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...interview with reporters yesterday morning, Gates said Microsoft and its competitors still need Harvard graduates...

Author: By Zachary M. Seward, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Dropout Gates Drops In To Talk | 2/27/2004 | See Source »

...churn out 18 million phones a year, but since China, the world's largest mobile-phone market, already has 250 million users, growth is slowing down, and Xu knows that he needs to stay competitive. ("I have a dream that we will be as big as Motorola, IBM or Microsoft," Xu says...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China: TIME Global Business: China's Big, Big Bird | 2/23/2004 | See Source »

When you hear the phrase "tech-market domination," you probably think of Microsoft. But in the world of mobile phones, the name is Nokia: depending on whose numbers you believe, the Finnish giant sells up to a whopping 40% of the world's consumer cell phones, almost 180 million last year. Yet even mighty Nokia risks developing an achilles' heel - namely, the soon-to-be-hot corporate market. Fortune 500 companies are desperate for phones that double as computers so travelling execs can tap into corporate data from afar. "It's an important growth market, and Nokia is worried that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Innovate And Dominate | 2/22/2004 | See Source »

Nokia is worried that PC guys like microsoft are coming into [its] space as computers and phones converge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Innovate And Dominate | 2/22/2004 | See Source »

...3gsm World Congress in Cannes, and Nokia doesn't want to be left in the wings. Nokia's eagerness to grab the spotlight shows how badly mobile vendors want to get inside the minds - and budgets - of corporate buyers. One high-ranking mobile-industry executive tells Time that Microsoft and operator behemoth Vodafone are working out a deal to sell Microsoft-based phones to corporate customers, and could announce their alliance this week. (Neither Vodafone nor Microsoft would comment.) Nokia needs to keep a step ahead of Microsoft, which is making slow but steady progress trying to work a pared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Innovate And Dominate | 2/22/2004 | See Source »

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