China's No-Name Giants Move to Build a Brand

Huawei maybe the best company many Americans and Europeans have never heard of, and that's a big problem for China, according to a recent report in Newsweek entitled Generic Giants. With revenue of more than $18 billion in 2008, soon it will overtake Nokia Siemens as the world's second-largest maker of telecom hardware, after Ericsson.

The challenge for many Chinese companies as they go global is to build an attractive brand image that motivates consumers to pay premium prices for their products. Headquarters in booming Shenzhen, the telecommunications equipment-maker with a hard to pronounce name made BusinessWeek's latest list of the world's 10 “most influential” companies, alongside Apple, Wal-Mart, Toyota, and Google. Yet Huawei is by far the least internationally recognizable name on the list.

The Chinese government is calling on local companies to build up their brands. According to Newsweek, Premier Wen Jiabao in March called for China to create companies that can innovate and churn out “brand-name export products”—meaning companies with reputations for quality, innovation, and service so strong that customers are willing to pay a premium for their products.

And Huawei is not the only company trying to change its business strategy. In March, Shandong-based manufacturer Haier announced that it was leaving direct manufacturing and concentrating on building the company's brand and service network. Despite Haier's fame as a manufacturer, the move was not unexpected, said Kent Kedl, general manager of Technomic Asia, a market strategy consultancy.

“It's a very natural progression. I don't think that's a surprise… that's the way all brands need to go.” Kedl was quoted in the China Economic Review (CER) as saying. “They start off with the manufacturing

Olikohan se laskurekyyli sitten siinä?

Melkoisen vahvaa menoa pörssissä tänään jokapuolella. Koko salkku vihertää ja on enää n. puoli prosenttia pakkasella viime kuun lopulta. Mikä sai pörssit nousuun? Eilinen palvelu-ISM lämmittää edelleen, Australian keskuspankki avasi koronnostopelin ekana keskuspankkina, mikä kertoo siitä että Australiassa kriisi alkaa olla ohi ja paluu arkeen on menossa. Kun EKP ja FED tekevät saman joskus ensi vuonna saattaa sillä olla samanlainen vaikutus, vaikkakin yleensä koronnostot eivät ole hyvä asia osakesijoittajalle.

Öljy on taas vahvistumassa mutta dollari heikentymässä.Öljyn nousu tietää hyvää RNE (>+3%) ja EWZ ETF:lle (vajaa +2%). Ja itseasiassa salkun ETF:t ovat kokonaisuutena toista prosenttia plussalla viime kuun lopulta eli pärjäävät paremmin kuin salkkuni Suomi-laput.

Nokiaa koskien tuli tänään parikin mielenkiintoista uutista. Microsoftin Windows mobile 6.5 luurit tulevat vihdoin markkinoille. Applen, Symbianin ja RIMMin puristuksissa Microsoft on menettänyt markkinaosuuttaan älyluureissa pahanlaisesti ja 2Q:lla pyöri enää jossain 9% nurkilla, joki toki on selvästi parempi kuin paljon puhutulla Googlen Androidilla. Nyt jos suunta ei Windows Mobile 6.5:lla käänny lienee Mikin parempi viheltää peli poikki ja keskittyä vaikkapa tuomaan sovelluksia muiden alustoille tai kehittämään cloud-sovelluksia. Tähän suuntaan se on osin jo menossa, sillä sehän alkaa Nokian kanssa tehdyn sopimuksen mukaan tarjota office ohjelmiaan Symbian alustalla. Ballmerin mukaan Windows Mobile 7 tulee ulos 4Q 2010:llä eli n. vuoden päästä.

USAssa iso operaattori AT&T näyttää lähestyvän Nokiaa ja Symbiania. Se aikoo mm. alkaa ensi kuusta lähtien tukea Nokian Ovi Storea ja uusia luureja Nokialta on päässyt jakeluun. AT&T alkaa myös tukea Opera-selainta ja “täyttä webbikokemusta” luureillaan. AT&T ei kuitenkaan aio tukea Nokian 3G Booklettia.

Nokia N97 Mini tulee UK:ssa myyntiin jo 23.10. Tuo on varmasti yksi tärkeimmistä Nokian luureista loppuvuonna ja ensi vuoden alussa. Ehtii kehrätä mukavan myynnin jo 4Q:n aikanakin. Samoin E72 on Pohjois-Amerikassa jo ennakkotilauksissa.

Ai niin ja Samsungilta tuli ennakkotietoja 3Q tuloksesta. Hyvin on mennyt sillä voitto tuplaantui viime vuotisesta 3.7 miljardiin dollariin. Sirut ja taulutelkkarit ovat käyneet kaupaksi ja hyvää hintaan. Mutta muutama analyytikko arvelee että Sampan voitot ovat nyt tapissa ja 4Q:lla marginaalit laskevat kiristyvän kilpailun takia mm. taulutelkkareissa ja markkinointikustannusten nousua takia: “Samsung seems to have reached a peak,” said Shinhan Investment analyst Sung Hye-jin. “Earnings will likely fall in the fourth quarter as LCD prices have turned lower, the handset division will spend more on marketing as usual, and its rivals have quickly caught up in the LED TV sector“. Kännyköistä Samppa ei puhunut mitään. Samsungin kurssi on noussut tänä vuonna jo 67% eli paljon paremmin on mennyt kuin Nokialla.

Listas | 10 celulares interessantes com preço bom

Estes celulares são bem interessantes, e não custam uma fortuna exorbitante. Bom para aqueles que querem trocar de celular mas não tem grana pra um iPhone ainda…

1º. Motorola W231
2º. Sony Ericsson W200
3º. Motorola W175
4º. Venko Talento
5º. Samsung C260
6º. Nokia 2630
7º. Alcatel OT-E259
8º. LG Chocolight MG280
9º. Sony Ericsson K200i
10º. Sony Ericsson T303

OBS.: a imagem deste anúncio é meramente ilustrativa (ainda mais com essa banda ai).

Four questions about the Microsoft-Nokia alliance

The Microsoft-Nokia alliance turned out to be a lot more interesting than the pre-announcement rumors made it out to be. Rather than just a bundling deal for mobile Office, the press release says they’ll also be co-developing “a range of new user experiences” for Nokia phones, aimed at enterprises. Those will include mobile Office, enterprise IM and conferencing, access to portals built on SharePoint, and device management.

Of those items, the IM and conferencing ideas sound the most promising to me. Office, as I explained in my last post, is not much of a purchase-driver on mobile phones. And I think Microsoft would have needed to provide Nokia compatibility in its mobile portal and device management products anyway.

I understand the logic behind the alliance. Nokia has never been able to get much traction for its e-series business phones, and Microsoft hasn’t been able to kick RIM out of enterprise. So if they get together, maybe they can make progress. But it’s easy to make a sweeping corporate alliance announcement, and very hard to make it actually work, especially when the partners are as big and high-ego as Microsoft and Nokia. This alliance will live or die based on execution, and on a lot of details that we don’t know about yet.

Here are four questions I’d love to see answered:

What specifically are those “new user experiences”?

If Nokia and Microsoft can come up with some truly useful functionality that RIM can’t copy, they might be able to win share. But the emphasis in the press release on enterprise mobility worries me. The core users for RIM are communication-hungry professionals. If you want to eat away at RIM’s base, you need to excite those communicator users, and I’m not sure if either company has the right ideas to do that. As Microsoft has already proven, pleasing IT managers won’t drive a ton of mobile phone purchases.

Will Microsoft really follow through?

Microsoft has been hinting for the last decade that it was were willing to decouple mobile Office from the operating system, but they never had the courage to follow through. Now they have announced something that sounds pretty definitive, but the real test will be whether they put their best engineers on the Nokia products. If Microsoft assigns its C players to the alliance, or tries to make its Nokia products inferior to their Windows Mobile versions, the alliance won’t go anywhere interesting.

What does this do to Microsoft’s relationships with other handset companies?

Imagine for a moment that you are the CEO of Samsung. Actually, imagine that for several moments. You aren’t exclusive with Microsoft, but you’ve done a lot of phones with Windows Mobile on them. Now all of a sudden Microsoft makes a deal with a company that you think of as the Antichrist.

How do you feel about that?

I can tell you that Samsung is not the most trusting and nurturing company to do business with even in the best of times. So I think you make two phone calls. The first is to Steve Ballmer, asking very pointedly if you can get the same software as Nokia, on the same terms, at the same time. If you don’t like the answer to that question, your next call is to Google, regarding increasing your range of Android phones.

Maybe the reality is that Microsoft has given up on Windows Mobile and doesn’t care what Samsung does. But that itself would be interesting news.

I would love to know how those phone calls went today.

What does RIM do about this?

It has been putting a lot of effort into Apple-competitive features like multimedia and a software store. Does it have enough bandwidth to also fight Nokia-Microsoft? What happens to its core business if Microsoft and Nokia do come up with some cool functions that RIM doesn’t have? Are there any partners that could be a counterweight to Microsoft and Nokia? If I’m working at RIM, I start to think about alliances with companies like Oracle and SAP. And I wonder if Google is interested in doing some enterprise work together.

RITA DOMINIC LANDS $1,000,000 DEAL WITH NOKIA.

RITA DOMINIC

While Genevieve Nnaji celebrates her feature on Oprah Winfrey,Gidi born actress,Rita dominic who was recently given the sum of Fifty Million Naira(50,000,000)  to be one of GLO’s ambassadors hit jackpot once again.

Rita Dominic closed a deal of $1,000,000(notice its DOLLARS not NAIRA) with Nokia to be  ‘Africas Face of Nokia’.The contract with Nokia  is for 6 months and it is to promote Nokia’s new product, the N97,

We at GidiNoize shall start acting too,so we can get a Million dollar deal..lol

Congratulations Rita Dominic!!!

Nokia E 72 vs Nokia N 900

I know a lot of people who are confused, tearing their head off and waiting for some new software to make a devine selection for them. Well, I am talking about people who are confused about their next phone. It is a death match between Nokia E 72 vs Nokia N 900. As for me, I know my which one of these is going to be my next phone (grin)…

Nokia E 72 and Nokia N 900 are two divices which look like they are just out of area 51’s production section – Very futuristic and extemely competeive..From an “Outside” view at this phone, they have similar features. Both of these come with a 5 MP camera, a 600 MHZ processor, 3.5G (10.2Mbps HSDPA, 2Mbps HSUPA), amazing battery life, etc. When you “Pop the hood” and take a peek under it, it is a complete different story.

Nokia E72: This is a great device with an amazing performace. It runs on an ARM 11, 600 MHz processor backed by a 128MB RAM and 512 MB ROM. Nokia E 72 boasts about a battery which can provide 20 days of stand-by time and 12.5 hours of talk time..For all those people who travel a lot, it comes with Global Roaming and Assisted GPS service. The camera is not Carl Zeiss but can take pictures at 5 megapixel and record video at 15 frames per second, quater visual graphic array(QVGA). Video Playback protocols are MPEG4, 3GPP, Realvideo 7, 8, 9 and 10,H.263 and Flash Videos. Talking about data-trasfer on this phone, it is mind boggling. GPRS/EDGE/UMTS/HSDPA 1.8 Mbit/s/HSDPA 3.6 Mbit/s/HSDPA 7.2 Mbit/s/HSDPA 10.2 Mbit/s/HSUPA/HSUPA 2.0 Mbit/s with a series 60 Complete HTML supported browser.

Nokia N 900: This is another work of art that anyone would want to get their hands on. This horse is powered by an TI OMAP 3430: ARM Cortex-A8 600 MHz processor with a 256 MB RAM / 768 MB ROM. This device supports Global Roaming like Nokia E 72. Nokia N900 comes with a Carl Zeiss lens with 5 megapixel camera and records at 25 frames per second – at 828×480 VGA display. I know I have not mentioned anything about the OS.. I thought I would save the best for the last but I just can’t hold on to it. N900 runs on the newly introduced Maemo OS. Maemo was developed on a Linux platform and is expected to be an excellent touch-screen device. N900’s data transfer is same as the one on Nokia E72. Finally, it is very evident that Nokia N900 is going to be the winner here but I think I am going to stay with Nokia E 72. The reason being, Symbian is Nokia’s original OS. None of us are aware of the issues/bugs if any on this OS. I am not ready to gamble here pople. The horses under the hood are pretty much the same. Now, Comparing the price of these two devices, N72 being $400 and N900 being $740, I think I would stick with Nokia E 72 till things are fixed on Nokia N 900.

netbook ou smartphone?

Bem, como primeiro post lanço essa questão no ar. Mercados convergentes, produtos diferentes, com características diferentes que fazem praticamente a mesma coisa. Então o que difere? Praticamente tudo. O mercado de netbooks já não é mais o de alguns anos atrás, lembram-se do OLPC (One Laptop per Child) ? Grandes empresas entraram no mercado, como Sony e sua franquia Vaio, HP, LG e as nacionais como a Positivo entre outras estão oferecendo hoje netbooks com HD de 120, 160 e até mais giga de espaço de disco rígido, modem 3g embutido, memória de 2giga, processador de 1,6GHz e uma série de outras implementações que não se viam nas duas gerações anteriores. Em contrapartida os smartphones estão ficando cada vez mais smarts, inteligentes, porém caros, mais caros até que o preço de um notebook normal. Pretendo ainda falar mais extensamente sobre marcas sistemas, modelos de celulares, por enquanto irei me ater aos mais “famosos”.

Ter um netbook significa praticidade pra levar pra faculdade, pode-se gravar a aula, navegar na internet usando um modem 3g embutido em modelos como os mais recentes, como o Mobo 2055 e uma série de outros recursos, como o nome já diz, trata-se de num hardware voltado pra rodar aplicativos de internet, como um brownser (internet explorer, firefox), cliente de email, messenger, gtalk, e outros de trabalho também, há programadores que incluvise utilizam seu netbook para programar. De fato é um notebook de menor porte, com menos recursos como por exemplo a falta de um dvd player o que acaba fazendo a festa das vendas casadas com os dvd´s externos com saída USB. Embora essa ainda não superada limitação, os netbooks estão ficando cada vez mais potentes e competitivos no mercado, sendo inclusive até mais caros que alguns notebooks, rodam sistema operacional Windows XP, por vezes Linux.

Os smartphones estão em um ritmo acelerado de vendas, e os mais famosos sem sombra de dúvidas são os IPhone 3gs e os modelos da Nokia, embora os HTC sejam fantásticos ainda são muito caros por aqui. Hoje, ter um IPhone 3gs (s de speed) significa ter um computador no seu bolso, ele faz muito do que se espera de um pc normal faz, embora não tenha um teclado físico qwert, sua navegação através do brownser safari é ótima, fora vários outros aplicativos, a tela capacitiva é a melhor do momento. Telas touchscreen podem ser capacitivas ou resistivas a diferença é que a primeira (mais nova) suporta mais de um toque simultaneo na tela, e a outra apenas um. Até mesmo o N900 da Nokia que ainda está saindo do forno que acredito ser o único páreo de verdade para o IPhone 3gs possui tela resistiva.

Antes de comprar, pense bastante e pesquise bastante também, hoje em dia, a maior parte dos estados possuem cobertura 3G, o que oferece uma melhor qualidade, velocidade na hora de navegar na internet. Mas as novidades não ficam por aí, algo que não é divulgado é que pode-se utilizar dessa banda larga móvel para falar atravez da internet e assim economizar nos gastos com o telefone, sobretudo se você liga muito para outros estados, operadoras, etc…chama-se VoIP – voz sobre ip /voice over ip. Os telefones da série N e E da Nokia possuem cliente voip nativo (protocolo sip) assim é possível utilizar os serviços da vono (por exemplo) e falar gratuitamente de vono para vono utilizando dois telefones Nokia E71. Mas tome cuidado, é preciso pesquisar bastante antes de comprar um telefone, devido as frequências existem 3 modelos do E71 no mercado, o E71-1, E71-2  e o E71-3. Para verificar é preciso retirar a bateria e ver de qual modelo se trata pois as operadoras operam em diferentes frequências no 3g. Por exemplo, uma frequencia de 900/2100 umts (hsdpa/wcdma) vai beneficiar a operadora vivo, enquanto que 850/2100 a claro.

Telefones que não possuem o cliente SIP (VoIP) Nativo, podem se utilizar de aplicativos no mercado, como o fring e o nimbuzz que além de fazerem um ótimo trabalho nessa parte, ainda possuem suporte a vários outros protocolos como msn, gtalk, aim talk, etc…

Há hoje telefones que se diversificaram, foi criada a franquia XpressMusic com o carro chefe o Nokia 5800 XM, a tanto tempo esperado e clamado como Nokia Tube, ou IPhone Killer…mas não há como comparar smartphones com propósitos diferentes e a tentativa da Nokia nesse sentido foi frustrada, se é que foi essa a intenção também. Celulares voltados pra música, para o público executivo que usa muito o teclado qwert físico e outros para o entrenimento, como fotos, câmera digital, etc…

Eu chego a conclusão hoje que, se você quer um telefone que caiba no seu bolso (dimensões) e que navegue na internet, tenha GPS, camera digital, entre várias outras utilidades, não tenha dúvidas, agora é hora de escolher qual. Se você quer um notebook que possui tamanho reduzido para levar pra vários lugares, atender cliente, estágio, faculdade, navegar na internet e também fazer ligações VoIP utilizando-se do seu modem 3g e dos aplicativos disponibilizados para Windows, Linux, como o ventrilo, teamspeak e asterisk, vá de um netbook.

A longo prazo, creio que todos terão ambos, o netbook na mochila e o smartphone no bolso.