Friday, July 11, 2008

What's new in week 28, 2008

Thursday, 2008-07-10, Copenhagen

Can iPhone be so popular in the mobile handset market? Well, guess Samsung Instinct is one of those that are trying out challenging this topic. By lowering down the price on 100 USD, it’s really hard to tell if iPhone can lead the market for a long time. Wait a minute, what does Nokia say here?

Microsoft has recently acquired a firm called Navic Networks, which is well into the interactive TV and advertising. Guess Microsoft has moved its strategy to the online/interactive marketing technology a bit. If we remember that online TV is not far away from us, this step may lead us to think that Microsoft is trying to take back the scenario of online advertisement that has been mostly occupies by Google.

Friday, 2008-07-11, Copenhagen
Nokia has the plan to acquire full parts of Symbian and make the platform free. Well, Symbian has been a major mobile platform and is now facing challenges from Microsoft as well as emerging platforms such as Google's Android. It seems that the giant mobile vendor is taking its steps to claim its impact of the market.

We have been hearing about the coming of new iPhone for 1 month. What about other vendors? Samsung and LG are already having their answers in the market. Samsung provides the "Instinct" brand while LG has the Dare, and these two companies are in corporation with other ISPs in the US area to compete iPhone+AT&T package.

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