Word: handset
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...chutzpah?Mitac's president Billy Ho praises him as "full of courage"?but a turnaround will take more than guts. Lee must repair the German unit while tussling with Nokia, Motorola and Samsung for global market share. Even Lee admits that how successfully he integrates his new handset business "will determine the destiny of BenQ." But the reality for BenQ and the other Taiwan tech outfits is that high-risk ventures may offer the best chance at survival. "They realize they have to do something very drastic," says IDC's Pulskamp. For Taiwan, it's take center stage, or else...
...becoming more common), you can set your phone to send calls to the Uniden. Why? So that you can leave your mobile phone in a spot near the window where it gets the best reception, yet carry on animated conversations walking all around the house with the Uniden cordless handset. The only restriction is that your mobile needs to be within about 30 feet of the cordless phone's base station, and preferably a lot closer...
...landline, you can run both into the phone, receiving calls from either line as they come in. In case your mobile rings while you're on your land line, you can just put one call on hold and answer the other. Crazier still, one person can use the cordless handset to make a landline call, while the other makes a mobile call on the cordless base station...
...Nomura security analyst Richard Windsor, who predicts 25.8 million Microsoft users by 2007, behind Symbian's 54.3 million. Clifford, 45, is fazed less by Microsoft and by other mobile operating systems like Linux and Palmsource's PalmOS than by another force: his target customers. If he can get more handset vendors to adopt Symbian technology and can persuade his existing customers to broaden their Symbian line instead of using their own software, he can reduce the company's reliance on Nokia, which represents 80% of all sales, according to Canalys. The selling point: the Symbian operating system lets handsets...
CELL PHONE -- Another famous phone batterer, this star pleaded guilty to hammering an assistant in the head with a handset in a Toronto hotel...