Wednesday, February 11, 2009
Nokia: Connecting People (With Mandatory Furloughs)
Not two months into 2009 and already the year is turning out to be the weakest the industry has seen in some time. With the economic downturn slowing growth in developing markets, consumers delaying cellphone purchases and retailers destocking them, cellphone juggernaut Nokia is scaling back production at its key Salo plant in Finland.
Wednesday, January 14, 2009
Well, Motorola Picked a Great Time to Announce More Layoffs…
Talk about fortuitous timing. With the newswires full of stories about Apple and all attention focused on CEO Steve Jobs, his health and his medical leave of absence, Motorola announced it’s laying off 4,000 workers in 2009, with 3,000 of them in the company’s flagship mobile phone division.
The 168-Hour Work Week
If the line between your work and home life hasn’t yet been blurred by near-ubiquitous Internet connectivity, just you wait. Because by 2020 it’s likely to have been erased entirely. That’s the word from the Pew Internet & American Life Project, whose recent “Future of the Internet III” study suggests that the dawn of the mobile phone as a “primary” Internet connection will essentially obliterate the boundaries between work and home.
iPhone: Not So Big in Japan
Nomura Research Institute once estimated that Apple could sell two to three million iPhones annually in Japan–about five percent of the market. But that was back in June when iPhone mania was at its peak and the device seemed destined to be a success wherever it was sold. But Japan is one of the world’s largest and most demanding mobile phone markets. Perhaps even a bit too demanding for the iPhone.
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
O3b. That’s Short for (An)other 3 Billion Google Users
Google services are near-ubiquitous in mature markets, but in emerging ones? Not so much. That will soon change, however, thanks to an ambitious plan to bring affordable Internet access to some three billion people in Africa and other emerging markets.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
Americans Buying Even Fewer Motorola RAZRs
You wouldn’t know it from the iPhone lines at Apple stores across the nation, but cellphone sales in the states are slowing. A report Tuesday from The NPD Group reveals that U.S. sales of mobile phone handsets in the second quarter of 2008 declined about 13 percent over 2007. Clearly, Americans are buying fewer cell phones. More specifically, they’re buying fewer Motorola phones.
Friday, July 11, 2008
Mass hIsteria?
Apple’s iPhone 3G arrived in stores today and was met by lines of enthusiastic buyers–dauntingly long lines. At Softbank Mobile’s flagship store in Omotesando, Tokyo, where iPhone monomaniacs first began camping out three days ago, the queue stretched for a half mile.
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- Godzilla’s Food, Exercise, and Dream Diary
12:58 AM: Breakfast: Two schools of fish from Tokyo Bay. Calories: 782,000. How I was feeling when I ate this: confused, irradiated, hating my size.
11:37 AM: Exercise: “Taxi Stomp” (alternating legs, for 30 blocks). Calories burned: 148,900,183. - Scenes From An Alternate Universe Where The Beatles Accepted Lorne Michaels’ Generous Offer
1983. The Beatles announce their first tour in thirteen years, but likewise announce that Michael Jackson will be going on tour with them as a one gigantic mega-concert event.
- The Golden Age of Video
Best video mashup ever.
- I’m not dead yet
A Facebook Memorial
- Pulp Fiction Audio Mix
Wow.
- A world without the Internet
Worth it for the Rickrolling photo alone.
- Google Wave Cinema: Pulp Fiction
Excellent.
- Dead Fly Art
Flughumor!
- Happy Birthday Monty Python …
… you vacuous, toffee-nosed, malodorous perverts
- ‘You are being shagged by a rare parrot’
Stephen Fry and zoologist Mark Carwardine meet the kakapo — a fat, flightless and very randy rare parrot.
