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...Forward Spin: Nokia is clearly feeling the impact of the worldwide economic slowdown. But if Ollila is right, wireless and broadband will be the drivers that will restore growth to the tech industry...
...Quite a change from Christensen's early career, when he worked first at Britain's Psion, once a leading provider of handheld computing devices. Then he co-founded Symbian, a joint venture involving Nokia, Ericsson, Motorola, Matsushita and Psion, which still has a shot at being the dominant operating system for so-called smart phones...
...China. The stakes are huge: tech consultancy Ovum predicts that in five years 46% of the world's 1.95 billion cell phone owners will be using wireless data services. Microsoft is not only competing with Symbian in mobile operating systems, but also positioning itself against Finnish phone maker Nokia in "middleware," the software platforms that mobile phone operators will use (see No. 2, Jorma Ollila...
...data services in Europe with Vodafone, T-Mobile, Telefonica and Orange. On the hardware front it has announced agreements with "white-label" manufacturers - those that turn out products for branding by other companies - to use Stinger, its smart phone platform. Analysts see this as Microsoft's attempt to offset Nokia's powerful name recognition by allowing telecom operators to place their own brands on phones running Microsoft software...
...American with Taiwanese roots, Tsai plans to get into the name game by turning Global Name Registry, a technology infrastructure company in London started by four Norwegians, into a multimillion-dollar global business. Last November GNR beat dozens of other applicants - including Nokia, Lycos and Novell - in a competition to control one of seven new top-level Internet domains, additions to the ever-popular .com suffix that designates companies...