Some day, your cellphone might be able to read you as well as your best friend or significant other, though not if you have a poker face.
Sony Ericsson filed a patent application with the U.S. Patent and Trade Office earlier this month for technology that would allow a device to create MP3 playlists based on a user’s facial expressions.
The Al Jazeera Network has announced a partnership with Sony Ericsson, where RSS feeds of its news content will be preinstalled on four models of its mobile devices in both the Middle East and North Africa.
The new initiative is part of the news organization’s development Labs in an effort to reach out to more readers through new media.
Worldwide mobile phone sales grew only five percent in the third quarter–a disappointing performance in the sector, and the lowest since 2002. Only Apple and Samsung stood out from the pack. It makes perfect sense that large screen TV sales would slump heading into a recession, but mobile phones? Maybe consumers are bored. Sales are expected to jump slightly during the holiday season.
The global mobile handset market grew 15 percent in the second quarter to 297 million units, according to research firm Strategy Analytics.
Nokia (NOK) continued to dominate the market, with a 41.1-percent share, up from 40.9 percent in the first quarter, shipping 122 million phones.
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,” [...]
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