The growth of its mobile business hasn't been enough to offset its troubles on the desktop.
The company saw favorable growth in its mobile business in particular while landline services continued declining.
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And two, she notes that the mobile business has been on the weak side.
These shrunken mobile business apps typically offer a weak experience that fails to impress users.
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In 2010, The9 established its Mobile Business Unit and to focus on mobile internet.
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Samsung's Galaxy Tab is the electronic makers' big push in the mobile business for the holiday season.
Green Dot believes that these patents will be important strategic assets as it pursues its mobile business opportunities.
"We think it's a complete computer on a chip, " says Mike Rayfield, general manager of Nvidia's mobile business.
Whatever the reasons, the decision shows how much Google values its mobile business.
Rudi Lamprecht, the head of Siemens' mobile business, insists that licensing technology from a rival is no big deal.
Perhaps the company was simply waiting for its mobile business to grow large enough to justify a trade booth.
For years, graphics processor specialist Nvidia promised it was going to get a big piece of the mobile business.
Asus is also trying to augment its mobile business, especially in the U.S., through navigation services and new management.
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And if it wants to have a big mobile business it should take a shot at making its own handset.
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"RIM today is not really on our radar, " says Andrew Stein, director of mobile business development for PopCap Games Inc.
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Agents can also share their Mobile Business Cards wirelessly with Near Field Communication (NFC) using Vizibility's plastic Mobile Wallet Card.
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"We've been preparing the watch product for so long, " Lee Young Hee, senior vice president of Samsung's mobile business, said earlier this year.
Later today Google, which recently joined the mobile business with its acquisition of Motorola Mobility, will report its third quarter earnings.
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It plans to build lots of its own apps (50 by the end of this year) via the Mobile Business Unit under Sybase.
So it is not in the social network business, it is not in telecoms or enterprise software, but believes it is a mobile business.
Today, IT can purchase cloud-based enterprise mobile device and app management, application development platforms and mobile business applications such as field service and CRM.
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Big Blue is this week hosting a worldwide customer meeting in Orlando, at which it will show its latest social software for mobile business.
The dearth of serious mobile business apps has been a potent argument by skeptics who question the usefulness of smartphones and tablets in business.
This one lets enterprises create their mobile business apps once, and run them on multiple smartphones and tablets with little to no rewriting required.
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Zeck is chief technologist at Antenna Software, which runs a platform that businesses like Coca-Cola and Xerox use to create mobile business applications.
The company makes money primarily from its mobile business as well as value added services like SMS, MMS, ringtones and mobile Internet in particular.
Vizibility's popular Mobile Business Card is a personalized mobile microsite which is used to package and share a professional's contact information and web presence.
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The deal gives the company something that has been in seriously short supply in the mobile business: new spectrum to expand wireless data service.
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At the same time, we are continuing to invest in our mobile business where we have one of the strongest positions in the industry.
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