Mobile phone companies have struggled to encourage significant numbers of consumers to use their phones' multimedia functions.
In its announcement today, Nokia said it would trim its business units to concentrate on four divisions: mobile phones, multimedia, networks and enterprise solutions.
The strength of Motorola's peers means the company is constantly playing catch-up in smart phones, multimedia phones and toucatch-up in
Digital signal processing is the technology that underlies many of the gadgets we can no longer live without — direct-broadcast TV, cellular phones, multimedia, CD-ROMs, secure on-line banking.
Mobile-cell-phone multimedia-text-messaging boosters tested in this study provided preliminary evidence of efficacy of the enhanced HIV prevention intervention for African American youth.
Mr. Villalonga also spun off cellular phone and multimedia businesses, as well as the Internet arm, Terra Networks.
A rally started in November, after NTT DoCoMo of Japan introduced the I-mode phone, a multimedia, Internet-linked cell phone that lets users download news, e-mail and even popular cartoon characters.
Its year-ahead roadmap, which it shared with Forbes.com, calls for more smart phones and multimedia handsets, a major touch-screen phone, a partnership with Google on its open-source mobile platform, Android, and, yes, more Razrs.
The goal is to pack its phones with multimedia services.
"But if you include access to the Net over cell phones and multimedia stations, I think the numbers are much more similar".
And, breaking with Telefonica's tradition as a unified national giant, he is spinning off businesses like cell phones and multimedia operations to cash in on investor appetite for technology stocks.
