Year
2011
DoCoMo and KT to Explore NFC
DoCoMo has announced Co-Op with Korea-based KT Telecom and other partners on developing common platform NFC services: http://bit.ly/hPCyC9Renesas Develops Tri-Mode Modem
Renesas has announced new tri-Mode modems to enable wireless connections whether in LTE, HSPA ir GSM networks http://bit.ly/e0epvgToshiba to Deliver NFC SIMS to KDDI
Toshiba will provide KDDI with NFC enabled USIM cards, designed for CDMA & GSM chipsets targeted at global markets http://bit.ly/eQAao1Sprint Lands Kyocera Dual Screen Echo
Sprint has announced the new dual-screen Echo by Kyocera running on Android is available for US markets http://bit.ly/e1DqmYJapan Smartphone Research Report
The MCPC Smartphone Promotion Committee just released their Smartphone Trend and Evolution in Japan paper: http://bit.ly/mQovu8GREE Announces Android SNS Games
GREE, the Tokyo-based mobile platform, has announced Android offerings for SNS and games are now good-to-go! http://bit.ly/dSLu71SoftBank Reports Impressive Gains
SoftBank Group released their Q3 results, with strong YoY gains, on Feb 3rd. Details & conf. video-link in English here http://bit.ly/hBrfBG
ACCESS at Mobile World Congress 2011
As always we look forward to see ACCESS at Fira during the upcoming MWC event in Barcelona - they have lots to show! http://bit.ly/fdPhXyNEC Does Femtocell Deal in India
According to official PR via Newswire, NEC has inked a deal with Aricent to deploy Femtocell solutions in India http://bit.ly/dGJtpdHandset Makers Quarterly Reports
Results in from Casio, Fujitsu, NEC & Toshiba it seems their consolidated component market focus is succeeding http://bit.ly/dWwMLp
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