iPhone owners will be happy to hear there is potential salvation for extra juice while on the run coming soon via this external solar panel charger. Tagged at about $40 and available as of Sept. 1st it will also connect power-up thirsty Nintendo DS and PSP and Japanese 3G handsets as well.
DoCoMo doubles equity in Zenrin map service to 20% – at $2,400 per share – $7.2M investment, 2nd largest shareholder [J] http://bit.ly/euBu2
Motorola and NEC get the nod to provide KDDI’s LTE platform scheduled to start operating in December 2012 via Bloomberg: http://bit.ly/pTCT1
SoftBank Mobile gets ministry approval for LTE trial, thru spring 2010, using 1.5GHz spectrum in Fukuoka Prefecture. [J] http://bit.ly/zfO3m
DoCoMo delays sale of L-04A by LG on software glitch related to camera function [J] http://bit.ly/1Lm2b8 Product Details http://bit.ly/7Q2OR
Suica & PASMO reports 42.91M retail purchases in July = 1.63M per day +195% from Apr’07 [J .PDF] http://bit.ly/VjawY
ITU World 2009 runs again this year, Oct. 5 – 9 in Geneva, with 18 Japanese Telecom leaders on-hand to discuss ICTs for economic growth. With its focus on development opportunities, the event brings together corporate social responsibility and displays cases of best practices. As always it looks to be a fantastic high-level gathering and we hope to be there!
Gerd Leonhard in Japan next week @tokyo2point0 on 24th & ACCJ 26th – Future of Business in a Networked and Mobile Society http://ow.ly/kuXk
Yappa announces e-book reader for Android handsets, 1st title is Tezuka magazine, they did same for iPhone in April [J] http://bit.ly/QHu9U
NTT announces addition of English study keywords, with related terms, to their mobile “Goo Dictionary” as of today [J] http://bit.ly/dS3N2
