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Friday, December 1
MSNBC : Net phone creator says keep technology simple She did it by insisting on an easy-to-use product in battles with bureaucratic-minded bosses and jargon-loving consultants, a struggle Matsunaga recounts in her book, “I-mode Incident,” a best seller with 180,000 copies out since July. read more...
wapprofit iMode Web Based Emulator To use live it requires that you are connected to the internet on a PC and have Microsoft Internet Expolrer 5.0 installed on your machine. Known problems include difficulty with some php scripted sites and no native support for Japanese. read more... Thursday, November 30
FT.com: Poor Wap sales hit Sagem Shares in Sagem, the French telecoms equipment maker, fell more than a third after it warned that disappointing European take-up of internet-accessible mobile phones would hit full-year turnover and profits. read more... Wednesday, November 29
FT.com : AOL's charges top the bill As AOL extends its reach beyond the desktop into wireless devices and interactive TV, in a plan called "AOL Anywhere", its stubborn attachment to fee charging may prove its biggest asset. read more...
BBC : Surfers slow to warm to Wap The report shows that as well as our continuing love affair with the mobile, the internet is having an increasingly noticeable impact on our day-to-day lives, with a third of people shopping online and four-and-a-half million people banking on the internet. read more... Tuesday, November 28
FT.com : US Supreme Court rejects wireless auction appeal A last-minute legal action aimed at halting a widely-anticipated wireless spectrum auction in the US was rejected by the Supreme Court. Unfortunately, much of that spectrum is already being used. read more...
FT.com : Japan forms wireless campus Rikkyo University, located in western Tokyo, has launched a web site accessible from NTT DoCoMo's i-mode phones that allows students to catch up on missed classwork, ask professors questions and check lecture cancellations. read more...
AllNetDevices : Kyocera Unveils Palm-Based Phone The CDMA phone is based on the Palm OS version 3.5 and includes standard Palm applications. It also can use any applications developed for the Palm platform. It comes with 8MB of RAM. read more...
AllNetDevices : Marketing Laws Don't Always Work With Wireless Even abbreviated content from AOL, CNN or The New York Times is too heavy for tiny screens on low-bandwidth devices. Given the limitations of the medium, wireless users want tiny packets of hyperpersonalized information, not boiled down versions of generic information. read more... Monday, November 27
Financial Times: Japanese men warm to internet-enabled girlfriends More than 30,000 Japanese men have struck up relationships with "virtual girlfriends" through a service on internet-capable mobile phones. read more
Unstrung : Is It An MP3 Player or Is It A Phone? The Uproar also comes standard with Short Message Service, voice-activated dialing, bilingual capabilities and a voice memo option. The T9 text input software allows the user to save time when using the organizer by serving as a predictive speller. read more... Sunday, November 26
TheFeature : I Want My MP3 Users can take their recorded music collection, and place it in the "music vault" located on the Sprint PCS site. From there, they can create custom playlists, research favorite artists, and store songs from CDs. read more...
ComputerUser : Nokia's Third-Generation Smartphone One original plan, a source told Newsbytes, was to launch the phone at next spring's CeBIT Computer Faire in Germany, roughly three months before actual availability. The date was shuffled forward, the source said, when Nokia realized that its Symbian EPOC-driven smartphone would be eclipsed by a new Psion EPOC superphone, which is scheduled for launch next January. read more...
CNN.com : VisorPhone brings voice, Internet to handheld An attachment to the company's Visor personal digital assistant, the VisorPhone not only adds wireless data capability. It also adds cellular telephony. read more...
WAPLand : Vodafone Reports WAP Growth "We are particularly encouraged by the initial trends we are seeing with respect to mobile data and internet usage, even prior to the introduction of the more user friendly, enhanced technologies that we will be rolling out during the course of the next year," read more... |
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