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For the record 26 September
Thursday, September 26 2002
by Sylvia Leatham


Mobile phone sales may rise 15 pc next year, says Nokia US head | Recording
artists launch anti-piracy ad campaign

Industrywide mobile phone sales may rise as much as 15 percent next year as users
upgrade to newer handsets, according to Kari-Pekka Wilska, head of Nokia's
US business. Speaking at an investor conference in San Francisco, Wilska also
predicted that industry sales of handsets would reach 400 million this year,
compared with 380 million last year. Nokia shares rose more than 6 percent after
Wilska's pronouncements, up EUR0.84 to EUR14 on the Helsinki Stock Exchange.
However, a spokesperson for Nokia later said Wilska's figures were not official
estimates and had been taken out of context.





Meanwhile, Nokia unveiled its first 3G colour-screen mobile phone on
Thursday, but it will not be available to consumers until next year. The Nokia
6650 has a built-in camera and a large colour screen and will work on both the
current GSM networks and the next-generation WCDMA systems.





The company that operates the German stock exchange is planning to abolish its
tech-laden high-growth Neuer Markt and small-cap SMAX market by the end of
next year. Deutsche Boerse intends to replace the two markets with a new market
called Prime Standard.





Data centre company Interxion, which recently raised EUR20 million in
venture capital, said on Thursday that Graham Wade, currently Interxion UK's
managing director, will also become its managing director in Ireland. Current
Interxion Ireland managing director, Tom Cahill, and a small but unspecified
number of Irish workers, will depart the company as a result of the
restructuring, a spokesperson for Interxion UK said.





Parthus Technologies and QinetiQ have signed a collaborative
licensing agreement for Parthus' NavStream 3000 GPS location platform. NavStream
3000 can determine the exact location of an individual, vehicle or a device in
almost any circumstance, in both indoor and outdoor situations. QinetiQ plans to
integrate the NavStream 3000 with other technologies and then market the
solutions as part of its telematics and telecommunications programmes.





Forbes Magazine has recognised IONA Technologies as one of the "Best of
the Web" in terms of Web services. The listing, which appears in the 7 October
issue of the business magazine, details the most promising companies that are
currently delivering Web technologies. The magazine also features a profile of
IONA customer AT&T as a Web services success story.





Bray-based Data Edge has announced a re-seller agreement with UK-based
Mutiny, a specialist in network monitoring solutions. Mutiny, together with
hardware provider Toshiba, has produced a "plug and ping" network and systems
monitoring appliance aimed at small and medium-sized businesses. The Mutiny alert
and monitoring software comes pre-installed on Toshiba's Magnia SG20 or Z310
compact server appliances.  





Two providers of e-mail security solutions have been recognized with Frost &
Sullivan awards. Trend Micro was given the Market Engineering Customer
Development Award in recognition of its performance in the European anti-virus
software market. Meanwhile, Network Associates was awarded the Market
Engineering Customer Brand Recognition Award, with flagship brand McAfee
receiving acknowledgment for exceptional brand performance in the security
market.





HP has announced the winners of its first European New Ventures
competition. The aim of the competition was to reward 6-30 month-old start-ups
that are already in business in the science and technology sectors with HP
equipment worth over EUR50,000. The winners were Photobiotics, a spin-out from
Imperial College London; Infinitesima Ltd, a spin-out from the University of
Bristol; and SCYTL Online World Security, from the Universitat Politecnica de
Catalunya in Spain.

 

A coalition of recording artists and music labels is launching an
advertising campaign in the US aimed at discouraging people from the illegal
sharing of music files. Print, radio and TV ads will feature dozens of major
recording stars, including Madonna and P Diddy, who compare file swapping with
stealing. In one of the ads, Britney Spears asks "Would you go into a CD store
and steal a CD? It's the same thing -- people going into the computers and
logging on and stealing our music."