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SYDNEY The Bon Mot ($155) by Kate Spade is popular among beach-bound Aussies
...losers in the race to offer thousands of useful smart-phone applications may be Motorola (MOT) and Samsung which still do not have major initiatives to bring in software developers and the customers that often come as a by-product when attractive products are available for handsets...
...Elliott adapted Easy Virtue with co-writer Sheridan Jobbins and has been respectful to the basic plot (although he brightens up the ending) and to Coward's gift with a bon mot. "We try not to speak of it," John tells Larita, referencing his father's disgraceful postwar doings in France. "Except in public." I do not have a copy of the original play on hand, but if that isn't lifted straight out of Coward, I'll eat Larita's cloche. (Not until after I've worn it a bit though. Charlotte Walters' costumes are perfection.) I suspect this...
What does not make sense, at least at first blush, is that the financial results of all of the other major handset companies from Sony Ericsson to Nokia (NOK) to Motorola (MOT) were down. These firms can hardly give handsets away, much less sell them. Each of these operations said that global cell phone unit sales will be down in 2009. What is even more puzzling is that large handset companies don't just make smart phones; they make a lot of cheap phones for people in emerging markets and consumers who don't want a handset that acts...
Motorola (MOT) is another American business iconic brand which is close to the point of extinction. The company's core handset business has been flailing for close to two years. One CEO was fired over a year ago, but now the firm has two CEOs. One of them was to run the handset businesses after it was spun-off from the main company. That process has been delayed and may never happen. Motorola lost $3.6 billion in the fourth quarter of last year. For that quarter, revenue from the company's handset unit dropped by over half Several members...