New Chief at Sony Ericsson Venture
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Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications named Hideki Komiyama as its new top executive on Tuesday as it announced that Miles Flint will step down for personal reasons. Mr. Flint, who became president of the company in 2004 and helped bring the venture to profitability, will remain executive adviser to Mr. Komiyama, currently chairman of Sony Electronics, until the end of the year. Mr. Komiyama will take up his position Nov. 1. Sony Ericsson, based in London, was founded in 2001 as a joint venture of Ericsson of Stockholm and Sony of Tokyo.
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Sony Ericsson is the latest company to throw its hat into the rapidly expanding ring of digital music providers. What this cell phone provider will offer is Sony's expansive arsenal of artists, whose songs and videos will be available in full-length.
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The former head of LG's Korean mobile carrier, LG Telecom, will become the new chief executive officer of LG Electronics, the company said Monday.
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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said  on Tuesday that it would launch a new service on its phones  that would allow full music downloading, initially focusing on  new and up-and-coming artists.
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Elevator and escalator manufacturer Kone Corp. said Monday that a Nokia executive was appointed as its new chief executive.
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New facility in South India will handle research and development for Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications.
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Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications named Hideki Komiyama as its new top executive Tuesday as it announced that Miles Flint will step down for personal reasons.
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In a deal aimed at rivaling Appleâs iTunes and Nokiaâs Ovi, Sony Ericsson will offer more than five million music tracks on it PlayNow Internet and mobile phone service.
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World number four mobile producer  Sony Ericsson   said on Tuesday it would  launch eight new phones, four of which would be at the low end  of the price-scale.
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Microsoft on Sunday night unveiled a deal with Sony (NYSE:SNE) Ericsson, which will see the Swedish-Japanese mobile handset maker use Microsoft's Windows Mobile operating system in a new flagship handset to be launched later this year.
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Sort of Owners of Sony Ericsson smartphones released last year now have some hope of seeing some bugs fixed.â¦
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Mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson said   on Tuesday that it would launch a new service on its phones   that would allow full music downloading, initially focusing on   new and up-and-coming artists.
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(InfoWorld) - The former head of LG's Korean mobile carrier, LG Telecom, will become the new chief executive officer of LG Electronics, the company said Monday. The appointment of Yong Nam will be effective from Jan. 1, 2007, and will give him control of a vast consumer electronics company that ranks among the world's largest manufacturers of mobile phone handsets, televisions, and air conditioners. Through its stake in LG.Philips LCD Co., the company is also a major producer of LCD (liquid crystal display) panels. Nam is currently head of strategic business at LG Corp. and led LG Telecom from October 1998 to May this year. Prior to those positions he has also served as president of LG's former multimedia division. LG Electronics also promoted Simon Kang from head of Korea sales and marketing to CEO of its digital display division and Skott Ahn from head of mobile handset research and development to CEO of its entire mobile communications division. The company also appointed Dominique Oh to head of European mobile communications and John Herington and Eric Surdej as the marketing heads of the U.S. and France divisions, respectively.
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The world's fourth largest mobile  phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled seven new mobile phone  models on Sunday, including one high-end cellphone using  Microsoft's Windows Mobile software.
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Japanese-Swedish mobile phone maker Sony Ericsson has reported a tripling of its third-quarter profit. Earnings at the world&#39;s fifth-biggest handset maker were driven by strong sales of new camera phones and topped market expectations.
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Sony Ericsson is launching six new phones, including a high-end Walkman model with 9GB Flash memory, redesigned display.
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(InfoWorld) - SonyÂ is reshuffling responsibilities in its key electronics group, allowing the head of the division to play a bigger role in Sony's research and development actvities. The company, which is still investigating the cause of laptop PC fires caused byÂ faulty Lithium Ion batteriesÂ it produced, will shift day-to-day control of all its major consumer and industrial products to Katsumi Ihara, Sony said on Monday. Ihara currently heads Sony's TV and video business. His new responsibilities will include Sony's Vaio computers, digital still cameras, digital video cameras, and Walkman audio products. Sony's semiconductor and component business will be put under the day-to-day control of Yutaka Nakagawa, who currently heads the digital imaging and audio business. Nakagawa will also be promoted from executive vice president to executive deputy president. Putting the running of the product and component businesses under Ihara and Nakagawa will mean that Ryoji Chubachi, president and CEO of the electronics business, will be free to take direct control of Sony's research and development activities.