Cell shipments hit record
Worldwide shipments of mobile phones reached a record 242 million units in the fourth quarter, surpassing the previous peak of 200 million units during the 2004 holiday quarter, according to research firm iSuppli Corp.
For all of 2005, 813 million units were shipped, up 14 percent from 713 million in 2004.
Finland-based Nokia Corp. led the pack, grabbing a 32 percent share of the market, followed by Motorola Inc. at 18 percent, according to iSuppli. Samsung Electronics Co., LG Electronics Inc. and Sony Ericsson, respectively, rounded out the top five.
Keeping up with the Enron trial
Here’s how to keep up with the river of news flowing from Houston for the next several weeks, if not months.
The Houston Chronicle’s Chron.com has three Web logs:
Enron: TrialWatch, Enron: Legal Commentary, and Full Disclosure at http://www.chron.com/ news/specials/enron/.
Also, here’s Google News search for Enron Trial, http://news.google.com/ news?hlen&tabwn&ieUTF- 8&ieISO-88591&scoringd& qenron+trial&btnGSearch+ News.
By the way, “Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room” received a Documentary Feature Oscar nomination.
No free rides, AT&T chief says
The chairman and chief executive of AT&T said Monday that somebody else is going to have to pay for delivering game and movie downloads across his company’s networks.
In remarks before a New York presentation Tuesday to investors, Ed Whitacre said, “I think the content providers should be paying for the use of the network … for accessing the so-called Internet cloud,” the Financial Times reported.
“Now, they might pass it on to their customers who are looking for a movie, for example,” he continued. “But that ought to be a cost of doing business for them. They shouldn’t get on (the network) and expect a free ride.”
Site adds drink calculator
The events invitation site Evite is adding features for planning parties, giving hosts such tools as a drink calculator to figure out how much alcohol to buy based on whether guests are light or heavy drinkers.
Hosts enter the duration of the party and the number of light, average and heavy drinkers attending. They also specify whether they’ll serve beer, wine, liquor or any combination.
A chart is provided to substitute alcohol with soda or juice, but amounts must be manually calculated.