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Wal-mart’s pricier...
The world’s biggest retail giant, Wal-Mart – which has closed down its operations in South Korea and Germany this year – has come up
with a new idea to attract the flock of wealthy shoppers so that they pick up high-margin articles. The retail behemoth is launching a
collection of holiday home decor that will be designed by world-renowned designer and wedding planner Colin Cowie. The list of items
includes barware, photo frames, dinnerware, napery, champagne flutes and floral topiary. The collection will be christened C Squared
and is available October onwards.
To fix the fixed-lines
Italy’s biggest telephone company, Telecom Italia SpA, unveiled its intentions to re-organise its fixed-line and mobile units, at a board
meeting in Milan. The plan includes sharpening focus on internet services and promoting media content. The company’s moving out
Chairman, Marco Tronchetti Provera, had been holding talks with Rupert Murdoch at News Corp. to strike a deal to provide media content
using Telecom Italia’s high-speed internet service. This could spark the sale of Italia’s mobile units in Italy and Brazil for $59 billion. The
Italian company has a mobile subscriber base of 52.7 million in Italy and Brazil. However, it is to be noted that the company has reported
a 15.7% drop in net profits during H106.
Nokia to ring with Moto Razr!!!
The American & Finnish handset manufacturers, Motorola & Nokia, respectively, have signed a deal to work jointly, enabling
their customers to watch television broadcasts through each other’s networks on mobile handsets. Broadcast mobile TV is
the latest service that mobile companies offer to lure subscribers to add to their current base. The world leaders are planning
to use DVB-H technology (digital video broadcast-handheld), which competes with two other mobile TV formats called DMB
and MediaFlo. Jointly, Nokia and Motorola carry the onus of selling 55% of the global mobile sale. It is estimated that 50 million
DVB-H enabled handsets will be sold by 2010. In order to push the adoption of DVB-H, five companies – Intel, Modeo,
Motorola, Nokia & Texas Instruments – had formed the Mobile DTV Alliance in January this year.
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