Euroland's Tech Wreck (VOD, ERIC, NOK)
                   
investopedia.com     Jul 25, 2008          

July 25, 2008 | By Eugene Bukoveczky Personal computers and the internet were the foundations of the tech boom in America, but in Europe the No.1 tech growth story over the last two decades has been the mobile phone. Use of these handy little gadgets has become so popular across the pond that to many Europeans cell phones have actually evolved into lifestyle. Gaudy candy-colored handsets have become the latest "must have" fashion accessory. Mobile Techno-Lust This love affair with "le mobile" has become so pervasive that one-quarter of European households don't even have land line phones anymore, relying solely on their mobiles. In places like Finland and Portugal, that proportion has reached almost unbelievable levels of 61% and 48% respectively, according to a 2008 survey of 27,000 European homes done by European... [read full story]                    


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