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sony ericssonListen to your favourite sounds while on the move with the trendy Outdoor Wireless Speaker MS500. A first for Sony Ericsson, the colourful and powerful Bluetooth™ speaker gives you a festival experience wherever you are or want to go!



Whether hanging out on a beach or enjoying urban life, the superior sound quality and cool design of the MS500 will impress all your friends.

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Mar 05th, 2009

Univision and AT&T Sign Multi-Year Content Agreement for AT&T U-verse TV

Posted by Michael Lubensky @ 11:46 pm

AT&TUnivision Communications Inc., the premier Spanish-language media company in the United States, and AT&T* today announced a multi-year content agreement as part of the AT&T U-verseSM TV channel lineup.

The agreement includes continued carriage of Univision’s owned and operated broadcast stations; affiliated stations owned and operated by Entravision Communications Corporation (NYSE:EVC), Equity Media Holdings Corporation, Calipatria Broadcasting Company, LLC and JKB Associates, Inc.; and distribution of the cable network, Galavisión, and the network feeds for Univision and TeleFutura.

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MotorolaThe National Football League (NFL) today announced that it has selected Motorola, Inc. (NYSE:MOT) as the official supplier of end-to-end 802.11a/b/g (Wi-Fi) wireless networking solutions for all media covering Super Bowl XLIII. For the fourth year, the NFL will leverage Motorola’s expertise in secure enterprise-class wireless communications to offer reliable wireless connectivity for the more than 4,000 media members covering every pregame and game-day Super Bowl story.

Super Bowl XLIII is a demanding environment due to the business critical expectations, temporary facilities, high user density and radio frequency (RF) congestion. Motorola’s wireless network overcomes these challenges to enable the media to seamlessly access the Internet while moving through several on-site Super Bowl venues. Media interested in accessing the wireless network, powered by Motorola, can easily connect to the Internet from the media areas at the Super Bowl XLIII Media Center (Tampa Convention Center), in the team hotels and at the press areas of Raymond James Stadium by using their Wi-Fi compliant computing devices (laptops, PDAs or cellular phones).

Motorola is an industry leader in providing end-to-end networking solutions for the home, business and government. For Super Bowl XLIII, Motorola has deployed Motorola RFS6000 wireless switches, AP300 access ports, AP5131 mesh-enabled access points and Motorola AirDefense Solutions wireless security sensors. Offering industry-leading security and resiliency, the Super Bowl XLIII wireless network will allow members of the media to access and upload rich multimedia content, file news stories or blog about their experiences from any Wi-Fi-enabled device they carry.

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sprintIn today’s challenging economic environment, businesses need to pay only for the tools that are critical to how they conduct business. With new and unique Nextel Direct Connect(R) Custom Plans available from Sprint, businesses can do exactly that. They can easily select a plan that includes the tools their workgroups use most and the flexibility to add a bucket of minutes based on what will actually be used. The new plans provide unlimited Direct Connect, Group Connect, Mobile-to-Mobile, Text Messaging and Picture Mail, starting at $29.99 per month.

With other mobile providers, a business is asked to choose a plan based on monthly anytime voice minutes required per user and then pay incrementally for features such as push-to-talk, text messaging and picture mail. While this approach makes sense for consumers, businesses use mobile communications tools differently and need plans to address the fact that most communication occurs between workgroup members. With Nextel Direct Connect Custom Plans, the focus is on key services used most by workgroups, which are bundled with unlimited usage, at a low flat monthly rate. A business can then attach a bucket of anytime voice minutes to be shared with the entire workgroup.

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Jan 21st, 2009

Ericsson reports strong fourth quarter

Posted by Michael Lubensky @ 08:31 pm

Ericsson

  • Sales SEK 67.0 (54.5) b., up 23%, full year SEK 208.9 (187.8) b., up 11%
  • Operating income 1) 2) SEK 9.2 (7.6) b., full year SEK 23.9 (30.6) b.
  • Operating margin 1) 2) 13.7% (14.0%), full year 11.4% (16.3%)
  • Cash flow SEK 7.0 (12.0) b., full year SEK 24.0 (19.2) b.
  • Net income 2) 3) SEK 4.1 (5.8) b., full year SEK 11.7 (22.1) b.
  • Earnings per share 2) 3) 4) SEK 1.21 (1.77), full year SEK 3.52 (6.84)
  • Board of Directors proposes dividend of SEK 1,85 per share
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    1) Excluding restructuring charges of SEK 3.0 b. in the quarter and SEK 7.6 b. for the full year
    2) Including capital gains of SEK 0.2 b. in first quarter and SEK 0.8 b. in fourth quarter 2008
    3) Attributable to stockholders of the Parent Company, excluding minority interests
    4) A reverse split 1:5 was made in June 2008, comparable figures restated accordingly
     
    CEO COMMENTS

    “We have had a solid performance in 2008,” said Carl-Henric Svanberg, President and CEO of Ericsson. “Sales grew by 11% with good demand for our entire portfolio and across the world. Changes in currency rates had very small effect on full year growth. Professional services have continued to show strong growth. Operating margins, excluding Sony Ericsson, have steadily improved, and our financial position is strong with net cash of SEK 35 b. Sony Ericsson is affected by the economic downturn and the declining demand in the consumer market and has taken necessary actions.

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