Siemens Cites Problem With New Phones
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Siemens AG said Friday it anticipates unspecified additional costs from a software problem with new mobile phones that has led retailers to suspend sales.
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Ongoing legal disputes over mobile phone patents could affect handset development and prices, experts warn.
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Trade group says chipset tech in some phones runs afoul of patents at the center of Qualcomm's battle with Broadcom.
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Mobile phone tune may play too loudly, Siemens says.
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The US stock market watchdog has asked German justice officials for help probing possible corruption at engineering group Siemens, a spokesman for the federal justice office told AFP on Wednesday.
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Instead of trumpeting low prices and new phones in ads, cellphone companies are more and more pointing out their rivalsÂ shortcomings.
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German electronics giant Siemens could decide on the future of its mobile phone manufacturing division as early as next month, a company spokesman said.
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German security company says it found minor problems in SP2; researchers predict more critical issues will emerge.
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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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DECEMBER 08, 2004 (IDG NEWS SERVICE) - DUSSELDORF, GERMANY - They&#39;re coming to mobile phones -- those nasty viruses, worms and Trojan Horses that have, on more than one occasion, crippled PCs.
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There's a lot of uncertainty surrounding the Chinese cell-phone powerhouse.
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Siemens AG, Germany s largest engineering company, said fourth-quarter profit fell because of costs related to design faults in trains and a software bug in mobile phones.
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(InfoWorld) - BenQ Mobile plans to file for bankruptcy protection in Germany after its Taiwanese parent decided to stop investing in the money-losing operation, the mobile phone maker said Thursday. Taiwan's BenQ Corp., which will continue to develop and market BenQ-Siemens brand mobile phones, said it made the decision because it saw no end to the losses after already sinking over â¬600 million ($761.7 million) into the unit. "We made this painful decision after losses continued to pile up despite our best efforts," said K.Y. Lee, chairman of BenQ, at a news conference in Taipei. BenQ said the bankruptcy filing should not affect customers since the parent company will continue to develop, manufacture, and sell BenQ-Siemens handsets from Asia. The decision comes almost a year after BenQÂ took over the mobile phone businessÂ from Siemens, and leaves the fate of 3,000 German workers at BenQ Mobile in doubt. It also highlights the difficulty of turning around a sinking business. Under Siemens, the handset division had been losing market share. The German company even paid BenQ â¬250 million to take the ailing division off its hands. BenQ has posted losses for the three financial quarters that have passed since it acquired BenQ Mobile. Analysts have blamed stiff competition in the mobile phone industry for the troubles many handset makers have faced this year. Industry leaders Nokia and Motorola have both gained market share this year, mainly at the expense of smaller rivals, according to market researcher Gartner. BenQ's share of the handset market dropped to 3.2 percent in the second quarter, from 4.8 percent the same time last year, according to Gartner. Meanwhile, Nokia's share rose to 33.6 percent from 31.6 percent, and Motorola's increased to 21.9 percent from 17.7 percent. If BenQ Mobile can return to financial health as it restructures under the protection of the German government, it could return to the BenQ family of companies, BenQ said. BenQ Mobile's headquarters in Munich, as well as sites in Kamp-Lintfort and Bocholt in North-Rhine-Westphalia will be directly affected by the decision, while operations in Brazil will undergo a financial review. The Taiwanese company had already taken several steps to reduce costs and turn BenQ Mobile around, includingÂ laying offÂ over 500 workers earlier this year in Germany, and announcing a plan toÂ shut down mobile phone productionÂ in Taiwan. The company also announced several measures intended to streamline its operations, including a plan toÂ spin offÂ its non-handset manufacturing business.ADVERTISEMENTMAKE SOA REAL WITH IBM WEBSPHERE PODCASTStreamline processes and maximize efficiency within a proven service oriented architecture. Take back control of your business processes with IBM WebSphere.
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Siemens AG, maker of big-ticket industrial goods such as power generators and streetcars, saw profits fall 10 percent in its most recent quarter, the company said Thursday, as its mobile phone and transportation businesses posted losses.
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reserved. US digital wireless communications products developer Qualcomm has announced that German handset maker Siemens is to build wireless multimedia handsets based on chipsets from Qualcomm&#39;s WCDMA (UMTS) Mobile Station Modem (MSM) portfolio.
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Mobile phone tunes are considered by many to be a curse of modern life, but for users of some Siemens handsets they could be a positive hazard to health, the German engineering giant warned on Thursday.
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DÃSSELDORF, GERMANY - Siemens AG has received the green light from operators to offer a patch for a software defect in some of its 65 series mobile phones that could cause hearing damage, the Munich-based manufacturer said Tuesday in a statement.