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...news about PC and cell phone sales begins to trickle out company-by-company, it is becoming clear that a $199 handset or a $999 PC are not on the consumer's shopping list. Nokia (NOK), which has 40% of the world's handset market reported that global sales would contract in 2009. That is unheard of. It means that fewer people are upgrading old phones in developed markets and fewer people are buying a first phone in developing countries...
...every American home had a car in 1920, a phone in 1930, and a TV in 1960, the PC is the household appliance of the last 20 years. Most households have one PC. Some have two or three depending on how many children are in the house. The cycle of upgrading PCs has been fairly steady. It has been driven by more powerful processors from companies like Intel (INTC), new operating systems from Microsoft (MSFT), and broadband which gives the PC owner access to a universe that did not exist a decade...
Most of the 3G networks run about as fast as a DSL line. That works fine for transferring modest data files, talking, texting, going online, and even watching video. But, the phone companies don't seem to think consumers and business users will be satisfied by the way their networks operate now. Their next generation of technology will be about ten times faster than the one in the market today. (Read "25 People to Blame for the Financial Crisis...
...Daily, the Chinese Communist Party's official mouthpiece, still publishes numbing headlines like "China-Mali Ties in Continuous Development," other newspapers are attracting readers by delving into corruption scandals and celebrity sex lives. Low Internet penetration throughout much of Asia ensures that it is newspapers - not computer or cell-phone screens - that impart information to readers. As of last September, only 12.24 million Indians were Internet subscribers, a fraction of the 180 million Indians who have newspaper subscriptions...
...move was a surprise to the Gibsons, who had called Airtran's automated phone line the night before to confirm the departure time of their original flight...