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Nokia Tumbles, Warns It Will Lose Share in Q3; Other Handset Stocks Also Lower

Eric Savitz — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:15:32 +0000

By Eric Savitz, Blogger and Columnist, Barron’s, Tech Trader Daily

Nokia (NOK) this morning warned that it now expects its mobile device market share in the third quarter to be down from the second quarter. The company had previously said it expected its share of the market to be sequentially flat.

Nokia said it continues to target an increase in share for the full year.

The company also said it expects the overall mobile device market this year to be “impacted by the weaker consumer confidence in multiple markets,” although it still expects device volume to grow 10 percent or more from 1.14 billion units last year. Nokia said it still expects industry units to be up sequentially in Q3, but lower than previously expected.

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Motorola's Loss Is Apple's Gain: That $2.1 Billion Sucking Sound Is Coming From the iPhone

Erick Schonfeld — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:07:48 +0000

By Erick Schonfeld, Blogger, TechCrunch

Razr anyone? Motorola can’t even give those things away anymore. The once-proud company reported horrible earnings today, with sales down 21% and a net loss of $194 million. But the big takeaway was the 39% collapse in its mobile phone business. Mobile device revenues in the quarter dropped $2.1 billion compared to last year.

Coincidentally enough, that is almost exactly how much Apple made last quarter over the past three quarters on iPhone sales. That figure comes to $2.3 billion (including lumped-in sales of Apple TVs, which likely made up a very small portion of that total).

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Live Blogging: Mozilla Chairman Mitchell Baker on Opening the Mobile Web

Dean Takahashi — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 07:03:46 +0000

By Dean Takahashi, Blogger, VentureBeat

To unleash the wild creativity of the Internet on mobile phones, we have to open them up to the real Internet, says Mitchell Baker, the second speaker of the morning at the Web 2.0 Expo in San Francisco.

The chairman (er, chairwoman) of Mozilla says it shouldn’t matter what device you use to access the Web.

Mozilla is the nonprofit that makes the Firefox browser, which is being used by hundreds of millions of people as an alternative to Microsoft’s Internet Explorer.

She says that mobile browsers should all just work. The use cases do argue for different devices, but you will always want things quickly and with few keystrokes. “The information is the same,” she said. “We should be able to access it, mix it up, mash it up, save it, store it. All of those things should be the same if I am on a laptop or phone, at home or on a train.”

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