mobile technology Japan Europe US
Dongle power users will be booted off 3G first
News If this is the case, it could lead to geographical 3G/4G divides - with countries such as the US and Japan, which use CDMA-based tech, more likely to be early LTE adopters than regions such as... [06 Feb 2009]
London still wi-fi king of the world
News The top 10 countries for wi-fi usage, in order, are: the US, the UK, Germany, Switzerland, the Netherlands, France, Japan, Australia, Belgium and Brazil - which makes its debut in the top 10 after... [14 Mar 2008]
How shiny is the iPhone's halo?
News He cited O2 which used technology from an external partner - Japan's NTTDoCoMo - in its i-mode service. Orange, T-Mobile, Vodafone and most recently O2, have all been linked with the... [05 Jul 2007]
Barclays targets taxis with wave-and-pay tech
News NFC technology is already in use in mobile phones and cards in Japan and the US but has been slow in coming to Europe. However, mobile... [27 Apr 2007]
Cash still king - but contactless cards challenge
News David Birch, director at consultancy Consult Hyperion, told silicon.com society will eventually end its love affair with cash and embrace technology - as in Japan where mobile phones,... [13 Mar 2007]
Future mobiles will cost consumers $150bn
News Lane said: "In Japan, the phone has almost become a mobile wallet, primarily because of cultural difference because credit card adoption and uptake is very low. In Europe, it's a long... [31 Jan 2007]
Piracy, patchy broadband hurting online content industry
News For example its research has Europe trailing the US in developing interactive fixed broadband services, and Japan and Korea in developing mobile services. Piracy, the... [29 Jan 2007]
Visa launches mobile payments platform
News J is for Japan Air Until now, Asia has adopted NFC more readily than other parts of the world, with operator NTT DoCoMo launching contactless payment phones in Japan in 2005. Regarding NFC rollouts in... [10 Jan 2007]
3G: Are you planning for what comes next?
News Both Japan's NTT DoCoMo and Samsung claim to be already working on technologies that fit the bill, with rollouts scheduled for the end of the decade. The NGNMI, now a UK company, will be charged with hammering out a... [15 Sep 2006]
The big picture - China's tech scene
Comment In Japan it's for entertainment and in China it will be too. China is very different from Europe in that sense. In Europe the development of 3G has largely been for business. But Kishore... [12 Jun 2006]
Cheat Sheet: NFC and contactless payments
Cheat Sheet FeliCa has been taken up big style by the likes of NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan. They are, like manga comics and Hello Kitty, big in Japan. After all, most people in... [20 Apr 2006]
Leader: Vodafone's Japanese sale
Leader Outside Japan - where it has faced, in the form of NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, two of the canniest and most successful operators in the world - Vodafone's other main area of concern on any significant scale has been the... [06 Mar 2006]
Re:Viewing 2004: Mobile and wireless
News Talk of what has been going on in the US should remind us that while Japan and South Korea have a clear lead in some areas of mobility, North America is no longer a laggard. And that's... [14 Dec 2004]
Radioactive: We want our mobile TV
Comment In Korea, mobile TV has been credited with the nation's 3G uptake far surpassing Japan's. In Europe, 3 Italy has a 10-minute magazine called 93 Minuto which features the week's best... [01 Dec 2004]
Niklas Zennström: Telecoms troublemaker
Comment And the company's breaking into Asian markets such as Japan, China and Taiwan by partnering with local web portals. VoIP applications such as Skype could be a €6.4bn business in Western Europe by 2008,... [05 Nov 2004]
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