Year
2010
Fujitsu & Toshiba Handset Merger
Fujitsu and Toshiba merger rumors, would be #2 domestic player after Sharp, combined resources for emerging markets: http://bit.ly/amwd3GMobile Money Summit Presentation
Here's a treat - Lars presentation, on video, at the recent Mobile Money Summit in Rio de Janerio!
DoCoMo Starts LTE Trials in Tokyo
DoCoMo tests LTE in Tokyo in 5Mhz gets 37Mbs down & 12Mbs uplink, expecting 2x speed in 10Mhz band, launches Dec. More: http://bit.ly/aQSKehSoftBank Announces iPhone4
SoftBank Mobile announced [JPN] they will put the iPhone 4 on the domestic market June 24. The reservation is accepted starting June 15. The reservation beginning is expected to then make public about the charge of the terminal and the communication plan stating it is currently undecided.
Kazaspot Mobile FeliCa
NTT Com announces 'Kazaspot' Mobile Marketing Solution for users with FeliCa NFC enabled handsets - Full Eng. PR here: http://bit.ly/cfUoIFXperia Tops Japan Sales in May
According the this article [JPN] in the Yomiuri Shimbun, quoting BCN Rankings, the Xperia by Sony Ericsson took top spot here last month with the iPhone 16GB dropping to 4th place.
DoCoMo at CommunicAsia 2010
DoCoMo at CommunicAsia 2010 Exhibition - Details in Eng: http://bit.ly/a7XGe3 We look forward to see you there as well..!!i-mobile Claims 7B Impressions in May
According to the Asahi, i-mobile recorded an avg. of +200M daily requests in May for just over 7B impressions in total - JPN: http://bit.ly/93G6ggBlackBerry App World for Japan
RIM is rolling their Blackberry App World for the Japan market as of today! Details in JPN - http://bit.ly/cGlyqrOpera Declares Flash Support
Considering the market penetration of Opera in Japan and vast amount of mobile Flash driven offering here.. not much of a surprise. Without getting too deep into a predictable flame war, it is 'interesting' that Apple opposes the ubiquitous Adobe product supposedly based on their aversion to it being a proprietary standard.. when in-effect they are clearly "guilty" of that approach in many ways as well. Perhaps the real issue would have something more to-do with the fact that Flash would potentially crack open wider access to transactions beyond the current closed App Store money machine.. so until then you have the distant dream of html 5.
Mobikyo K.K. publishes Wireless Watch Japan, organizes MobileMonday Tokyo networking events and operates Mobile Intelligence study tours providing related custom research and advisory services. Mobikyo's founding directors are deeply connected with, respected by, and committed to, Japan's wireless and IT business community. Thousands of managers, planners, engineers and strategists depend on Mobikyo to learn about Japan's unique business models, technologies, contents, services, applications and hardware from the most innovative test-bed market for next-generation mobile industry. "Mobikyo" was chosen for the unique blending of Mobile and Tokyo. However, depending on the kanji character used for kyo, it could also mean association, capital, religion or today. With fantastic support from our clients, partners and affiliates in Japan and overseas, we have become the trusted source of independent market intelligence & business networking connections based in Tokyo.
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