Global Market for Cellphone Ring Tones Is Shrinking
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After years of double-digit growth rates, the global ring tone market appears to have come to the end of its crescendo.
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Smaller cellphone companies are feeling pressures from national carriers entering rural areas now that urban markets are saturated.
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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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Third-party ringtone creators for the iPhone believe there's a viable market for their software.
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The global mobile phone market is set to  grow to 2 billion subscribers by the end of 2005, fueled by  strong demand from developing economies in Asia and Latin  America, Deloitte & Touche said on Tuesday.
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Nokia has bowed out of the ringtone market following poor sales from its Club Nokia website. Its exit should also smooth relationships with mobile network operators which think that their hardware providers
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A growing international trade in discarded mobile phones is helping the worldâs poor. But will it poison the earth?
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The European mobile phone games market   is coping with its first slowdown as telecoms carriers shift   advertising spending to mobile television or digital music, and   operators struggle to win new devotees.
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Analysts expect mobile telecom services will grow more than 5 percent per year, but equipment market will shrink.
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The Motley Fool - If things keep going the way they are right now, soon there won't be any North American options available when the next developing market needs to install current-generation cell phone infrastructure.
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If a handheld device doesn't have voice capabilities, a growing number of users around the world aren't interested, according to IDC. For the third straight quarter, shipments of handheld devices such as personal digital assistants (PDAs) fell as some prominent vendors decided to pull back from the market, IDC said Wednesday.
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InfoWorld - Mobile developers around the world are in an uproar over a change Vodafone has made in the U.K. that dramatically decreases the quality of their products and that they fear could prevent new and innovative mobile services from reaching the market.
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By Tricia Duryee, Seattle Times  Feb. 12--Less than five months ago, InfoSpace said it was no longer investing in the business of selling ringtones and other content for cellphones.
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Global mobile phone use will top 3.25  billion -- equivalent to around half the world&#39;s population --  in 2007 as cell phone demand booms in China, India and Africa,  a survey said on Wednesday.
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Market researcher IDC expects growth  in the global market for mobile phones to slow to single digits  from this year onwards after unit sales rose 11.6 percent last  quarter, it said in a statement on Friday.
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With the advent of smartphones and declining popularity of personal digital assistant (PDAs), IDC has reported a drastic fall in sales of PDAs worldwide with the industry recording a year-on-year fall for the third successive quarter.
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Until federal regulators issued a landmark ruling in 1968, Americans could not own the telephones in their homes, nor attach answering machines or other devices to them. Now, a growing number of academics and consumer activists say it's time to deliver a similar ground-breaking jolt to the cellphone industry, possibly triggering a new round of customer options and technical innovations to rival the one that produced faxes, modems and the Internet....