Krikorian served on the board of Amazon.com Inc. and also co-founded the Philips Mobile Computing Group where he co-led the team that created the award-winning Velo 1 handheld PC running Windows CE.

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Mr Kleisterlee would earn a cheer from investors if he decided to tackle Philips's loss-making mobile-phone arm.

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Windows Phone 7 and Android mobile platforms as well as through devices from Vizio, SanDisk, HP, Sonos and Philips.

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