China Mobile to drive growth with e-readers.The head of China Mobile, the largest mobile carrier in the world, has seen part of the firm's future growth in the e-reader market. Wang Jianzhou, executive and chairman of China Mobile, called e-reading a "new culture" and said he expects such services to grow in China because of the rising popularity of smart phones, which can download To receive a file transmitted over a network. In any communications session, "download" means receive, and "upload" means send. The download/upload often implies a big/little scenario, in which data is being downloaded from the "big" server into the "little" user's computer. content faster than conventional cell phones. Wang said China Mobile is also promoting the use of e-readers, a palm-sized unit that allows people to receive large volumes of content on a screen that does not glare into the eyes like cell phones. The carrier already has 40 million customers who receive news briefs daily with their cell phones. "That has exceeded the circulation of many newspapers," Wang said at a panel discussion hosted by Taiwan's Business Weekly in Taipei on Monday night. Wang is on a nine-day visit to Taiwan to sign up new partners in the communications industry communications industry, broadly defined, the business of conveying information. Although communication by means of symbols and gestures dates to the beginning of human history, the term generally refers to mass communications. , including service providers and smartphone A cellular telephone with information access. It provides digital voice service as well as any combination of e-mail, text messaging, pager, Web access, voice recognition, still and/or video camera, MP3, TV or video player and organizer (see PDA). makers. He reached a deal on Monday with Taiwan's High Tech Computer (HTC HTC HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language) Component HTC High Tech Computer Corp (Taiwan, China) HTC Hennepin Technical College (Minnesota) HTC High-Throughput Computing ), the world's largest maker of handsets based on Microsoft's Windows Mobile The Windows platform from Microsoft for handheld devices, including PDAs, cellphones and Portable Media Centers. See Pocket PC, Pocket PC Phone Edition, Smartphone and Portable Media Center. platform, to jointly develop smartphones that will run with its 3G network. Wang said he has also placed an e-reader order with Taiwan's Foxconn Technology Group, the world's largest contract electronics manufacturer. Without providing details, Wang said China Mobile will spend at least 120 billion yuan Yuan (yüän), river, 540 mi (869 km) long, rising in S Guizhou prov. and flowing generally NE to Donting lake, Hunan prov., SE China. Navigation above Changde is limited by rapids to small craft. ($17.5 billion) over the next three years on mobile products, including cell phones, laptops and e-readers. Previously the company said it would spend 58.8 billion yuan (US$8.6 billion) on 3G network build-outs in 2009. Taiwanese publishers will be asked to provide content for the company's e-book business, he added. China currently has 680 million cell phone users and China Mobile tops in mobile carriers with nearly 500 million subscribers. E-reader sales to these customers are expected to top several million easily surpassing sales figures sales figures npl → cifras fpl de ventas in America. |
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