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To: engineer who wrote (28094)	4/22/1999 1:30:00 PM
From: Ruffian	Respond to of 152472

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To: engineer who wrote (28094)	4/22/1999 2:10:00 PM
From: 2brasil	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 152472

0t-- Nokia Profits Double, Ericsson's Halves HELSINKI, Finland (Reuters) - Nokia, the world's largest mobile phone maker, said Thursday its first-quarter profits almost doubled, but Swedish rival Ericsson posted a stunning 51 percent plunge in profits amid increased competition. Nokia, based in Helsinki, Finland, reported a 96 percent jump in first-quarter profits to 758 million euros ($802.6 million). This was 21 percent above analysts' consensus estimate of 624 million. In the past two years, Nokia has frequently exceeded analysts' estimates in its results. Ericsson, the world's third-largest mobile phone maker, said its pretax profits fell to 1.3 billion Swedish crowns ($154.5 million) from 2.64 billion ($313.7 million) in the year-ago first quarter, far below expectations of 1.86 billion crowns ($221 million). Sales rose 8 percent to 41.57 billion crowns ($4.9 billion). ''Nokia has the Midas touch in mobile phones right now, they are mining gold. Analysts will have to substantially raise earnings forecasts for this year ... by 10 to 20 percent,'' said Lauri Rosendahl, analyst at Aros Securities in Helsinki. Nokia said the first quarter -- with strong sales growth in all regions -- made it confident of reaching its sales growth target of 25-35 percent in 1999. ''The growth of our mobile phone sales volumes exceeded market growth worldwide and we further solidified our position as the world's leading mobile phone supplier,'' it said in its first-quarter report. Analysts said they would have to raise their estimates for results of the company, which has soared to become Europe's sixth-biggest company by market capitalization in the 1990s. The consensus forecast in a Reuters poll for Nokia's 1999 pretax profit is 3.08 billion euros ($3.3 billion) and the consensus for 2000 is 3.66 billion euros ($3.9 billion). By contrast, Ericsson's forecast that 1999 profits would not match the 1998 level. Sven-Christer Nilsson, who became chief executive last March, said Ericsson was facing financial uncertainty in several markets, increased research and development costs, lower profitability for some products, and restructuring costs. ''This means that, in spite of a stronger second half of 1999, income per share for the year is expected to be lower than in 1998,'' Nilsson said in a statement. Ericsson has unveiled a new platform of high-tech mobile phones to be launched through the year but they are not expected to have a significant effect until the second half of the year. Ericsson's recent acquisitions of U.S. companies will not affect results yet. It paid almost $500 million in cash for U.S. Internet-based data communications companies Torrent Networking Technologies and TouchWave Inc. earlier this month. These are expected to reduce profits this year. The world's No. 2 mobile phone maker is Motorola Inc. (NYSE:MOT - news) of Schaumburg, Ill. Search News Stories Search News Photos Apr 21 \| Apr 20 \| Apr 19 \| Apr 18 \| Apr 17 \| Apr 16 \| Apr 15 \| Apr 14 \| Apr 13 \| Apr 12

To: engineer who wrote (28094)	4/23/1999 2:25:00 PM
From: DaveMG	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 152472

Pardon me but what the hell is this? April 23, 1999 Kyocera develops prototype of Emultek cdmaOne phone PASADENA, Calif.—Emultek Ltd. announced Kyocera Corp. of Japan has developed a fully functional prototype of its cdmaOne phone using Emultek's RapidPLUS software, which graphically models, simulates and tests virtual product interfaces and automatically generates C code and the documentation needed to begin manufacturing. ‘‘The performance of the RapidPLUS-generated C code met all our requirements while keeping RAM and ROM consumption low,'' said Hiromasa Yamashita of Kyocera's Product Development Division for Communications Equipment. ‘‘Furthermore, after receiving training from Emultek's engineering team, we were able to develop and quickly integrate our RapidPLUS application into our target embedded environment ourselves.'' rcrnews.com