Wednesday, September 24, 2008

3Com got profits in the first-quarter

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Communications equipment maker 3Com announced financial results in the first quarter of fiscal year 2009 yesterday. The report showed, 3Com revenue were 342,700,000 U.S. dollars in the first quarter, up 7%; net profit were 79,800,000 U.S. dollars, while in the same period last year, it got a net loss of 18,700,000 U.S. dollars.

3Com's revenue depends on the part of the cooperation with Huawei, 3Com Chinese market accounted for nearly half of the overall business. 3Com said that in the long term, is expected to Huawei and 3Com-related sales in total revenue share and in absolute terms, there will be a drop in other parts of 3Com hopes to have more growth. Huawei previously attempted to purchase shares of 3Com but failed.
 

3Com said it would copy the success focus on other areas in China. In addition, 3Com reported that it would buy back stock with cash surplus to repay the loan and other strategic investments. 3Com CEO Mao said that as the current contraction of global economic, users hope to be returned more in investment of network equipment, and the market value of network investment is paid more and more attention.

Sunday, September 21, 2008

WiMAX distributed in 118 countries worldwide with 4 million users

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Sept. 18 news the fourth world WiMAX Summit is held in Beijing today, Huawei, ZTE, Intel, Motorola and s a number of chip industry, device manufacturers and operators participated in the summit. According to the latest statistics released by the Forum that the current WiMAX subscribers has reached 4,000,000 all over the world.

At the summit meeting with the media at the global WiMAX Forum, said Ronald Resnick, as of August 2008, WiMAX has been in 118 countries to achieve commercial deployment, signed 300 commercial application of the contract, 400 million users access the Internet through WiMAX.

Ronald Resnick also to the United States, South Korea and India to describe the progress of WiMAX technology and its prospects for the global development strategy. He said that in 2012 is expected to WiMAX subscribers worldwide will reach 133 million, more than 200 countries and regions in the 538 operators to deploy.

He believes that the key objective of WiMAX is a next generation broadband wireless access, as the opening of the Intellectual Property Alliance Forum Certified mobile phone model and the model is relatively mature, compared to the LTE in order to speed the development of 3-5 years.

WiMAX in November last year, was approved by the ITU as 3G standards, and TD-SCDMA, WCDMA, CDMA2000 jointly build a 3G network era. However, in addition to WiMAX, the three other 3G technology in the direction towards LTE. Therefore, the formation of a WiMAX and LTE and the relative competitiveness of confrontation.

However, Huawei CDMA & WiMAX product line president Zhao Ming said, WiMAX and LTE are more complementary relationship. LTE is the evolution based on WiMAX.

To this, Ronald Resnick claimed: " the development of LTE is later three to five years than WiMAX."

Google's first-Android handsets will be priced at $199

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Sept. 19, according to foreign news media reports, "The Wall Street Journal" reported on its Web site that the first mobile phone that used Google's Android operating system will be set at the price of 199 U.S. dollars.

The mobile phone by HTC of Taiwan production, the use of sliding-keyboard design, through Deutsche Telekom's T-Mobile's U.S. sales, which is scheduled for Sept. 23 in New York, an event published in this product.

Apple iPhone mobile phone exclusive agent of the United States AT & T to the latest version of the iPhone handset price set at 199 U.S. dollars, which is available on the Internet for all to deal with e-mail, as well as other multimedia-enabled multimedia mobile phone sets a standard price.

"The Wall Street Journal" quoted an informed source, T-Mobile USA Cor. plans to introduce new data services through Android mobile, the price of Android mobile phone will have a certain competitive advantage.

Google, HTC, and T-Mobile USA declined to comment on the price of mobile phones.

Thursday, September 18, 2008

Adobe profit fell 7% in the third-quarter

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September 17, according to foreign news media, publishing software maker Adobe Systems Inc. Tuesday announced the third-quarter report, the profit fell 7 percent, but still broke the expectations of analysts.

This San Jose, Calif.-based company said that as of August 29 the third-quarter profit of 192 million U.S. dollars of 35 cents / share, a year earlier to 205 million U.S. dollars of 34 cents / share. Remove one-time items, earnings per share should be 50 cents, exceeding the Wall Street analysts expected 46 cents / share. Revenue growth of 4 percent to 887 million U.S. dollars, higher than analyst expectations of 877 million U.S. dollars.

Adobe Systems is expected to end in November of fourth-quarter revenue in the 925-955 million U.S. dollars, the average analyst expectations for 939 million U.S. dollars. The company next week will release the latest version CreativeSuite package.

EdwardJones analyst AndyMiedler that, Adobe's quarterly performance has been impressive, exceeding our expectations. Adobe Systems CEO Hill Thanou Narayanan because (ShantanuNarayen) in a conference call that analysts said, Acrobat and other products strong sales, the company will continue to implement the strategy now.

The same day in Nasdaq, Adobe shares closed up 0.06 U.S. dollars to settle at 38.14 U.S. dollars / share, in the after-hours trading after the release of fiscal report, the stock rose 1.41 to 39.55 U.S. dollars / share, or up 3.70 percent.


5 Foreign media reports, according to informed sources, T-Mobile will displayits first Android phone on the 23rd this month.

According to Google mobile platform for Andilubin (Andy Rubin) confirmed that the world's first mobile phone from HTC Android production, is now available at the final stage of preparation.

Earlier reports said, HTC's new phone called Android "HTC Dream/G1", a volume of 117 (mm) × 55 (mm) × 16 (mm), the screen size of 3.17 inches. As for prices, sources said, with T-Mobile signed a two-year service contract at 199 U.S. dollars.

Last year in November, Google and more than 30 industry enterprises to set up an open mobile alliance to develop open-source Android mobile platforms. There is no doubt that Google rivals such as Apple's move to initiate a positive challenge.

According to Apple CEO Steve Jobs (Steve Jobs) said earlier this week, iPhone "Application Shop" in the introduction of the first 60 days of its application downloads exceeded 100 million times. For the developers of these applications, they can take from 30 per cent of the revenue.

Although Android phones also have similar support services "Android Market", Rubin said it will not be taken into revenue model.

Google search market share is up to 63% in August

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Sept. 19, according to foreign media, market research firm comScore released a report Thursday that the Google search engine market dominance is being further strengthened.

The report shows that in August, 63% of U.S. Internet users use Google search than the same period last year, an increase of 56.5 percent, up from the second, three competitors Yahoo and Microsoft's market share. In August, Yahoo market share decreased to 16.9 percent, down from July's 20.5 percent market share, in the same period last year, Yahoo's market share to 23.3 percent. Microsoft's market share from 8.9 percent in July decreased to 8.3 percent over the same period last year, 11.3 percent of the market share of nearly 27%.

comScore data does not include maps, the local phone book, as well as users to submit video search site. Lehman Brothers analyst Douglas An Musi (Douglas Anmuth) that the report showed that Google continues to maintain the advantage in search, its stock is still the preferred investment.

Thursday, Google shares closed at 439.08 U.S. dollars, up 24.59 U.S. dollars, an increase of 5.9 percent.