Platinum luxury phones have 'no competition'
News Having discovered a "strong demand" for luxury phones, that company became Vertu. In 1995, Frank Nuovo, the chief designer of Nokia, had an idea that mobile communication devices would one day be available not just in the mass market, but also in...
[March 22, 2002, 12:09]
Schmidt: Full steam ahead for Google-Yahoo deal
News In a business, sometimes you have the luxury of patience, and sometimes you're in a really hard situation. We have the luxury of time to try and invest in things that are really revolutionary," said Schmidt, who earlier called a successful YouTube...
[September 18, 2008, 9:10]
Nokia to exit Japanese market
News The Finnish phone maker announced on Thursday that it will stop manufacturing mobile phones for NTT DoCoMo and SoftBank Mobile, but will continue producing its luxury Vertu brand, according to a report by Reuters.
[November 28, 2008, 8:01]
Sony to make handheld game device
News Nokia is also betting on the market for luxury handheld game players. Up until now, cell phones have just looked like cell phones, not really cool gaming devices. The Finnish mobile phone giant revealed final details of its N-Gage combination game...
[May 14, 2003, 7:54]
E-commerce needs a new hero
Talkback For example, Mr Timms was proud that his poorer constituents have mobile phones - implying that, thanks to his NL government, they could now afford "luxury" items. Mr Timms seemed completely unaware that such people have neither the stability in...
[March 7, 2005, 12:16]
Motorola AURA - a mobile for £1,300
Blog The luxury mobile phone market is one I've never really understood. But then I don't really understand the luxury market for any good or service. The thing is, much of what mobile phones are meant to display is not made for round screens.
[April 21, 2009, 8:25]
Mr Moto falling
Leader There is no such luxury now. We've been here before: most famously, when success in analogue mobile phones in the US blinded the company to the digital revolution going on in the rest of the world. It powered the first wave of the mobile-phone...
[January 24, 2008, 16:03]
Internet is a dot.con says survey
News The study -- conducted by Internet security firm ArmorGroup -- finds that 35 percent of all luxury goods for sale on the Web are fake leading the firm to dub the e-commerce revolution a dot.con. With its ease of access, massive audience and...
[July 4, 2000, 14:35]
Gartner to CIOs: 'You're in business, not IT'
News A business is a luxury cruise liner and the IT department is the boiler room, said Govekar. Mobile phones, Skype, instant messaging, the BlackBerry, email, voicemail, the work phone and home phone are part of every worker's toolkit, but it is...
[November 22, 2007, 9:18]
Roundup: Gadgets galore at Live 2000
News Fri, 22nd Sep 2000 If you want to experience the Rolls Royce of the mobile world, wallow in the luxury of the Siemens SL45 From news of next year's hot mobile phones to new PDAs, wireless headphones to cellular drinks machines, ZDNet brings you...
[September 22, 2000, 16:31]
Budget MiniDV camcorders review
Reviews Not so long ago, digital camcorders were luxury items costing well over £1,000 for a decent-quality model. Like mobile phones in the 1980s, owning a MiniDV camcorder said something about your economic and social status.
[November 15, 2002, 8:28]
The power of being a monopoly!
Talkback Microsoft on the other hand enjoy a near monopoly in desktop computing, thus they have the luxury to impose deadlines! In all other aspects of life, you're free to buy an older version, take mobile phones for example; I can still buy a Nokia from 2...
[April 28, 2008, 18:17]
Mitnick calls for hackers' war stories
News As well as being able to use the Internet again, Mitnick has been able to leave the US -- a luxury not afforded to him while under the conditions of his release agreement. I've been in the Czech Republic, Poland, Spain, Helsinki [in] Finland...
[December 19, 2003, 9:40]
Luxury phone sticks to the basics
News For example, there are so many Bluetooth protocols and there is no one accepted standard," said Giles Rees, Vertu's vice president of global sales, at the launch of Vertu's latest line of luxury phones, coined The Ascent Collection.
[February 10, 2004, 9:10]
