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Quote: Gartner's latest and greatest analysis of the global smartphone industry is in, and there are quite a few interesting nuggets tucked within all those percentages. For starters, the sector still managed to grow 11.5% in Q3 2008 compared to a year prior, but that increase is the smallest since it began tracking. Of course, given the current economic climate, we'd say it's a win to see any number not in the negative. Moving on, we see Nokia maintaining its numero uno status with 42.4% market share, though it did recognize a rare decline in sales of 3% year-on-year; as for RIM, its BlackBerry phone sales increased an amazing 81.7% in Q3. We're also clued in to why Apple was rumored to be hacking its iPhone production some 40% in Q4, as the company has some two million units of inventory built up in the supply channel. Finally, we're told that "for the first time (meaning in this quarter), iPhone sales exceeded sales of Microsoft Windows Mobile devices worldwide and in North America," and beyond that, "open-source initiatives like Android and Symbian Foundation [are set to] challenge Windows Mobile's licensing model in the short-term." Need we really reiterate how badly WinMo 7 is needed? Engadget.

Mr Ballmer must be all sorts of happy :eek:

pATT (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=T" class="ticker" title="T"NYSE: T/a) is shedding 12,000 jobs, or 4 percent of its workforce, as it seeks to rein in costs in the face of the worsening economy. With most of the cuts occurring this month, the carrier expects to take a $600 million charge on severance payments and other related costs. ATT didn't identify what areas would be most affected by the layoffs, but it did say it would be staffing up in areas such as wireless, video and broadband, though it didn't specify any numerical targets. Back in April, ATT said it would a href="http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-att-to-reduce-workforce-by-15-percent-job-cuts-focused-on-management-po" title="cut 4,600 posts"cut 4,600 posts/a, mainly management positions. At the time, the San Antonio telco said it expected to hire back that same number over the course of the year as it expanded wireless, TV and broadband and shifted resources from its landline business. a href="http://www.att.com/gen/press-room?pid=4800cdvn=newsnewsarticleid=26374" title="Release"Release/a /p p -- bNBCU lays off 30 in ad sales/b: The weakening ad market has NBC Universal (a href="http://finance.paidcontent.org/paidcontent?Page=QUOTETicker=GE" class="ticker" title="GE"NYSE: GE/a) taking the cleaver to 30 ad sales positions, a href="http://adage.com/mediaworks/article?article_id=133004" title="AdAge reports"AdAge reports/a, citing unidentified sources. The layoffs are part of a a href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-nbc-universal-caling-for-500-million-budget-cuts-next-year-layoffs-at-t" title="$500 million cost savings plan"$500 million cost savings plan/a outlined by Jeff Zucker, NBCU president and CEO, in October. While other TV companies are expected to announce layoffs in the near future, NBCU actually had a fairly positive Q3, as profits rose at the GE unit by 10 percent, largely thanks to success on the cable side. The broadcast business continues to struggle, as ratings have fallen off 14 percent year-over-year, tying it for third place. /p pstrongRelated/strong/p ul class="related" lia href="http://www.paidcontent.org/entry/419-nbc-universal-caling-for-500-million-budget-cuts-next-year-layoffs-at-t" title="NBC Universal Calling For $500 Million Budget Cuts Next Year; Layoffs At Telemundo"NBC Universal Calling For $500 Million Budget Cuts Next Year; Layoffs At Telemundo/a/li lia href="http://www.moconews.net/entry/419-att-to-reduce-workforce-by-15-percent-job-cuts-focused-on-management-po" title="Update: ATT To Cut 4,600 Jobs, Then Hire Back The Same Number For Wireless Expansion"Update: ATT To Cut 4,600 Jobs, Then Hire Back The Same Number For Wireless Expansion/a/li /ul p!-- iMark Logic Digital Publishing Summit, Thursday November 6, Westin Times Square. Insight and perspective from Outsell, Gilbane, Simon Schuster, BusinessWeek.com, more. Evening cocktail reception. Cost is complimentary. a href="http://content.adbureau.net/accipiter/adclick/CID=000010cb0000000000000000/SITE=PC_US/AAMSZ=PREMB_NEWS/relocate=http://marklogicdps.eventbrite.com/"Register now!/a/i --/p pa href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?a=EF5Was"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~a/pcorg?i=EF5Was" border="0"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=mHK3O"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=mHK3O" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=nfMDO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=nfMDO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=xUPVo"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=xUPVo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=qncmO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=qncmO" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?a=sWQYO"img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~f/pcorg?i=sWQYO" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/pcorg/~4/474701657" height="1" width="1"/

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Gartner's latest and greatest analysis of the global smartphone industry is in, and there are quite a few interesting nuggets tucked within all those percentages. For starters, the sector still managed to grow 11.5% in Q3 2008 compared to a year prior, but that increase is the smallest since it began tracking. Of course, given the current economic climate, we'd say it's a win to see any number not in the negative. Moving on, we see Nokia maintaining its numero uno status with 42.4% market share, though it did recognize a rare decline in sales of 3% year-on-year; as for RIM, its BlackBerry phone sales increased an amazing 81.7% in Q3. We're also clued in to why Apple was rumored to be hacking its iPhone production some 40% in Q4, as the company has some two million units of inventory built up in the supply channel. Finally, we're told that "for the first time (meaning in this quarter), iPhone sales exceeded sales of Microsoft Windows Mobile devices worldwide and in North America," and beyond that, "open-source initiatives like Android and Symbian Foundation [are set to] challenge Windows Mobile's licensing model in the short-term." Need we really reiterate how badly WinMo 7 is needed?

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HELSINKI (Reuters) - Growth in the global smartphone market slowed to 11.5 percent in the third quarter year on year, the slowest rate of growth since it started tracking smartphone sales, research firm Gartner said on Thursday.div class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?a=hMmvMiKi"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?a=VdeXSJfP"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?i=VdeXSJfP" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?a=0iQ5CrzT"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/reuters/technologyNews?i=0iQ5CrzT" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/reuters/technologyNews/~4/lLjrwA_X6SY" height="1" width="1"/

h4But not as crap as 2001/h4 pWhen you are very sick and you are trying to find out what is wrong, you get a second opinion from another doctor - and so it is with the quarterly market statistics tracking server shipments and sales. Gartner usually comes first, and then IDC follows in quick succession with a slightly different set of public stats. Together, the Gartner and IDC figures give those of us on the outside of vendor walls a sense of how healthy or sick the server business is..../p

Research in Motion made an out-of-cycle announcement last night that its fiscal Q3 revenue would be 9% below Wall Street projections, citing economic conditions and product-related troubles.

pimg class="float_right" src="/~~/f?id=47dea3d014b9b9b00066cff5maxX=444maxY=192" border="0" alt="janetandarthurNYT.jpg" title="janetandarthurNYT.jpg" width="444" height="192" /The New York Times (NYT) is a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/cash-crunch-at-new-york-times-nyt-400-million-due-in-may"running on fumes/a. And one of the challenges the company faces in trying to avoid bankruptcy is that shutting-down money-losing operations actually costs money./p pFor example, shutting down some New York distribution operations, which the NYT announced it would do in early September, will cost about $50 million (disclosed in an a href="http://biz.yahoo.com/e/081202/nyt8-k_a.html"8K filing yesterday/a). The move will eliminate $30 million of losses annually, which is good, but the NYT can't afford to write $50 million checks these days./p p(To put the $50 million in context, the company only had $46 million of cash at the end of Q3 and it had to borrow more money to fund its operations in the quarter.)/p pBottom line, the closure expense, which will presumably hit the books in Q4 and Q1, will further weaken the company's balance sheet. The NYT says it is working with creditors to "manage" its debt obligations, but it has yet to explain how it plans to come up with the $400 million it needs to pony up in May./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"On September 8, 2008, the Company announced that, in January 2009, it will close City Suburban, its distribution organization that delivers The New York Times and other newspapers and magazines to newsstands and retail outlets in the New York metropolitan region. Going forward, The New York Times will be distributed to newsstand and retail outlets through a combination of third-party wholesalers and the Company's own drivers./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"Approximately strong530 full-time equivalent employees will be affected by the closure and the Company plans to provide severance packages to them/strong. On November 25, 2008, members of the drivers' union ratified an agreement reached between the Company and the union, including severance payments in connection with the closure./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"As a result, strongthe Company estimates that it will record total costs of $48 to $53 million in connection with the closure, consisting primarily of approximately $30 million for staff reduction costs and a $14 million charge related to above-market operating lease agreements./strong The remainder of the estimated costs are primarily related to transition costs, accelerated depreciation on certain assets and funding of a union pension plan. The strongmajority of these costs will be recorded by the end of the Company's 2008 fiscal year-end/strong, with the remainder recorded in the strongfirst quarter of 2009/strong. In addition, the Company is currently negotiating to sell a City Suburban location that it owns. The timing of the sale is not currently known./p p style="padding-left: 30px;"The Company expects the closure of City Suburban to strongimprove the operating results of The New York Times Media Group by approximately $30 million on an annual basis/strong. This is a result of an estimated decrease in costs of approximately $120 million to operate City Suburban, offset in part by an estimated decrease in revenue of approximately $90 million. The revenue decrease is expected to be in other revenues (from the elimination of delivering third-party publications) and in circulation revenue (from the sale of The New York Times to wholesale distributors rather than retailers)./p pstrongSee Also:/strongbr /a href="../../2008/11/cash-crunch-at-new-york-times-nyt-400-million-due-in-may"New York Times Cash Crunch: $400 Million Due In May/abr /a href="http://www.alleyinsider.com/2008/11/new-york-times-cash-crunch-2-negative-net-worth"NYT Cash Crunch 2: The Closer You Look, The Worse It Gets/abr /a href="../../2008/10/new-york-times-nyt-running-on-fumes"New York Times Running On Fumes/abr /a href="../../2008/10/how-the-new-york-times-nyt-can-save-itself"How The New York Times Can Save Itself/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fvLx4qF51_sGhFmyiY1zE46yYYc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/fvLx4qF51_sGhFmyiY1zE46yYYc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=HfeAR4XJ"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=HfeAR4XJ" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=BBRA1ijx"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=52" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=CaPgQVyG"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=80" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=WiIDPUfo"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?i=WiIDPUfo" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=YU235fDR"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=131" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=09UTPRaL"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=336" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=lIllVoag"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=41" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?a=52tjCG4J"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider?d=50" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/typepad/alleyinsider/silicon_alley_insider/~4/Jq7SFtrWy1A" height="1" width="1"/

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Atari is banking on Tetsuya Mizuguchi's next project, a music game with the working title "QJ," to reestablish the celebrated developer at the top of his, uh, game -- or to strike a chord with Wii owners, at least. The publisher announced today that it will bring Q Entertainment's QJ to Wii, but omitted further details. Marching behind a string of Lumines sequels, Mizuguchi has stumbled offbeat with his last several experiments, including Ninety-Nine Nights, Gunpey and Every Extend Extra Extreme. But QJ's music foundation suggests that Mizuguchi could be drumming up renewed inspiration from his own cult classic, Space Channel 5.

Additionally, Atari announced the Q3 ("Cubed") compilation disc for Xbox 360, which will include Mizuguchi's XBLA games: Every Extend Extra Extreme, Lumines Live and Rez HD, along with all released DLC. The collection has been given a tentative price of €30 (roughly $40) and has yet to be dated for release.

Atari announces Mizuguchi's 'QJ' for Wii, 'Q3' compilation originally appeared on Joystiq on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:58:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

 

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pFiled under: a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/wii/" rel="tag"Nintendo Wii/a, a href="http://www.joystiq.com/category/xbox360/" rel="tag"Microsoft Xbox 360/a/pdiv align="center"a href="http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=323033"img vspace="4" hspace="0" border="0" src="http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2008/12/tetsuya.mizuguchu.stiq.tee.jpg" alt="" //a/div Atari is banking on Tetsuya Mizuguchi's next project, a music game with the working title "emQJ/em," to reestablish the celebrated developer at the top of his, uh, emgame /em-- or to strike a chord with Wii owners, at least. The publisher announced today that it will bring Q Entertainment's emQJ/em to Wii, but omitted further details. Marching behind a string of a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/lumines/"emLumines/em/a sequels, Mizuguchi has stumbled emoffbeat/em with his last several experiments, including emNinety-Nine Nights, Gunpey/em and emEvery Extend Extra Extreme./em But emQJ's/em music foundation suggests that a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/mizuguchi/"Mizuguchi/a could be drumming up renewed inspiration from his own cult classic, emSpace Channel 5./embr / br /Additionally, Atari announced the emQsup3/sup/em ("Cubed") compilation disc for Xbox 360, which will include Mizuguchi's a href="http://www.joystiq.com/tag/xbla/"XBLA /agames: emEvery Extend Extra Extreme, Lumines Live/em and emRez HD,/em along with all released DLC. The collection has been given a tentative price of euro;30 (roughly $40) and has yet to be dated for release.p style="padding:5px;background:#ddd;border:1px solid #ccc;clear:both;"a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/atari-announces-mizuguchis-qj-for-wii-q3-comp/"Atari announces Mizuguchi's 'QJ' for Wii, 'Q3' compilation/a originally appeared on a href="http://www.joystiq.com"Joystiq/a on Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:58:00 EST. Please see our a href="http://www.weblogsinc.com/feed-terms/"terms for use of feeds/a./pp style="clear: both; padding: 8px 0 0 0; height: 2px; font-size: 1px; border: 0; margin: 0; padding: 0;"nbsp;/ppa href=http://www.eurogamer.net/article.php?article_id=323033Read/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/atari-announces-mizuguchis-qj-for-wii-q3-comp/" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent link to this entry"Permalink/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/forward/1388876/" title="Send this entry to a friend via email"Email this/anbsp;|nbsp;a href="http://www.joystiq.com/2008/12/02/atari-announces-mizuguchis-qj-for-wii-q3-comp/#comments" title="View reader comments on this entry"Comments/a/p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/pGjDNRWfeDLY_iazRxa2gb6go_w/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~at/pGjDNRWfeDLY_iazRxa2gb6go_w/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pdiv class="feedflare" a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=PtDeET4t"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=PtDeET4t" border="0"/img/a a href="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?a=VhymTva9"img src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~f/weblogsinc/joystiq?i=VhymTva9" border="0"/img/a /divimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/weblogsinc/joystiq/~4/bSnV_A1TezQ" height="1" width="1"/

C'est toujours au cours de son évènement presse que Atari nous a appris l'arrivée prochaine d'un pack tout à la gloire du studio Q Entertainment. Baptisé Q3 (prononcez Cubed), ce coffret intégrera les trois jeux du développeur actuellement...