Portelligent TechAlert Service:
Competitive Alert - Third Quarter 2006

Prior TechAlert Service Articles: 2001 - 2007 Archive

September 27, 2006

KDDI Sells Over 10M FM Radio Cellular Phones
Panasonic Gets into Electronic Book Business
Vodafone Japan Announces New Handset Models for Fall-Winter
Fujitsu to Acquire Spansion’s Production Facility
MPIO Starts Price War
Lenovo Beats Bird and Becomes No 1 Cellular Phone Brand in China
Motorola Debuts Chinese Capable Phones in the U.S.
Boxlight Markets Palm Size Front Projector

September 13, 2006

Matsushita, NEC and TI Set up Cellular Phone Platform Joint Venture
Sharp Markets New Digital Audio Player
Casio Commercializes Watch Style GPS Speedometer
Hitachi Commercializes Hybrid Video Camera
Asus and Giga Byte Set up Motherboard Joint Venture
Haier Releases Handset with Chinese Language Search Engine
Kodak Sells Most of DSC Operation to Flextronics
MTS to Terminate i-mode in Russia

September 7, 2006

Varioptic to Set up Production Facility in China
Huawei to Enter Japan's Mobile WiMAX Market
Home Electronics Controlled by Cellular Phones
Softbank to Launch HSDPA
Sony Announces Pocket Size IM + Music Device
SK Telecom Launches New Brand T
SKT and China Unicom Procure Handsets Together
Pantech Supplies Handsets to Chile

August 31, 2006

Toyota and KDDI Develop Cell Phone for Toyota
NEC Stumbles to 4th Place in Cellular Phone Sales in Japan
DoCoMo to Offer Video Messaging
Nikon to Market WLAN Compliant Digital Still Camera
Samsung Electronics to Develop Sport Handset with Adidas
SK Telecom to Get into China’s TD-SCDMA Market
LG Electronics Shuts Down British LCD Plant
Domestic Handset Manufacturers Command High Shares in Rural China

August 10, 2006

Toshiba and SanDisk Set up NAND Joint Venture
DoCoMo to Push W-CDMA by Introducing Entry Models
Willcom Introduces Voice Call-Centric PHS Phone
KDDI to Standardize Cellular Phone Software with Toshiba and Sanyo Electric
AT&T Beefing up Japanese Branch
Asustek OEMs Sony's PS3
Nostalgia for Good Old Brick Phone
World's Most Luxurious Smartphone from Russia

July 13, 2006

Hon Hai to Acquire Premier Image
China’s Music Cellular Phone Demand to Quadruple in 2010
Sanyo Electric Commercializes Digital TV Broadcasting Tuner
NTT DoCoMo Co-develops Windows Mobile Smartphone with HTC
DoCoMo Solicits Vendors for Super3G
Micron to Set up COMS Sensor Manufacturing Facility in Japan
Samsung Electronics Rolls out Compact Slider Phone in China
VK Mobile Goes Under