ARABIC BLACBERRY In October 2007‚ the launch of the first Arabic Blackberry was announced in the United Arab Emirates. The device had Arabic language input and an Arabic interface. Up until this point‚ the Blackberry was restricted to US and European use. The new initiative to bring the Blackberry to the Middle East and Africa had begun. The UAE’s mobile phone provider telco Etisalat collaborated with the creators of the Blackberry‚ RIM (Research InMotion)‚ to create the Arabic version of the e-mail
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Case study: MTN Introduction: The resource-based view of strategy According to Segal-Horn (2004 p 163) the Resource-Based View (RBV): “ ... places the firm rather than the industry at the centre of strategy formulation ... It has an internal resource focus rather than an external industry or market focus for strategic thinking.“ Why RBV? Rumelt’s research (Unit 3 Section 2 pp 8-9)‚ although contested‚ showed that the industry environment accounted for a very small percentage of the
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PESTEL analysis of BlackBerry RESEARCH IN MOTION LIMITED-BLACKBERRY Research in motion limited was founded in the year 1984 by Mr. Michael Lazaridis‚ the company’s President and Co-Chief Executive Officer‚ and Mr. Douglas Fregin (RIM-2009). The company then grew in to one of the leading designer and manufacturer of wireless solutions‚ the company product portfolios include the blackberry wireless solution and other software and hardware solutions. The major markets of the company include North
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now has offices in North America‚ Europe and Asia Pacific. BlackBerry is a line of wireless handheld devices that was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager. In 2002‚ BlackBerry was released‚ which supports push e-mail‚ mobile telephone‚ text messaging‚ internet faxing‚ web browsing and other wireless information services. It delivers information over the wireless data networks of mobile phone service companies. BlackBerry holds the world ’s second highest market share in the smart phone platform
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from the resource-based view the different strategic moves that this company has implemented in order to strengthen its handsets business unit and the implications that would entail the acquisition of Nokia‚ if it was to materialize. The core business of Huawei during its first 18 years of existence was offering network technologies and solutions‚ also providing equipment to build and operate them. This technology-development focus‚ allowed them to develop and amass a set of resources and capabilities
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RESOURCES BASE VIEW Financial resources: The 1998 financial report shows that SingTel‚ the largest telecommunications company in Singapore‚ has a huge reserve (cash and bank deposits) of S$4.44 billion. This is the company’s strength as not many companies have such large reserves. The debt-to-equity ratio1 in the last 3 years was also very low. In fact in 1997‚ it was just 0.05 as opposed to in 1998 and 1999 when it was merely 0.06. With such a huge reserve and low debt-to-equity ratio‚ SingTel
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INVESTIGATORY PROJECT Oven-Dried Blackberry Fruit As A Substitute For TEA Abstract Our country imports commercial tea from tea-producing countries. This is why the tea we drink is expensive. This research project is aimed at finding whether oven-dried blackberry fruit can be a substitute for commercial tea. This study would also like to determine other possible uses of the fruit‚ which is abundant when in season. Samples of blackberry fruit went through oven-drying and then pulverized
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name professor class date Greedy Blackberry Pickers The poem Blackberry-Picking‚ by Seamus Heaney‚ is about a group of children who become overexcited over picking berries then sobbing after their hard work has rotted away due to the fermentation of the picked berries. Through this ordinary depiction of fruit rotting‚ the author illustrates the theme of human aging and mortality. The author expresses this theme through a
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BLACKBERRY phone Originally‚ this product was developed and designed by a Canadian company Research In Motion (RIM) since 1996. In 1999 the first Blackberry device was introduced as a two way pager - RIM 850. BlackBerry first made headway in the marketplace by concentrating on e-mail. The more commonly known smartphone BlackBerry was released in 2002 ‚ which supports push e-mail‚ mobile telephone‚ text messaging‚ Internet faxing‚ Web browsing and other wireless information services. It is an
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What is the context? • RIM launched its first BlackBerry in 1999 • A success in the « boardroom segment » especially thanks to the e-mail application • Its first competitot became first Palm and then the Motorola Q and severals Nokia models 1 BlackBerry Case How is the market in 2005? • More than 800 millions of mobile phones in the world • Among these 4‚7% of smartphones • So there is a huge potential from the « normal »mobile phones The smartphones market shares
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