Tata DoCoMo To Start News Ticker Service On Cellphone Stand-by Screen In India, Which Is Very Common In Japan

Tata DoCoMo, which is a joint venture of a Tokyo-based giant mobile operator and the telecom arm of an Indian conglomerate group and started cellphone service in southern part of India last June, announced it would start i-Channel which helps subscribers to get latest news updates on cellphone stand-by screen. When you find an interesting… Continue reading Tata DoCoMo To Start News Ticker Service On Cellphone Stand-by Screen In India, Which Is Very Common In Japan

MCF Announces This Year’s Award-Winning Mobile Projects (2/2)

Continued from the previous post. ———- Excellent Award (Mobile Solution Category) Won by McDonalds Japan[J] and the JV, a McDonalds’ joint venture with NTT DoCoMo, with their customer relationship marketing project by using cellphone wallet and mobile apps. Every Friday they distribute virtual discount coupons for McDonald’s meals to participating members’ handsets, which is valid… Continue reading MCF Announces This Year’s Award-Winning Mobile Projects (2/2)

MCF Announces This Year’s Award-Winning Mobile Projects (1/2)

Last Friday, Mobile content forum (MCF)[J], a consortium of many Japanese mobile device developers and mobile app developers, announced this year’s award[J] winning projects, which were chosen from brand-new innovative projects that were released in the last twelve months. ———- Excellent Award (Mobile Content Category) Won by Weathernews, the world’s largest private meteorological company headquartered… Continue reading MCF Announces This Year’s Award-Winning Mobile Projects (1/2)

Japan’s First Android Phone HT-03A By NTT DoCoMo

Last night, before the release of the first Android phone in Japan [J], NTT DoCoMo, Google and HTC Nippon(=Japan) had a “touch and try” event with 70 bloggers at Roppongi Hills. The new phone HT-03A [J] is based on HTC Magic, with some customization for Japanese market. Japanese Input Method Omron’s iWnn is bundled. Wnn… Continue reading Japan’s First Android Phone HT-03A By NTT DoCoMo

iPhone 3GS Keeps No.1 In Japan On Its 2nd Week

This is a follow-up article on the news of iPhone sales in Japan. BCN weekly ranking [J] is updated and now we are seeing a weekly ranking for June 29th to July 5th. The newly introduced iPhone 3GS 32GB stays at the top position, whilst the 16GB loses No.2 position taken back by Sharp SH-06A.… Continue reading iPhone 3GS Keeps No.1 In Japan On Its 2nd Week

Eva-Phone Confirmed To Produce Additional Lots

NTT DoCoMo announced it would introduce a new model cellphone handset[J] featuring a new animation film, EVANGELION: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE[J] which is scheduled to be released at cinemas in late June. All of 20,000 lots reserved for advance orders were completely sold out as few as in five hours just after DoCoMo had… Continue reading Eva-Phone Confirmed To Produce Additional Lots

Google Developer Day 2009 Yokohama

Google held “Google Developer Day 2009“, an annual conference introducing a number of technology trends that the company had recently developed, in Yokohama on Tuesday and started with a keynote speech made by its Tokyo office president Koichiro Tsujino[J]. Following Tsujino’s expressing his appreciation for a large participation in the event, the company’s senior product… Continue reading Google Developer Day 2009 Yokohama

Is It For Monitoring Your Performance, Or Preventing You From Adult Disease?

NTT DoCoMo announced today it would launch a new service providing corporate users with health advisory for preventing their employees from adult disease. If a corporate user applies for the service, NTT DoCoMo will start collecting vital data from pedometer-enabled cellphone handsets owned by the company’s employees, they can be advised by health nurses and… Continue reading Is It For Monitoring Your Performance, Or Preventing You From Adult Disease?

NTT DoCoMo To Start Cellphone Banking Service, While KDDI Runs A Year Ahead

NTT DoCoMo and Mizuho Bank are reportedly planning to launch a micro payment banking service using cellphone handsets. By using the bank agent system that permits non-financial companies to deal with financial services, the cellphone giant will launch the service in this summer as soon as Japan’s monetary authority approves it. The new service allows… Continue reading NTT DoCoMo To Start Cellphone Banking Service, While KDDI Runs A Year Ahead

Avex and NTT DoCoMo Launch TV Station Exclusively For Cellphone Users

On Friday, a joint venture of the Tokyo-based emerging music company Avex Group and Japan’s largest cellphone operator NTT DoCoMo, Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc. launched a TV service called BeeTV[J], which is fully designed for cellphone handsets viewing. Unlike 1-seg TV service using a segment in terrestrial digital broadcast wave to carry visual and… Continue reading Avex and NTT DoCoMo Launch TV Station Exclusively For Cellphone Users