With just hours to go before Microsoft Corp. launched its Xbox games console in Japan, Chairman and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates underlined the importance of software in the success of his console and the buzz his company can create among consumers.
Despite the hype and billions of dollars about to be spent on 3G (third-generation) networks around the world, shipments of 3G handsets are expected to make up less than a third of all phones shipped by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications AB in 2005, the company's president said Tuesday.
Shipments of 3G handsets are expected to make up less than one-third of all phones shipped by Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications in 2005, says the firm
U.K.-based wireless operator Vodafone Group PLC "is understood to have reached an agreement" to acquire a 15 per cent stake in Japan Telecom Co. (JT), the Financial Times newspaper reported Monday.