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RSS docomoVodafone: Cheaper phone bills can ad up
News has been pushing the idea of mobile advertising lately, talking up search keywords after having signed a deal with NTT DoCoMo in Japan. Vodafone has revealed that it will partner with Yahoo! to offer its subscribers the chance to swap cheaper phone... [14 Nov 2006]
The Weekly Round-Up: 03.11.06
Round-Up It seems NTT DoCoMo, the company behind the handset, has really got women sussed - which puts it at a definite advantage over the Round-Up and the rest of mankind. "Beep beep, time to make a baby. You might be forgiven for thinking that sounds like... [03 Nov 2006]
Upwardly mobile: What do silver surfers want?
Comment Japan has its own Simple trend, with a handset range called Raku Raku from operator NTT DoCoMo. Like most corporate smart cookies, the mobile operators and handset floggers have woken up to the fact that there's an aging population with not... [01 Nov 2006]
"Beep beep, time to make a baby"
News The D702iF, available through Japan's NTT DoCoMo, comes in pastel pink and was the idea of female designer Momoko Ikuta. Proving that truth is often stranger than fiction, a mobile phone that rings to inform its user she is ovulating has been... [31 Oct 2006]
Coming to a mobile near you: Ads
News Also on Wednesday, Reuters reported NTT DoCoMo will add Yahoo! Yahoo! on Wednesday launched a beta version of sponsored search results on mobile phones in the UK and US. Like Yahoo! s sponsored search results on the web, advertisers will bid in an... [05 Oct 2006]
3G: Are you planning for what comes next?
News Operators including China Mobile, NTT DoCoMo, Orange, T-Mobile and Vodafone have all signed up to the Next Generation Networks Mobile Initiative (NGNMI). Both Japan's NTT DoCoMo and Samsung claim to be already working on technologies that fit the... [15 Sep 2006]
Samsung flashes its 4G
News NTT DoCoMo, Japan's largest mobile operator, is planning to launch a commercial 4G network in 2010 and has already piloted VSF-OFCDM and VSF-CDMA technologies. Samsung is claiming to have cracked 4G, while most of the mobile industry couldn't tell... [31 Aug 2006]
Mobile Linux movement picks up pace
News Back in June a mobile Linux alliance was formed between Motorola, NEC, NTT DoCoMo, Panasonic Mobile Communications, Samsung Electronics and Vodafone. Linux is picking up more support in the mobile industry as a challenger to established players... [17 Aug 2006]
Motorola pledges 50 per cent Linux
News Also on board are telecommunications companies NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone, the largest carriers in Asia and Europe, respectively. For Motorola, the number two maker of mobile phones, Linux is the way of the future. [16 Aug 2006]
Mobile data busts $100bn milestone
News Informa found that Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo is top of the mobile data pops, extracting $2.5bn from users' pockets in the first quarter of this year. While it might not be the bloated cash cow that the operators were once hoping for, mobile data... [27 Jul 2006]
Mobile giants unite on common Linux push
News Mobile phone makers Motorola, NEC, Panasonic and Samsung, along with mobile operators NTT DoCoMo and Vodafone, have announced plans to form an independent foundation to develop a common mobile Linux-based platform. [15 Jun 2006]
100 million 3G users this month
News Most of the 3G population is still located in Japan and South Korea, where operators DoCoMo, Hutchison and SK Telecom are pushing 3G. Nearly six years after UK operators spent the GDP of a small country on buying 3G licences - £22bn to be exact... [09 Jun 2006]
Asia-Pacific RIM: BlackBerry goes to Japan
News RIM is to debut its trademark email device in Japan for the first time after inking a deal with the country's largest carrier, NTT DoCoMo. NTT DoCoMo will launch the devices from this autumn, RIM said, although the handset maker is yet to provide... [08 Jun 2006]
Google's search for mobile goes east
News The tech giant announced on Thursday that it is working with KDDI, the country's second-largest mobile-service provider after NTT DoCoMo, to provide a search service for mobile phone users in the Japanese market as of July. [19 May 2006]
Nokia and Visa team up for credit cards
News A similar technology is already in use in Japan, where local mobile operator NTT DoCoMo has launched its own credit card brand, iD, which enables consumers to pay for items with their 'wallet phones'. [28 Apr 2006]
