Another stock he likes is Ulticom, which sells switching software to Ericsson, Siemens and Comverse Technology.
The company will only say that there was a spike in demand from a particular company in Sweden, an obvious reference to Ericsson, which as it happens also posted strong results on Wednesday.
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Or in a cell phone, for that matter, which is one of the reasons that major cell phone makers from Nokia to Ericsson recently decided to support another stripped-down operating system--this one from London-based Psion--as a standard for wireless computing.
Terms call for Unwired Planet to compensate Ericsson with certain ongoing rights in future revenues generated from the enlarged patent portfolio.
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Micromax will have to pay Ericsson royalty of between 1.25% and 2% of sales for each unit of its cellphone models sold.
"Micromax is committed to negotiating a FRAND license with Ericsson as Ericsson has undertaken to providing a Fair Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory (FRAND) license to Micromax, " the Indian company said in a statement.
It has overtaken Ericsson to become the largest telecommunications equipment manufacturer in the world.
And it was perhaps unrealistic for Sony Ericsson to try to float at arm's length from its parents.
All the same, the state-run corporation has contracted out the Swedish telecommunications firm Ericsson to upgrade the system.
While many have already started to call the expected device a Sony PlayStation phone, the handset is likely to carry Sony Ericsson's Xper ia brand, another person familiar with the matter said.
As we said, there's plenty more juicy tidbits to digest over at Esato -- but even with what we've presented here, it's safe to say Sony Ericsson's shaping up for a killer '07.
While some argued that Mahadevan may have an innate ability to memorize, Ericsson and colleagues found in their experiments with Mahadevan that he learned his unusual methods for memorizing numerical patterns after a thousand hours of practice.
To boot, Sony Ericsson's Xperia Play is just around the bend, and if Amazon's able to launch its own app store, why not push out a game-centric one from a name that people already know and trust?
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Among the companies that fit this bill are EADS, with 75% of its revenue in dollars and only 28% of its costs in the greenback LVMH (50% dollar revenue to 33% dollar costs), Siemens (40% dollar revenue to 35% dollar costs), Ericsson (43% dollar revenue to 32% dollar costs), BMW (30% dollar revenue to 205 dollar costs), Volkswagen (20% dollar revenue to 12% dollar costs), Porsche (35% dollar revenue to 0% dollar costs), SAP (35% to 30%) and Rolls-Royce (48% dollar revenue to 26% dollar costs).
One involves the software technology Ericsson uses to translate speech into digital information and back again.
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Twenty years ago, Dr Ericsson tried to prove it by training some ordinary laboratory volunteers up to prodigy-level performance in a number-memory task.
"As expected, the first quarter of this year has been extremely challenging for Sony Ericsson due to continued weak global demand, " the firm said.
While manufacturers of fixed-line phones were trying to come to grips with cellular technology, Nokia and Ericsson came out of almost nowhere to become, within a decade, globe-straddling corporations.
For example, Ericsson had to agree to be paid by the minute rather than for selling and installing the equipment, and rival mobile companies to rent their towers rather than own them outright.
The carrier awarded contracts for the planned upgrade to Alcatel-Lucent (ALU), Ericsson (ERIC) and Samsung to implement the planned upgrades.
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As Nokia and Ericsson get ready to report earnings, both hope frozen mobile-phone sales will thaw.
Swedish companies like Ericsson have reacted to high taxes by threatening to move abroad.
However, there are also reports that mobile phone maker Ericsson is planning to cut anything upwards of 6, 000 jobs.
Sony Ericsson is rumored to be working on a PlayStation Phone, which Engadget claims to have a leaked photo of.
Ericsson has tried to turn around its mobile-handset business for four years.
Sony Ericsson has struggled to break even at triple that ASP level.
Oh boy oh boy does Sony Ericsson know how to get a nice lookin' LCD in there, even despite the occasionally lower resolutions.
"The handset makers are taking the brunt of it, " said Global Insight telecoms analyst Emeka Obiodu, referring to the likes of Sony Ericsson, Nokia, and Samsung.
Even Amazon, an online shopping giant, may feel the urge to splash out and buy, perhaps, Sony-Ericsson, which like Motorola seems too small to make it on its own.
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He used mnemonics relating to the sounds of numbers as well as the shapes or meanings of particular digits and images, according to a 2009 study by Ericsson and colleagues.
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