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...player, but not yet Premiership level - at least not in telecoms. According to tech consultancy IDC, based in Framingham, Mass., $30 billion Alcatel ranks fourth, behind Cisco, Nortel and Lucent, in data-equipment sales to telecom service operators...
...entire market viable and attract ever more software developers to create applications for the Palm operating system. "Palm is getting the first strong competition that it's ever really had. We're going to see its market share decreasing rapidly," predicts Alex Slawsby, analyst at the research firm IDC...
...more segmented, with Microsoft and Research in Motion homing in on corporate users, Sony targeting upscale consumers, and Handspring and Palm attacking from all angles. But Palm still has the most to lose. "The onus is on Palm to continue to innovate in its design and operating system," says IDC's Slawsby. Let the hand-to-hand combat begin...
...which are software tools that instantly scan hundreds of retail sites to find the lowest price for a given product. Some 4 million shoppers used these bots in October, double the number a year ago. "Shop bots offer a real value to consumers," says Barry Parr, a director with IDC, an online research firm. "They're here to stay...
When that happens, Japanese consumer-electronics giants like Sony and Panasonic are likely to stage their own assaults on the market and chip away at Nokia's lead, warns Iain Gillott of IDC. But Ollila is undaunted. "In 1991," he recalls, "people were telling me, 'Now that you've been able to get [your mobile-phones business] into the black, you should sell it quick, because the Japanese will...