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...overwhelms the living room, it also offers no privacy. Mobile phones, by contrast, are unobtrusive, as well as being a liberating way (especially for teenagers) to connect with friends outside the family home. I once asked an industry analyst why two of the world's leading mobile-phone companies, Ericsson and Nokia, were Scandinavian. The answer, my source claimed, was the outdoor life; because Swedes and Finns love dashing off to their huts in the deep woods, far from fixed lines, mobile phones were a godsend. Whole nations of sauna lovers and cross-country skiers became early adopters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Downsizing to Wireless | 5/7/2001 | See Source »

...Insert your own joke here about [a] Kate Hudson and Ray Romano competing for a reward of Sam Pellegrino or an Ericsson cell-phone call to their agents, [b] an all-rehab edition with Robert Downey Jr., Aaron Sorkin and Matthew Perry drying out in the Kalahari, or [c] Kathie Lee Gifford. Or don't. The very fact that a Celebrity Survivor can be contemplated in essence means that the line between reality and parody has forever been destroyed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: How Reality TV (Just Maybe) Saved the Writers from Themselves | 5/4/2001 | See Source »

...upgrade, complete with a sharp color display and support for a new, secure digital music format. By leveraging resources from its music, gaming and audio-video divisions, Sony may be able to create the ultimate portable gadget. And now the first PDA phones are on sale from Kyocera and Ericsson, with more on the way from Microsoft, Motorola, Nokia and others...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PDA Wars: Round 2 | 4/2/2001 | See Source »

...listing on the New York Stock Exchange, German electronics giant Siemens announced it would not meet its earlier sales and earnings targets. The firm's Infineon Technologies semiconductor unit was a victim of a global pullback in technology spending, which has sent memory chip prices plummeting. Sweden's Ericsson, owned directly or indirectly by half of that country's population, has announced that it will lose as much as $510 million in the first quarter instead of breaking even as expected, in large part because of the U.S. slowdown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sympathy Pains | 3/26/2001 | See Source »

...work hard to get these deals but recognize that sometimes we'll get them and sometimes we won't," Von Tetzchner says.?For many telecommunications firms, size matters: potential partners wonder whether a company as small as Opera can handle a client as big as Nokia. "Companies like Ericsson were naturally concerned about the size of the company and whether we would be able to handle problems," he says. As a result, Opera was forced to bulk up its administrative staff last year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nordic Opera | 3/12/2001 | See Source »

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