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Femtocells to cure 3G headaches?
News Heath said people's expectations are always ahead of what the network can deliver - citing the example of Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo's ongoing investment in its 3G network. While this might sound like music to the ears of mobile operators there... [26 Nov 2007]
The rise and rise of the Asian tech empire
AS Analysis This year, there are two Japanese names of note. While Jobs took the category of digital music players and recast his company as the one that brought that platform to the masses, Iwata at Nintendo launched the Wii, bringing gaming to millions who... [12 Oct 2007]
Who will Lead Mobile Music Industry in Asia?
White Paper The main issues in the Korean online music industry are introduced with a comparison to the Japanese mobile music industry. Since Korean mobile market has been characterized as mobile carrier driven market, new technology based mobile music... [20 Sep 2007]
Google's search for mobile goes east
News KDDI has more than 22 million mobile phone users, less than half of DoCoMo's, but its Au brand service is more popular among young Japanese people because of services such as music downloads. The tech giant announced on Thursday that it is working... [19 May 2006]
DoCoMo to buy into credit card company?
News While most mobile companies are looking to turn their phones into music players or cameras, Japanese mobile giant DoCoMo is putting money behind the trend for turning handsets into wallets. With newer FeliCa phones carrying user cash accounts and... [20 Apr 2005]
Microsoft punts R&D and speech recognition in mobile battle
News With mobile music downloads still a relatively new phenomenon in the UK - Vodafone announced recently it had notched up a million sales in around three months - MP3 players are already a standard feature on most Japanese and South Korean mobiles. [07 Mar 2005]
The Walkman returns - as a Sony Ericsson phone
News Nor was there any precise number put on how many of the W800 Walkman handsets the Swedish-Japanese company has forecast it will ship. Later this year, upcoming Walkman phones are expected to be announced that allow tracks to be downloaded from... [01 Mar 2005]
Microsoft launches into search
News MSN Search vice president Christopher Payne would not disclose ad spending, but he estimated that 90 per cent of Americans, as well as UK and Japanese residents, will encounter the campaign. search technology for its Korean and Japanese sites... [01 Feb 2005]
Leader: Rip off Britain - this time it's digital
Leader Often a country where a good is manufactured gets a better deal (though not always - ask the Japanese). Expect others to exert pressure on what is still expensive music. Apple should realise that healthy legal music at a decent price is ultimately... [17 Sep 2004]
Games and video the keys to European mobile
News The UK'sO2 and Vodafone have introduced video and music services, while Japanese operator NTT DoCoMo has rolled out its i-mode service in Europe.i-mode is a technology for connecting to online services from a mobile phone. [24 May 2004]
Analysis: Sony and Apple growing ever more alike
Comment Sony's Connect store and associated electronics are part of the Japanese giant's bid to recapture its role as the personal electronics leader. It's not just that both are using pop singer Sheryl Crow to tout their digital music services. [06 May 2004]
'Untraceable' Japanese P2P network users arrested
News Japanese peer-to-peer (P2P) file-sharing network which claimed to keep user identities untraceable has failed to work - two users in Japan have been arrested. Both cases involve homegrown P2P networks sharing local-language music. [03 Dec 2003]
Record labels eye-up ringtone services
News Compelling evidence to support this claim is already surfacing, with the Japanese Society for the Rights of Authors, Composers and Publishers reporting a doubling of ringtone sales in 2002 over the previous year, with an average of 110 million... [31 Jul 2003]
Apple users to get their own digital music service
News As for copy protection, Apple includes none with the iPod currently, though the device does come in a plastic wrap that admonishes in English, French, German and Japanese: "Don't steal music. Apple has previously found itself snubbed by most of the... [05 Mar 2003]
Game Boy advances
News Japanese game maker Nintendo expects to continue to dominate the portable-gaming market, despite renewed threats from the mobile phone industry. Also this week, a joint venture between Japanese electronics makers Toshiba, Bandai and Imagica... [06 Feb 2003]
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