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RSS mode japan3G rollouts: Better late than billions and never?
Comment After all, mobile sales remain healthy (if not up to the stratospheric figures of 2000) and if we're talking about Japan, consider the success NTT, JT's main rival, has had with i-Mode - 20 million subscribers and climbing at a rate of 37,000 a day. [06 Mar 2001]
Windows XP, Japan's PDA push, and the CIA's strange interest in SafeWeb
Comment The Japanese are aided by the fact that their mobile market is already developing rapidly on the back of i-mode. Bill Gates says that Windows XP is the most important version of Windows yet to be launched. [16 Feb 2001]
Exclusive: BT Cellnet hits cut price internet hopes for six
News Thorsten Wichmann, CEO of German internet research company Berlecon, said: "Both rates are more expensive than Japan's i-mode service, and even more expensive when you take Japan's higher cost of living into account. [29 Jan 2001]
i-mode launch threatened by trademark wars
News NTT DoCoMo, which markets the i-mode service in Japan, is due to launch a European i-mode service in Europe next year. Different companies are battling over the name 'i-mode', which is expected to appear on the European market during the next year. [15 Dec 2000]
DoCoMo profits from Japan's mobile internet market
News DoCoMo has become the largest ISP in Japan by virtue of its 14 million i-Mode, combined email and net access, users. The company expects this number to hit 20 million by the end of March, meaning the company will be the largest mobile multimedia... [15 Nov 2000]
Japanese criminals versus the i-Mode vigilantes
News The proposals include a website that can be contacted by i-Mode enabled mobile phones which will carry information on wanted criminals and also allow members of the public to use their mobile phones to report sightings. [08 Nov 2000]
Learning the lessons of WAP
Comment In that respect, Japan has led the way. Companies such as KDDI and especially NTT DoCoMo with its i-Mode service have marketed heavily and now have millions of mobile data users. End users, whether businesses or individual consumers, are suspicious... [12 Oct 2000]
NTT DoCoMo linked with mobile AOL content deal
News DoCoMo currently offers an internet service via i-mode technology in Japan, to which it has signed up 8 million customers in just over a year. Japanese telco NTT DoCoMo has refused to comment on industry rumours it is about to announce a deal with... [26 Jul 2000]
Developer worries see WAP turning Japanese
News The WAP Forum has set up a working group to extend and adapt its existing protocols to cover xTML, and it is expected to include cHTML - the scripting language used by Japan's successful I-Mode. Developers behind the wireless internet protocol, WAP... [10 Jul 2000]
Logica application offers rival to WAP
News Logica's move to HTML-based software follows the success of NTT DoCoMo's HTML-based i-mode service, which has gained twice as many users in Japan as rival WAP technology. Logica is taking on WAP with the release of a new software application, M... [23 Jun 2000]
Is WAP pap?
Comment In fact, the success of NTT DoCoMo's i-mode technology - a potential international rival to the WAP standard - in Japan is largely due to the fact that it runs on packet-based networks. WAP is one of the best known acronyms to have ever been put... [07 Jun 2000]
