IDC sees decline in handheld market
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The global market for handheld devices continues to dwindle, according to data released by IDC this week. The industry has recorded a year-over-year fall for the third successive quarter, the researcher said.
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Japanese game makers, faced with a shrinking local market and increasing competition from overseas rivals, are pinning hopes on mobile platforms such as handheld machines and cellphones to stir up demand.
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Sharp Electronics plans to stop selling its Linux-based personal digital assistant (PDA) in the US, reports Associated Press. The company will continue to
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Shares of telephone services company IDT Corp , which are already down 40 percent this year, could fall further amid management shuffles and a rapidly decreasing cash stockpile, the financial newspaper Barron's said in its September 10 edition.
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Giving customers handheld price scanners is not the next big thing. Radio frequency identification chips are.
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The worldwide market for handheld devices saw its third successive quarter of year-over-year decline in the third quarter of 2004, according to a new report released by IDC.
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Taiwan's BenQ, which unsuccessfully took over Siemens' mobile phone business, has returned, but mobile phones will play a much smaller role, its executives say.
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Struggling electronics firm considers breaking itself up in a move that could reshape the mobiles industry
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For the third straight quarter, shipments of handheld devices fell as some prominent vendors decided to pull back from the market, according to research firm IDC.
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Global sales of chip equipment are expected to fall 5.2 percent next year, an industry group said Wednesday in a sharp reversal of its midyear forecast of 24 percent growth.
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Shipments of devices running the Palm OS have declined sharply, researcher says.
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Analysts predict growth in mobile phone sales will drop below 10 percent this year.
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Following Sony&#39;s surprising exit from the US PDA handheld market earlier this summer, three other companies have announced their intentions to withdraw from the US handheld market.
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The Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA) yesterday scaled back its forecast for this year&#39;s semiconductor sales, after demand slowed though July, August and September.
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The DVD player, which experienced phenomenal adoption rates the past few years, is settling into maturity. Market research firm IDC forecasts a drop in revenue for the DVD player chip market from 2004 through 2008.
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The number of companies building processors is likely to shrink, researcher says.
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It's good news for users: as CPU and memory chip sales fall, so will prices--to vendors' dismay.