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Today industrial parks outside the city center house research labs from Nokia and Ericsson. U.S. bearings producer Timken is investing $15 million in a factory that will start production this year. Intel has poured $525 million into two chip-assembly and -packaging plants, one of which opened in 2005, while the second will start production this year. These facilities ship from Chengdu's airport to customers around the globe. Overall, foreign direct investment in Chengdu totaled $1.9 billion from 2001 to 2005. The results have been spectacular. GDP growth in Chengdu averaged 13.3% between 2001 and 2005, outpacing Shanghai...
Lionbridge and its competitors recruit at universities and industry websites such as linguistlist.org with specialists of all stripes in demand, from automotive experts to those with a knack for medical jargon. "India has about a dozen dialects needed to capture a substantial customer base, says Bolen, "so for Nokia we're translating applications and phones and instructions in nine different ways...
...predict, let alone solve, the world's problems or to avoid wars they cannot win. "People comprehend this at gut level," says Eno, "and it makes them want different kinds of experiences in their art." And, perhaps, it makes them want some art in their daily experiences. Witness Nokia, which for its latest range of upmarket phones commissioned from Eno a suite of 20 subtle ring tones based on the soughing of Saharan winds. Like ambient music, that will strike many as so much noodling for a niche market. But we live in an age that takes noodling seriously...
...mobile-phone industry used to be straightforward. Operators, like Vodafone, ran networks based on cellular technologies that transmitted signals through the air from giant, ground-based antennas. And handset vendors, like Nokia and Motorola, churned out phones that worked on those networks, which they'd sell through the operators. An easy-enough, symbiotic relationship for all involved. [an error occurred while processing this directive...
...even strained alliances with their old best customers is not stopping Motorola and its competitors from rolling out a range of new wi-fi and WiMax handsets. Nokia, the world's leading handset vendor, for example, offers at least 12 wi-fi devices, and says it's prepared to offer WiMax phones if the market wants them. Motorola started shipping its A910 wi-fi phone in Europe this month, and is providing WiMax handsets to Japanese provider Softbank for a planned trial. It's enough to make mobile-phone operators long for the days when they knew who their friends...