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...policy director, general counsel and deputy chief of staff. Abramoff and Rudy shared passions for sushi, racquetball and golf, and the lobbyist lavished sports tickets on the congressional aide. Two former DeLay staff members recall that Rudy would frequently e-mail Abramoff from inside Republican leadership meetings on a Motorola pager that Hill staff members carried as a precursor to their now ubiquitous BlackBerrys...
...World incomes meet the shrinking cost of technology, multinationals are betting that markets will bloom. In October Silicon Valley's Advanced Micro Devices introduced a $185 Personal Internet Communicator--a basic computer--for developing countries, while Taiwan-based VIA Technologies plans to launch a similar device costing just $100. Motorola last month unveiled a no-frills cell phone priced at $40; the cell-phone manufacturer says it expects to sell 6 million cell phones in six months in markets including China, India and Turkey. "You've got nearly 2 billion people who will be buying a phone--need a phone...
...gain customers in this high-volume, low-margin enterprise. "It's not as simple as finding a low price point," says Richard Brown, marketing vice president for VIA Technologies. Company executives need to understand not only what poor consumers can afford but also what they want and can use. Motorola's Burnes says the company went through four redesigns to develop a low-cost cell phone with battery life as long as 500 hours (for villagers without regular electricity) and an extra-loud volume for use in noisy markets...
...viewers so dispersed, mobile phones present a unique opportunity for the league to reach its fans through the one line they always have open. Later this year, Apple plans to shake up that industry even further. The company that transformed digital music is jointly developing a cell phone with Motorola. Called the Rokr, it will merge the iPod with a mobile phone in what could potentially be a huge new market for both digital music and cell phones--that is, if the phone venture can find a carrier willing to enter the uncharted territory of music via phone...
...start the country's technology sector, and in 1999?with $5 million in state investment and a board of directors made up of senior government ministers?NewMargin entered the market as an odd hybrid of old-school state planning and free-market hustle. It now counts telecom giants like Motorola and Alcatel among its investors and this year, according to Feng, will triple its investment capital...