Unable to get the attention of the wireless carriers, Dell has decided to enter the mobile phone market by selling its wares direct through retailers, according to Collins Stewart analyst Ashok Kumar. The analyst writes that the carriers have decided to pass on Dell’s handset, “citing a non-compelling product with a roadmap that lags competition.”
Dell CEO Michael Dell has done little to dispel rumors that his company is working on a mobile computing device. In fact, he all but confirmed them while traveling in Japan on March 24 when he said: “It is true that we are exploring smaller-screen devices.” What form those devices will take remains a matter of heated debate.
Everyone else is in the phone business, so why not Microsoft? Several reports suggest that this may actually be in the works–one has the phone sporting an Nvidia processor and launching at the 3GSM conference, another that it is code-named “Pink,” will be Zune-based and will launch at CES in January. No word on what the code name may allude to.
In the heyday of rock music, no stadium gig was complete without a slow number that prompted the crowd to hold aloft their cigarette lighters to create hundreds of flickering points of light. Now the same effect is created by hundreds of people holding up their mobile phones as the audience takes photo after photo to prove they were there.
Trouble in the mobile phone business continues to mount.
Following up on disappointing results this week from both Research In Motion (RIMM) and Palm (PALM), Sony Ericsson (SNE, ERIC) this morning said that sales and pre-tax net income in the second quarter would “continue to be negatively affected by moderating demand of mid-to-high end mobile phone,” [...]
By using more computers and mobile phones, we can cut carbon dioxide emissions by 15 percent and save $1 trillion in reduced electricity and fuel costs, according to a study from something called the Climate Group.
Bloomberg reported on the study, which it notes was funded by, among other people Microsoft (MSFT), Cisco (CSCO) and Nokia [...]
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