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...wants to get inside your cell phone too. This is not necessarily a bad thing. If you can get more rest on a train in the future because the guy next to you is checking his office e-mail via Outlook or browsing full-color Web pages on his handset instead of screaming "I'm on the train!" into it, you can thank Bill Gates for the peace and quiet...
...protect its lead, DoCoMo has been forced to spend more in sales commissions and handset subsidies, narrowing profit margins. Compounding the com-pany's problems is a disturbing dip in the all-important average revenue per user, called the ARPU in industry lingo. Thanks in part to i-mode, Japan's cell-phone users spend more on wireless services than their counterparts elsewhere in the world?about $63 per month compared with $53 in the U.S., for example. But recession-weary Japanese are cutting back on spending by going without or substituting cheaper wireless e-mail for expensive voice calls...
...waiting to buy your widgets is a mirage. More than 400 million people live in China's cities, where they have, on average, an annual disposable income that equals about $760. That's not nearly enough to buy a Xiali automobile for $9,600 or even a $145 mobile handset. The real targets: about 3 million Chinese who have assets worth more than $120,000, plus 15 million who have more than $60,000. This Chinese middle class's disposable income grew about 7% last year. But the advice of old China hands is: Get in, learn the market...
...Trouble is, they don't have that kind of cash on hand, so France Telecom, Deutsche Telekom and others have piled up billions in debt in the teeth of a recession. And, oh yes, nobody's sure when 3G, which is supposed to allow true Internet access via your handset, is really going to work...
BEOCOM 6000, $475 This cordless phone from Bang & Olufsen www.bang-olufsen.com is functional as well as stylish. One base unit can support as many as six handsets ($275 each for extras); if you add a number to the speed-dial/caller-ID database of one handset, you add it to them...