PARIS (Reuters) - Following are quotes from the Reuters Technology, Media and Telecoms Summit:
Sony Ericsson (ERICb.ST: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz) (6758.T: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)
President Miles Flint
- "What is GPS (global positioning system) do for me? Today it tells me I'm sitting somewhere 48 degrees north and 2 minutes west. Is that really of that much value if I know I'm sitting in Paris?"
- "Three years ago we had some very successful products, but we talked to the telecoms operators and they told us: 'you cannot be a gap supplier or a niche supplier. They want to work with only a very few big (mobile phone) manufacturers. That's why we took a deep breath in the end of 2004 and started to ramp up our portfolio. In 2006 for the first time we had a full portfolio (of phone models)."
- "We launched more products in the first quarter of this year than in the first half of last year."
ARM Holdings Plc (ARM.L: Quote, Profile, Research, Stock Buzz)
Chief Executive Officer Warren East
- "There's an ongoing concern about IP (intellectual property) (in China). It isn't an overriding concern. To respect the ownership of something you cannot touch is harder to understand there than for someone in the United States." Continued...
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