All Posts Tagged With: "China"

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CD-Wow Fined £41m And Told To Stop Selling Cheap CDs

I just spotted a very sad story on the BBC, reporting on how UK Online retailer CD-Wow must pay £41m to British record companies after breaking a deal to stop selling illegally imported cheap albums in the UK. CD-Wow were selling albums for as low as £6.99, which is roughly half the [...]

30May2007 | Everton | 12 comments | Continued
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Some of the MOSTs in the videosphere

Just in case you don’t know it yet (and I’m sure most of you don’t), today is actually the National Work From Home Day in the UK. I’m sorry that I wrote this post a bit too late, otherwise you could’ve just called in sick and “work from home” instead.
I’d like to share 5 videos [...]

18May2007 | Zane | 6 comments | Continued
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JavaFX Mobile - Latest Mobile OS

JavaFX Mobile is starting to get hyped as an iPhone killer by many.
Sun has a great foothold in the mobile gaming arena. But productivity and office applications are still a a mountain to climb for Java MIDlets. With the instant success of Web 2.0 , there is a talk about Mobile 2.0 gaining strong grounds.
Rich [...]

13May2007 | Everton | 1 comment | Continued
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Why eBay bought Skype

I’m finally starting to understand a bit better why eBay bought Skype. It seems that eBay isn’t buying Skype to get into the long distance business. eBay intends to use Skype to help facilitate transactions by allowing buyers to speak directly to sellers, as well as introducing new sources of income by charging [...]

13Sep2005 | Everton | 8 comments | Continued
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Wikipedia Mobile Analysis

Wikipedia’s have produced a list of the Largest Mobile Phone Companies and I was amazed to see that Vodafone is no longer the largest, although they are still the most profitable. Here’s the full list:

China Mobile (GSM) - 204.3 million
Vodafone1 (GSM, UMTS) - 154.838 million
China Unicom (IS-2000, GSM) - 100.1 million
T-Mobile2 (GSM, UMTS) - [...]

13Jul2005 | Everton | 0 comments | Continued