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Nokia on Microsoft takeover: "It's Bollocks"
Nokia thinks rumours of a Microsoft takeover are “bollocks,” a spokesperson said to a roomful of journalists at its headquarters in Espoo. Espoo? Something smells funny, yeah. It is still a product...
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Emerging markets will buy smartphones
Analyst statements can be risky to get behind sometimes, but the latest from Juniper adds up – smartphones aren’t going away and cheap varieties are going to be very big business. It’s another score,...
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China's Kunming cull is Apple investment bargain
Is it any surprise China has shut down the faux-Apple stores which weren’t a problem until a Western blogger spotted them? It streamrolled from there and picked up tranction worldwide. The real reason...
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Global broadband digital divide widens
The digital divide is growing wider across the world as broadband access becomes out of reach for many in emerging markets. While prices are generally on a downward trajectory, a new report from...
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Half of world prefers stealing software to buying it
The Business Software Alliance (BSA) really must be upset, because it’s just put out an announcement that about half of the world is using illegal software. Not just once or twice – “most or all the...
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Offshore outsourcing ready for boom
Offshore outsourcing is expected to reach dizzying new heights, according to a report by analysts at Ovum. It expects revenues will be as high as $93.4 billion in 2015, thanks to emerging superpowers...
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Low-end Android smartphones to swoop on market
There will be as many as 339 million budget Android smartphones shipped across the world by 2015, according to analysts at In-Stat. We’re talking the sub-$150 range, the kind of device companies like...
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Hardware companies expected to give up on tablets
Traditional PC hardware companies are waking up to the realisation that they can’t figure out the tablet market and will leave it to the rest. Acer, HP, Dell and Asustek haven’t had much luck with...
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Social media crucial to business in emerging markets
Emerging markets are the biggest users of social media to leverage business, according to a new report, and the developed world is lagging behind. Beancounters at KPMG have revealed that countries...
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2012 to become emerging market smartphone battleground
GfK Boutique Research business director Steve Bambridge took to the stage with the Consumer Electronic Assocation’s Steve Koenig to reassure the world that the consumer technology industry is doing...
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