1.1 The Morph concept The “Nokia Morph” is a theoretical future device based on nanotechnology that might enable future communication devices. It is intended to demonstrate the flexibility of future mobile devices‚ in regards to their shape and form allowing the users to transform them according to their preference. It demonstrates the ultimate functionality that nanotechnology might be capable of delivering i.e. flexible materials‚ transparent electronics and self-cleaning surfaces. It also features
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Microsoft and Nokia. This ‘transformation’‚ turning Microsoft into a ‘devices and services’ company‚ is key to the company’s continuing survival‚ and would be impossible without Nokia. Here are four reasons why the acquisition had to happen: Microsoft need to keep its momentum Recent industry figures have shown Microsoft’s Windows Phone 8 posting its highest ever market share allowing the mobile OS to leapfrog BlackBerry and become the third-most popular globally. This means that Windows Phone
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| History 1865 to 1967 | | | Fredrik Idestam‚ co-founder of Nokia. | | Statesman Leo Mechelin‚ co-founder of Nokia. | The predecessors of the modern Nokia were the Nokia Company (Nokia Aktiebolag)‚ Finnish Rubber Works Ltd (Suomen Gummitehdas Oy) and Finnish Cable Works Ltd (Suomen Kaapelitehdas Oy).[13] Nokia’s history started in 1865 when mining engineer Fredrik Idestam established a groundwood pulp mill on the banks of the Tammerkoski rapids in the town of Tampere‚ in southwestern
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es NOKIA WEAKNESS The state or quality of being weak is the definition of weakness and therefore any organization‚ company and even people do have weakness. Therefore Nokia as a company does have it own weakness and the weaknesses are as follows. - Nokia fired a number of R&D employees in order to cut costs as of just weeks ago (Pepin G. 2009). As of that it will probably have effect on short run margin or long run margin. - Some of the products are not user friendly; if the customers face
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international influence or start operating on an international scale (Capital‚ 2013). Globalization has increased the production of goods and services‚ for instance the biggest companies are no longer national firms‚ but transnational corporations with subsidiaries in many countries. Transnational Corporations (TNCs) are companies with branches in many different countries worldwide. They have their headquarters in their country of origin‚ and many manufacture their products in LEDCs. Examples of TNCs include
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GLOBALIZATION AND TRANSNATIONAL CORPORATIONS Economic integration as a hallmark of globalization • FDI increase • Increase of international currency transactions • Growth of marginal courtiers Global blessing or contagious disease? • Asian crisis Capitalism not yet fully globalized? • Core of the economy –30 countries: Asian Pacific‚ Western Europe‚ North America • Geopolitical changes: Soviet Union demise • Unequal development of technology
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TOWARDS INTERNATIONAL AND TRANSNATIONAL MANAGEMENT While universal advice cannot be given ‚ every country has to face dilemas: - in relation to time - in relationships with people - in relation to natural environment The reserach in this book shows that there are different ways to approach these dilemmas in different countries because each country has its own culture . The managers examined to make up the data base of this reaserch have two different ways of building the
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certain men. While contemporary feminist movements have addressed these exclusions‚ there were many early struggles for the transnational women’s movement. Using readings from Grewal and Kaplan’s textbook‚ An Introduction to Women’s Studies: Gender in a Transnational World‚ Leila Rupp’s sixth chapter‚ class notes‚ and discussions‚ I analyze national identities and transnational feminist perspectives on the private/public dichotomy in relation to citizenship. National identities and gender develop
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International/Transnational Crimes Saphia Christopher Strayer University CRJ 330 Professor Ackerman International crimes can be described as “crimes against the peace and security of mankind”. International crimes are based on international agreements between countries or on legal precedents developed through history‚ and include offenses such as such as genocide‚ torture‚ and enslavement of populations. These are among the acts identified by consensus among nations as being
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trafficking as it pertains to transnational crime. My study will present concepts of recruitment and transportation of persons through coercion‚ deception‚ or other forms of illicit influence in labor and sexual exploitation. The goal is the acknowledgment of philosophical and ethical tensions in human trafficking‚ the ability to recognize the power relations through interpreting the question of human dignity‚ and the assessment of the prevalence of agency in the transnational crime of the globalization
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