Wednesday, December 6

allNetDevices: HK Telecom Fair Heralds New Way of Life The mobile Internet looks certain to become a new way of life throughout the world and its initial charm is being felt at the ongoing International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Telecom Asia 2000 in Hong Kong. read more...
8:01 PM

Tuesday, December 5

allNetDevices : SyncML Spec to Be Released The SyncML initiative has called a press conference for Thursday to officially launch the specification. Expected to attend the press conference will be representatives of some of the founders of the initiative, such as Nokia, IBM, Ericsson, Psion, Palm and Motorola. read more...
5:23 PM

allNetDevices : Vendors Team for Mobile Games "We want to create games that appeal to the 'Playstation generation,'" said Tom Soderlund, CEO of the Stockholm-based It's Alive! "The key is to use the phone-specific features such as mobile positioning." read more...
5:22 PM

The Economist : Do you speak 3G? The Japanese are itching for faster, better-quality news on handsets: already, each of Japan’s big five national newspapers boasts 100,000-200,000 mobile subscribers, who pay ¥100-300 per month for the privilege. read more...
5:20 PM

Forrester : Firms Must Embrace "Microdesign" Today's WAP sites fall short by failing to recognize mobile users' unique needs. However, before overhauling their mobile Internet sites, firms must master the new competency of "Microdesign," built on effortless navigation and concise content. read more...
1:43 AM

Computerworld : Handhelds Link Field Workers and Builders Handheld computers are increasingly making inroads with businesses that want to tie field operations to enterprise databases. But getting an application to effectively talk to a database involves planning, testing and carefully evaluating both hardware and mobile software, according to two managers on a recent test of a mobile work-tracking system at Home Finishes read more...
1:39 AM

NN Group : WAP Usability Report When users were asked whether they were likely to use a WAP phone within one year, a resounding 70% answered no. WAP is not ready for prime time yet, nor do users expect it to be usable any time soon. read more...
1:37 AM

Monday, December 4

Mercury News: Handheld PC can be a public potty pointer If any doubt remained that technology is creeping into the most personal areas of life, this settles it. In the past two years, computing power has gotten small enough to carry in a pocket and the Internet has increasingly gone wireless. Now your wireless Palm handheld computer can point you to a nearby potty. read more...
4:46 PM

AsiaBizTech : DoCoMo Unveils Details of 'FOMA' which stands for freedom of mobile multimedia access, as the service name for the third-generation (IMT-2000) wireless communications system slated to begin operations in Japan by the end of May 2001. read more...
12:29 PM

Sunday, December 3

iMode Eye: Short Video Clips on PHS DoCoMo will offer MPEG4-encoded video on its PHS band. Connecting from a new handheld terminal -with a small color screen and camera- to most of its 64K capable PHS phones. Monthly-subscription starts at 200yen. read more ...
7:23 AM

iMode Eye: i-mode therefore i-drink Just one example of the universality of i-mode in Japan. When a major soft-drink manufacturer wants to sell a new product puts out this poster on the Tokyo subway. Notes for Japanese word watchers, dakara means therefore, so the second last line reads "dakara dakara", its also an anagram of karada, body, and is appropriately enough an isotonic drink. see more ...
7:12 AM

Wired: Japan's Men Date Hot, Sexy Bots "I dated Yumi for awhile, and I have to confess I became very attached to her," said Wataru Uchida of Tokyo. "It was hard sometimes to remember that Yumi wasn't real. She would yell at me and ignore me the exact same way as all my other girlfriends have. I thought a not-real girlfriend would be more relaxing than the usual kind, but I was wrong. Yumi could get very angry over small things. Finally I decided to stop the relationship. It was too draining for me," Uchida said. read more...
7:03 AM

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