first device running Google (NSDQ: GOOG) Android. The phone is part of th…
by
Tricia Duryee
Nov 3, 2009 - 5:00 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson’s third-quarter results released today continue to reflect the weakness of global handset sales, however, the comp…
by
Tricia Duryee
Oct 16, 2009 - 2:00 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced a number of high-level executive changes today as it struggles to return to profitability.…
by
Tricia Duryee
Aug 17, 2009 - 1:58 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has approved its first swath of applications for its new PlayNow Arena app store, which it launched j…
by
Tricia Duryee
Aug 12, 2009 - 10:09 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has opened up the new PlayNow Arena app store to developer submissions, and in doing so, has revealed…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jul 23, 2009 - 7:17 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) reported a fourth straight quarterly loss in the second quarter, after shipping 13.8 million phones,…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jul 16, 2009 - 12:26 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) may be developing a new phone that would better compete with the iPhone and be offered as an alternative to the PlayStation…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 29, 2009 - 12:06 AM PST
» CQ’s sale to rival Roll Call, part of The Economist Group, seems like a done deal. What will happen after the merger? [Politico…
by
Rafat Ali
Jun 28, 2009 - 9:13 PM PST
Ericsson’s CEO Carl-Henric Svanberg is leaving his post to become chairman of British oil giant BP. The company’s current CFO and EVP Hans V…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 25, 2009 - 3:42 PM PST
— PlayNowPlus: SonyEricsson’s pre-licensed unlimited music download package is to be bundled with some its W595 phone through Orange in Aus…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 9, 2009 - 6:34 PM PST
Research firm ABI has said that most cell phone makers’ green phone intentions often fade “like a wireless signal in an underground…
by
Katie Fehrenbacher
Jun 3, 2009 - 11:30 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), the fifth-largest mobile-phone maker in the world, is revealing its plans today for a mobile applica…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 3, 2009 - 1:35 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is dropping its proprietary memory card format in favor of the standard and more popular MicroSD, whi…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 2, 2009 - 4:52 PM PST
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may have Comes With Music, but Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has one-upped them, by jumping directly to movies. T…
by
Tricia Duryee
May 29, 2009 - 3:24 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson unveiled a new phone today, called “Aino,” which allows users to control their PlayStation 3 while on the go. The…
by
Tricia Duryee
May 28, 2009 - 6:59 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is preparing to launch its first Android mobile phone, which will be running the second-version of Go…
by
Tricia Duryee
May 22, 2009 - 3:02 PM PST
There
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Dianne See Morrison
May 20, 2009 - 10:52 AM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has said that Sony Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) will probably seek to raise at least 100 million euros ($135.5 million) by next Ma…
by
James Quintana Pearce
May 19, 2009 - 3:48 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) has released its full year earnings for the 12 months ending March 31st, and its 50 percent share in Sony Ericsson (NSDQ: E…
by
James Quintana Pearce
May 15, 2009 - 2:38 PM PST
We
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Dianne See Morrison
May 11, 2009 - 7:48 AM PST
— Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) and Nokia (NYSE: NOK) team up on Star Trek gimmick: Verizon Wireless and Nokia are rolling out a new site tha…
by
Tricia Duryee
May 7, 2009 - 9:00 PM PST
At least, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) isn’t asking the U.S. government for a bail-out. But analysts are suggesting today thatthe…
by
Tricia Duryee
May 7, 2009 - 7:45 PM PST
Now that Motorola (NYSE: MOT), the last of the big five cellphone makers, has reported earnings, we have a better picture of just how hard t…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Apr 30, 2009 - 4:00 PM PST
Today, Ericsson’s showed a renewed interest in its money-losing joint venture with Sony (NYSE: SNE). At the company’s annual shareholder mee…
by
Tricia Duryee
Apr 22, 2009 - 1:02 PM PST
There’s some discrepancy forming between what Google’s CEO is saying about Android and what handset makers are saying.
Yesterday, during t…
by
Tricia Duryee
Apr 17, 2009 - 2:06 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) reported a net loss of
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Dianne See Morrison
Apr 17, 2009 - 4:20 AM PST
Analysts are expecting Nokia (NYSE: NOK) to report drastically lower handset sales, revenues and net profits for the first quarter on Thursd…
by
Tricia Duryee
Apr 14, 2009 - 9:16 PM PST
Research In Motion issued a press release this morning, saying that the BlackBerry App World can now be downloaded by users. It’s available…
by
Tricia Duryee
Apr 1, 2009 - 12:03 PM PST
At Mobile World Congress in February, one of the prevalent topics was application storefronts for the mobile phone. Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) wasn’…
by
Tricia Duryee
Mar 26, 2009 - 3:00 PM PST
— Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson: Najmi Jarwala, President of Sony Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) USA and Head of Region North America, comprising of the…
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Tricia Duryee
Mar 23, 2009 - 1:38 PM PST
Despite tabloid-like gossip regarding the partnership between Sony (NYSE: SNE) and Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), it doesn’t sound like a break-up i…
by
Tricia Duryee
Mar 23, 2009 - 12:48 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) expects to post a loss of between
by
Patrick Smith
Mar 20, 2009 - 10:25 AM PST
There are some reports doing the rounds that Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) would like to leave the joint venture it has with Sony (NYSE: SNE) — Son…
by
James Quintana Pearce
Mar 19, 2009 - 4:50 PM PST
— Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) in the U.S.: Sony Ericsson is betting on its Cybershot camera phones to boost the company’s popula…
by
Tricia Duryee
Mar 18, 2009 - 9:15 PM PST
Sony Ericsson has a change in its top management. Chief Technology Officer Mats Lindoff has decided to leave the company at the end of Marc…
by
James Quintana Pearce
Mar 11, 2009 - 5:14 PM PST
One of the strongest underlining themes at Mobile World Congress this year is the impact of the economic crisis. Industry leaders, such as N…
by
Tricia Duryee
Feb 19, 2009 - 7:41 AM PST
At Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson’s press conference Sunday evening in Barcelona, the day before Mobile World Congress kicks off, the company unv…
by
Tricia Duryee
Feb 15, 2009 - 5:41 PM PST
Mobile phone sales in the final quarter of 2008 fell by 12.6 percent year-on-year to 289 million units according to IDC, which blamed a “per…
by
James Quintana Pearce
Feb 4, 2009 - 9:35 PM PST
A lot of the predictions that warned the holiday period would be less than stellar came true: Only 295 million cellphones were shipped world…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jan 23, 2009 - 2:46 AM PST
The Internet is spinning with rumors that the creation of a Sony (NYSE: SNE) PlayStation phone is all but dead because of a fall-out between…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jan 19, 2009 - 10:04 PM PST
Struggling handset maker Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) posted a worse-than-expected fourth-quarter loss of
by
Dianne See Morrison
Jan 16, 2009 - 6:21 AM PST
In an attempt to drive more content sales on its handsets, mobile phone maker Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has launched a new serv…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Jan 14, 2009 - 3:57 PM PST
You have to hand it to Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) CEO Hideki Komiyama: He doesn’t seem to believe in spin. In an interview with…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Jan 8, 2009 - 12:32 PM PST
During an hour-long panel at the CES Mobile Entertainment event today, a host of executives ranging from Pandora to *SanDisk* and *Motorola*…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jan 7, 2009 - 9:19 PM PST
Mobile software developer UIQ has filed for bankruptcy in a district court in Sweden, the company said today. The move has been expected for…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Jan 5, 2009 - 12:36 PM PST
In a move that has angered handset manufacturers, the European Commission is planning on taxing certain smartphones, Reuters (via the Guardi…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Dec 18, 2008 - 7:57 PM PST
— Stella McCartney Inks Mobile Ad Deal With Millennial Media: Fashion designer Stella McCartney has launched a mobile ad campaign in North…
by
Matt Kapko
Dec 18, 2008 - 3:46 AM PST
In case it was still unclear whether mobile phone sales will shrink next year, Reuters has published the results of a poll that shows analys…
by
Tricia Duryee
Dec 16, 2008 - 4:49 PM PST
The Open Handset Alliance, which is responsible for the Android operating system, announced 14 new members today, and received commitments b…
by
Tricia Duryee
Dec 9, 2008 - 2:59 PM PST
Even though Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) appears to be knocking the ball out of the park after confirming today that it has more than 10,000 applicat…
by
Tricia Duryee
Dec 5, 2008 - 7:34 PM PST
If you haven’t heard about the widget wars yet, you are about to. Last week, I moderated a panel at the Open Mobile Summit. The subject was…
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Tricia Duryee
Nov 26, 2008 - 4:21 PM PST
This is worth noting given the amount of energy that goes into mobile content use. Five of the top handset makers have launched a star-ratin…
by
Matt Kapko
Nov 24, 2008 - 12:29 AM PST
Eastman Kodak has filed a pair of lawsuits against LG (SEO: 066570) and Samsung alleging that the companies infringed on patents involving d…
by
Matt Kapko
Nov 19, 2008 - 3:42 PM PST
This wasn
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Dianne See Morrison
Nov 11, 2008 - 10:53 AM PST
As the economy continues to spiral downhill, more analysts are expecting mobile-phone sales to shrink next year, which will mark the first t…
by
Tricia Duryee
Nov 7, 2008 - 6:21 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC), which is struggling to keep up in the very competitive handset market, announced two new mobile-mus…
by
Tricia Duryee
Nov 6, 2008 - 3:54 PM PST
Cellphone makers shipped 303 million units worldwide in Q3, which is down slightly from the previous quarter, according to data released by…
by
Matt Kapko
Oct 30, 2008 - 1:13 PM PST
Italian operator 3 Italia and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) are introducing a YouTube phone this week–the W595–which will allow u…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Oct 27, 2008 - 6:21 AM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) reported third quarter earnings today, and as expected, recorded a loss. But the net loss of $33.7 m…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Oct 17, 2008 - 6:25 AM PST
Analysts are revising their forecasts downward for 2009 global handset sales, citing lengthening phone replacement cycles despite the prevai…
by
Tricia Duryee
Oct 7, 2008 - 11:08 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is planning to shut down its flagship retail store located in London’s swank Kensington neighborhood.…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Oct 2, 2008 - 10:22 AM PST
Yesterday, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) started implementing a reorganization that it said back in July would eliminate up to 2,00…
by
Tricia Duryee
Sep 30, 2008 - 3:07 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is cutting 450 employees from its North American operations in Durham, North Carolina. Triangle Bus…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Sep 29, 2008 - 6:51 PM PST
— Buy iPhones at home and pick them up at the store: Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) launched a new way for people to buy iPhones yesterday, by letting…
by
Tricia Duryee
Sep 24, 2008 - 5:33 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) won
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Dianne See Morrison
Sep 24, 2008 - 6:33 AM PST
The iPhone comes to the rescue again. The WSJ reports in a lengthy feature that the time for mobile games may finally be arriving, thanks to…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Sep 12, 2008 - 9:26 AM PST
— *Comcast* adds entertainment library to Thumbplay site: With Thumbplay Open, a digital content management system, now in beta, Thumbplay…
by
amandan
Sep 11, 2008 - 3:54 PM PST
Whatever *Nokia* is planning to do, Sony (NYSE: SNE) *Ericsson* can do it, well, if not better, then something similar: it is planning to la…
by
Rafat Ali
Sep 9, 2008 - 3:07 AM PST
Whatever *Nokia* is planning to do, Sony (NYSE: SNE) *Ericsson* can do it, well, if not better, then something similar: it is planning to la…
by
Rafat Ali
Sep 9, 2008 - 2:51 AM PST
— *Sony* *Ericsson* releases SDK for Flash-Java technology: Four months ago, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) Developer World announc…
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Tricia Duryee
Sep 4, 2008 - 6:56 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) denies the launch of its first Windows Mobile-powered handset will be delayed. Weekend reports held t…
by
Robert Andrews
Sep 2, 2008 - 5:11 AM PST
Sony’s (NYSE: SNE) CEO Howard Stringer was quoted as saying in a German newspaper on today that its mobile-phone joint venture with Ericsson…
by
Tricia Duryee
Aug 27, 2008 - 7:31 PM PST
Consumers worldwide are expected to purchase as many as 190 million smartphones this year, representing an increase of 52 percent compared t…
by
Tricia Duryee
Aug 27, 2008 - 3:42 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) said today it is launching PlayNow Arena, the long-awaited upgrade of its online music store PlayNow…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Aug 22, 2008 - 6:45 AM PST
After only selling phones in the U.S. through AT&T (NYSE: T) for years, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced today it’s expandin…
by
Tricia Duryee
Aug 21, 2008 - 4:22 PM PST
Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) and French-Italian chipmaker STMicroelectronics announced Wednesday that they were merging their wireless chip and sof…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Aug 20, 2008 - 10:10 AM PST
Despite the fact that the Nokia (NYSE: NOK) sells a phone every 18 seconds, the Finnish phone manufacturer doesn’t get much respect in Silic…
by
Tricia Duryee
Aug 19, 2008 - 2:56 PM PST
Another downbeat story on Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson
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Dianne See Morrison
Aug 5, 2008 - 10:02 AM PST
Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) sold 18 million Windows Mobile licenses in 2008, two million short of its own goal of 20 million, the company said Th…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Aug 1, 2008 - 5:21 AM PST
French venture capital firm Sofinnova Ventures has purchased handset manufacturer Sagem for $340 million, reports Mobile News. Safran, the p…
by
Matt Kapko
Jul 31, 2008 - 8:41 PM PST
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) cut prices of its handsets in July to increase the pressure on its rivals (possibly the company noticed that Motorola was…
by
James Quintana Pearce
Jul 31, 2008 - 12:07 PM PST
A report from Strategy Analytics shows that 297 million mobile phones were shipped worldwide in the second quarter of 2008, and increase of…
by
James Quintana Pearce
Jul 31, 2008 - 11:20 AM PST
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has lost more marketshare this quarter according to analysts, slipping to fourth place six months earlier than expected…
by
James Quintana Pearce
Jul 30, 2008 - 11:36 AM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is dragging Sony down. We knew from the handset maker’s earnings last week that quarterly sales dived…
by
Robert Andrews
Jul 29, 2008 - 5:49 AM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) managed to break even in the face of what it called
by
Dianne See Morrison
Jul 18, 2008 - 9:22 AM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is in merger talks with Spice Mobile, an India handset-maker and division of BK Modi, according to th…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jul 11, 2008 - 6:22 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) smartphone users have another direct route to more content and applications thanks to a new global pa…
by
Matt Kapko
Jul 10, 2008 - 8:29 PM PST
You know you
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Dianne See Morrison
Jul 1, 2008 - 7:47 AM PST
Not good news from Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC). The fifth largest handset manufacturer said today that slowing demand for its mid…
by
Dianne See Morrison
Jun 27, 2008 - 9:36 AM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) may be considering the development of a phone based on its PlayStation portable gaming device brand, reports MarketingWeek.…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 26, 2008 - 2:35 PM PST
Nokia announced this morning that it will pay $410 million to buy the remaining shares of Symbian that it did not already own and then turn…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 24, 2008 - 5:17 PM PST
One way to look into the future to see which cell phones will be popular is by figuring out what platform developers are building applicatio…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 20, 2008 - 3:08 PM PST
Strong mobile phone sales are expected by a few handset makers despite growing concerns that the U.S. economy and the price of oil will hurt…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 19, 2008 - 2:09 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) released four new phones today, though just days after Apple
by
Dianne See Morrison
Jun 17, 2008 - 6:32 AM PST
You’re reading it here first… Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) and Warner Music International are partnering to bundle Madonna’s lat…
by
Robert Andrews
Jun 5, 2008 - 11:47 AM PST
— Verizon Wireless (NYSE: VZ) said it’s offering a service for $10 a month called RemoSync, which syncs Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) Exchange Ser…
by
Tricia Duryee
Jun 3, 2008 - 6:29 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is making a big splash in New York City today with Usher, the Grammy Award-winning artist the mobile-…
by
Tricia Duryee
May 28, 2008 - 4:32 PM PST
Worldwide sales of mobile phones reached 294.3 million in the first quarter of 2008, a 13.6 percent increase over the first quarter of 2007,…
by
Tricia Duryee
May 28, 2008 - 3:52 PM PST
Nokia (NYSE: NOK) may be the world
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Dianne See Morrison
May 2, 2008 - 9:41 AM PST
— Spike Milligan: The work of quintessential Goon Spike Milligan has been made available for mobile, including mobile wallpapers of his car…
by
James Quintana Pearce
Apr 25, 2008 - 2:32 PM PST
There has been some shuffling in the marketshare of the top five handset manufacturers, but no major change in new entrants according to Str…
by
James Quintana Pearce
Apr 25, 2008 - 11:33 AM PST
SonyEricsson (NSDQ: ERIC) sales collapsed to 2.7 billion euros ($4.3 billion) in Q1 – down eight percent from 2.92 billion euros in the year…
by
Robert Andrews
Apr 23, 2008 - 4:36 AM PST
Another handset manufacturer makes a content play. This time Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has partnered with hip hop and R
by
Dianne See Morrison
Apr 8, 2008 - 7:02 AM PST
You never know what will happen when Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) gets on the stage, but if everything stays according to plan, Robbie Bach will g…
by
Tricia Duryee
Apr 1, 2008 - 1:30 PM PST
Not a good sign for mobile content, obviously. Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) said today that the market for mid-to high end phones
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Dianne See Morrison
Mar 19, 2008 - 11:29 AM PST
Are the new services being developed by Apple (NSDQ: AAPL), Nokia (NYSE: NOK), Yahoo! (NSDQ: YHOO), Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC),…
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Tricia Duryee
Mar 12, 2008 - 5:35 PM PST
Consumers thirsting for high-end phones with TV tuners, GPS, touch screens and fancy cameras, along with first-time phone owners in emerging…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 28, 2008 - 4:12 PM PST
The Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) iPhone bandwagon rolls on. At this year
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Dianne See Morrison
Feb 15, 2008 - 9:42 AM PST
Mobile entertainment is popular among the Chinese, with 34.8 percent reporting they listened to mobile music and 10 percent played a downloa…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 12, 2008 - 6:33 PM PST
— *Motorola* launches mobile TV, GPS device: Motorola (NYSE: MOT) today introduced Mobile TV DH01n, a portable media player including navig…
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amandan
Feb 11, 2008 - 8:48 PM PST
New Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) CEO Hideki Komiyama says the company is not interested in Motorola
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Dianne See Morrison
Feb 11, 2008 - 10:19 AM PST
Hours before Mobile World Congress officially kicks off, Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced a new premium brand of phones toda…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 11, 2008 - 12:34 AM PST
Motorola
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Dianne See Morrison
Feb 4, 2008 - 1:13 PM PST
As Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) prepares to trim 4,000 jobs, the Swedish company said Friday that its multimedia division, including TV and music,…
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Tricia Duryee
Feb 4, 2008 - 1:26 AM PST
Nomura International analyst Richard Windsor has caused quite a stir with a research note published to the bank
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Dianne See Morrison
Jan 29, 2008 - 2:15 PM PST
A bit puzzling, since Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) announced the exact same plans in November last year as well…this time it say…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 28, 2008 - 12:23 AM PST
During a Davos panel Friday, the heads of Google (NSDQ: GOOG), Sony (NYSE: SNE), NBC and China Mobile expressed optimism over the future of…
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Joseph Weisenthal
Jan 25, 2008 - 9:05 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has come out with its fourth quarter earnings, showing an 18 percent increase in unit sales compared…
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James Quintana Pearce
Jan 16, 2008 - 10:45 AM PST
Interesting this: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is launching a phone where a user can simply wave their hand it to mute the rington…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 7, 2008 - 1:53 AM PST
To a large extent 2007 has been dominated by the moves of big web brands into mobile. In fact, if I was under pressure to point to the stron…
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James Quintana Pearce
Dec 20, 2007 - 12:18 PM PST
A couple of press articles have written that handset manufacturers like Nokia (NYSE: NOK) and Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) have be…
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James Quintana Pearce
Dec 16, 2007 - 9:36 PM PST
The latest handset figures for the third quarter are out from Strategy Analytics, and there’s no surprises. Nokia (NYSE: NOK) took 39.2 perc…
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James Quintana Pearce
Oct 26, 2007 - 7:27 AM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) is preparing a big push for M-Buzz, its global unsigned bands site, with a major cross-promotional ma…
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James Quintana Pearce
Oct 24, 2007 - 10:48 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) will sell half of its smartphone software unit UIQ (bought from Symbian last year) to Motorola (NYSE:…
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James Quintana Pearce
Oct 15, 2007 - 8:42 PM PST
Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has reported its third quarter results, showing lower profits on increased shipments. Net profit for…
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James Quintana Pearce
Oct 11, 2007 - 11:06 AM PST
Touch screens were ill-received before the iPhone gave them some cred, and now companies are looking for ways to get the touch-screen edge o…
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James Quintana Pearce
Oct 7, 2007 - 8:32 PM PST
Well, it seems there were big ambitions, but a small turnout, for this week’s Mocollywood mobile entertainment conference in London. Here ar…
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Ingrid Lunden
Oct 3, 2007 - 5:42 PM PST
Apparently Sony (NYSE: SNE) Ericsson (NSDQ: ERIC) has placed an ODM order for Windows-based phones with Taiwanese handset maker HTC, accordi…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 20, 2007 - 6:31 PM PST
Seven companies including handset manufacturers, Flash producers and chipset manufacturers have backed a new Flash memory standard to be use…
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James Quintana Pearce
Sep 16, 2007 - 7:39 PM PST
…Or rather one more Sony Ericsson exec commenting on the possibility of one. Miles Flint, the president, said it is considering PlayStatio…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 12, 2007 - 3:27 PM PST
CEO of Ericsson Carl-Henric Svanberg speaking earlier today at the vendor’s technology and strategy summit in London:
— Demand for mobile…
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Ingrid Lunden
Sep 11, 2007 - 1:20 PM PST
Miles Flint, the president of Sony Ericsson, has left the job saying that he “wanted to develop new personal and business opportunities afte…
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James Quintana Pearce
Sep 4, 2007 - 9:30 AM PST
PocketGamer cornered Peter Ahnegard, Partner Manager Games and Graphics at Sony Ericsson, at the Leipzig Games Convention and got his perspe…
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James Quintana Pearce
Aug 28, 2007 - 10:08 AM PST
Fortune Magazine (via CNN Money) has a rumors-are-rife story that Nokia (NYSE:NOK) is planning an online music service to rival iTunes. Whil…
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James Quintana Pearce
Jul 27, 2007 - 4:44 AM PST
With Apple planning to launch its iPhone in the region at the end of the year, Orange and Sony Ericsson, makers of the Walkman phone, are ta…
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Ingrid Lunden
Jul 24, 2007 - 9:14 AM PST
— Lloyd Mathias, Director (Marketing) for Motorola’s South West Asia unit tells HT that consumers look for music clarity, storage capacity,…
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Nikhil Pahwa
Jul 17, 2007 - 4:19 AM PST
As Motorola’s woes continue other manufacturers are on the ascendant. “Samsung churned out 37.4 million handsets in the second quarter, comp…
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James Quintana Pearce
Jul 15, 2007 - 6:17 PM PST
Sony Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERIC) said Q2 pretax income came in at 327 million Euros ($450 million USD), a year-on-year increase of 55 percent. W…
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David Kaplan
Jul 12, 2007 - 8:59 AM PST
Sony Ericsson has launched its next batch of phones, including ones in its Cybershot and Walkman brands, which naturally invite comparisons…
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James Quintana Pearce
Jun 15, 2007 - 3:17 AM PST
Sony Ericsson has filed a patent application dated May 31 with the US Patent & Trademark Office related to a mobile device with gaming funct…
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James Quintana Pearce
Jun 12, 2007 - 5:32 AM PST
GPS-enabled handsets are touted as perfect for applications that give directions, while this Reuters cites industry execs arguing that a big…
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James Quintana Pearce
May 17, 2007 - 12:21 PM PST
This is very much a “rumors are rife” story, so take it as such: Ed Snyder at Charter Equity Research has allegedly claimed that two of the…
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James Quintana Pearce
May 9, 2007 - 11:05 AM PST
Analysts have given some slightly different figures for global handset sales in the first quarter of this year (252 million from Strategy An…
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James Quintana Pearce
Apr 20, 2007 - 11:05 PM PST
Sony Ericsson has released its first quarter earnings showing a strong growth year-on-year. Revenues increased by 47 percent to 2.925 billio…
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James Quintana Pearce
Apr 20, 2007 - 6:01 AM PST
Sony Ericsson didn’t have much luck with mobile phones until it brought out Walkman phones, and followed that with another hit with the Cybe…
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James Quintana Pearce
Mar 28, 2007 - 8:10 AM PST
Sony Ericsson is looking for other companies to invest in the mobile operating system UIQ, reports Computer Business Review. The company bro…
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James Quintana Pearce
Feb 15, 2007 - 10:40 PM PST
Sony Ericsson has introduced a raft of new products, including a Walkman phone that is its slimmest ever and two Cybershot-branded camera ph…
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Rafat Ali
Feb 7, 2007 - 2:11 AM PST
[By Robert Andrews] The “conversation with Miles Flint” session at MidemNet Sunday morning seemed like more of an opportunity for the Sony E…
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Staci D. Kramer
Jan 21, 2007 - 6:34 PM PST
Some interesting user data from mobile gaming portal MobileRated: the top ten handsets for the year feature four Sony Ericsson terminals and…
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Rafat Ali
Jan 19, 2007 - 1:11 AM PST
Strong sales of the Walkman digital music phones helped triple 4Q06 net profit for Sony Ericsson Wednesday. The telco’s earnings report cite…
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David Kaplan
Jan 18, 2007 - 9:34 PM PST
Mobile music purchases amounted to $1 billion in 2006, more than double the $400 million in 2005 and accounting for half of all global digit…
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David Kaplan
Jan 17, 2007 - 6:51 PM PST
Ericsson and Sony have expanded their partnership to include mobile TV and broadband TV, reports Reuters. They demo’d some solutions, which…
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James Quintana Pearce
Nov 24, 2006 - 5:38 PM PST
Sony Ericsson has agreed in principle to acquire UIQ, the Swedish Symbian-subsidiary that produces the user interface for the handset manufa…
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James Quintana Pearce
Nov 7, 2006 - 1:43 PM PST
Groove Mobile has promoted Adam Sexton to Chief Marketing Officer, where his responsibilities will include driving the development of Groove…
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James Quintana Pearce
Oct 26, 2006 - 7:30 PM PST
Sony Ericsson has released a place-shifting device to team up with one of its high-end handsets. The LocationFree base station redirects TV…
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James Quintana Pearce
Oct 17, 2006 - 7:11 PM PST
Sony Ericsson has posted some pretty impressive Q3 numbers…”19.8 million handset shipments (a 43 percent, year-on-year increase), $3.7 bil…
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James Quintana Pearce
Oct 11, 2006 - 10:11 PM PST