Ben Wood
Ben Wood
Ben Woodis a British visual artist living and working in San Francisco. Over the past decade he has carried out public projects in San Francisco and exhibited in Mexico City, Honolulu and the United Kingdom. Many of his projects use digital media to display images in the built environment...
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This certainly ups the ante in the battle between Apple and the phone makers for mobile music.
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All of the Linux developments are a disparate set of projects,
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The industry will be lucky to get it out in 2008. Issues with rights, regulations and standards need to be overcome first.
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If you look at the hype-ometer, music is definitely the hottest. But no one has quite got the right model for the business yet.
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You're definitely looking at single digit margins, but Motorola will use the ultra low tier to attract consumers to its brand and eventually sell up more expensive models.
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That would be a sweet deal for Nokia.
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I have a sense that there's hysteria from the operators.
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Nokia's main priority must now be to stabilise its market share by Q3 and hope that it can reverse the current decline in Q4,
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The model caters to the replacement market where fashion is as much a factor in purchasing decision as function, but it remains to be seen whether European users will adopt it with the vigor that Korean consumers have embraced it.
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The Rokr was kind of a disappointment. You hear a song, go home, find it on iTunes, connect your phone and download. The real goal is to download it directly.
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This is the first year-on-year decline after years of phenomenal growth.
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Nokia definitely has to place some bets, and the 770 is one of them.
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Sony Ericsson's W800 Walkman phone and the K750 are seeing healthy demand in distribution and retail. They are in short supply at retail.
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In the face of aggressive competition from Motorola, Samsung, LG and Siemens this is going ot be a challenging goal to achieve.