On top of rolling out BREW 3.1, KDDI and Big Binary Brother Qualcomm are looking to bring BREW to the boil over the next two years by redeveloping BREW as a de facto OS, according to Nikkei BP today.

Makoto Takahashi, vice president and general manager of the Content and Media Business Division and general manager of the Media Business Dept. at KDDI Corp. (Ed note: This isn’t the longest title we’ve read, but it’s certainly a long haul!) told BREW 2004 conferencees that BREW is a great tool to develop next-gen features on tomorrow’s swank phones. Continue >>

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