Published 09 09 07 in The Independent on Sunday
Nokia: The most global company there is
The mobile phone giant knows it must move with the times, but there are some things about itself it can’t change, says Stephen Pritchard
Published: 09 September 2007
Nokia’s chief executive Olli-Pekka Kallasvuo might have been expected to spend his first year in office building bridges.
His predecessor, Jorma Ollila, had, after all, had a very public disagreement with Vodafone’s chief executive, Arun Sarin, at the 2004 3GSM trade show. There, the world’s largest handset maker and the world’s largest mobile phone group used keynote speeches to blame each other for the slow roll-out of third generation mobiles. (Click here to read the full article.)
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This year’s IFA show in Berlin was full of large TVs. Each consumer electronics vendor was competing to show the largest or shiniest set. A few, though, were as interested in unveiling the greenest.
Philips, for example, were showing their new Aurea screens (the ad is showing on the link above now). But as interesting was the assertion by consumer electronics head Rudy Provoost that today’s TVs use just one ninth of the standby power they did a generation ago. (For a fuller report, see this story in ITPro.)
Japanese LCD giant Sharp, though, had a very different twist on the large TV=large power bill challenge. The company is building a new factory that will make both LCD TV panels and TFT-based solar panels on one site. Sharp expects the plant, when it comes online in three to four years’ time, to double the worldwide output of TFT solar panels. Now that is neat.
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