Year: <span>2004</span>
Year: 2004

Year: 2004

Telstra Launches i-Mode

Born-in-Japan mobile Internet became reality for Telstra customers with the launch of i-mode, built on NEC’s mobile Internet platform and handsets. Telstra, in partnership with NEC, will provide the key that unlocks i-mode in Australia and change how Australians use their phones. NEC in conjunction with Telstra will deploy the service to offer “A chance for Australia’s leading carrier to gain a significant march on its competition and broaden the gap on mobile services delivery.”

NEC's 128MB for Mobile

NEC Electronics Corp. and its subsidiaries in the US and Europe today introduced the industry’s first Pseudo Static Random Access Memory (PSRAM) device [.jpg] designed in accordance with the Common Specifications for Mobile RAM (COSMORAM) Rev. 3, a memory interface standard developed and promoted jointly by Toshiba, Fujitsu, and NEC Electronics for the mobile handset market.

Toshiba Licenses ARM Processor

JCNN, 9 November 2004
Toshiba Corporation and ARM have announced that it has licensed the ARM1136J-STM processor. Since 1998, Toshiba has licensed the ARM7TM, ARM9TM, and ARM10TM family processors for numerous applications ranging from mobile communications to consumer electronics. The agreement includes an option for Toshiba to license other ARM11 family processors.

NetFront Wins Software Award

ACCESS Co., Ltd., a global provider of mobile content delivery and Internet access technologies, today announced that its NetFront(R) Internet browser for Pocket PC which includes JV-Lite(TM) 2, a Sun authorized Java virtual machine, has been selected as a winner in Pocket PC Magazine’s Best Software Awards 2004 competition. NetFront was declared the overall winner from among eight other products in the “Browsers and Web Utilities” category by a Pocket PC Magazine global panel of experts.

Mobile Phone Makers Rush To 3G

Foreseeing global demand for new WCDMA phones will be worth more than 30 million units next year, world leading mobile phone makers, including Nokia, Motorola, Sony Ericsson, and Siemens as well as domestic manufacturers began making a big push into the 3G handset market to take lion?s share. Mindbranch Asia Pacific, a market research firm, forecasts that the number of new subscribers to 3G wireless communication service will reach 38 million worldwide next year generating a new demand for more than 30 million units of handsets.

Habbo Hotel Coming to Japan Mobile

Habbo Hotel Coming to Japan MobileFrom the Tokyo Game Show, in which long-time Tokyo mobile entrepreneur Neeraj Jhanji, builder of the first (and probably only) IM i-mode client for AOL, provides WWJ subscribers with an exclusisve look at his Until Now Very Quiet Plans (indeed, a working demo) to create a mobile version of the globally überpopular Habbo Hotel community service… er… site… or whatever it is. OK — it’s a networking community for digierati burnt out on traditional RPG shooters. In any event, Habbo’s mobile potential is huge (we think) and Neeraj is likely one of the few who can make it happen.