Psion, the UK handheld computer maker, said it would take a £29m ($41m) charge and lay off 250 staff...
Psion, the UK handheld computer maker, said it would take a £29m ($41m) charge and lay off 250 staff in its mobile computer division, as it continues to refocus its business away from the saturated consumer market and towards the corporate sector. The company said on Wednesday that the Psion Digital division had continued to perform poorly in "weak and oversupplied markets for handheld computers and related cellular phone markets". It added that further commoditisation of these markets was expected next year. The Financial Times Marconi, already besieged by investors, employees a...
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