Spain’s Telefonica launched a commercial I-mode service on Thursday, while Wind Telecomunicazioni SpA agreed Wednesday to become the exclusive provider of I-mode services in Italy, DoCoMo said in separate statements.
Nine teenagers have been arrested for luring timid men to secluded locations around Tokyo and robbing them, police said Thursday. The boys admitted to playing the badger game after reading a magazine article saying that such a trick was “lucrative” because few victims would report the affair to police when lured by women and forced to pay money.
A bus driver is in hot water after he terrorized passengers by reading and sending e-mail from his mobile phone while at the wheel of the moving vehicle, his employer admitted Wednesday.
A private high school teacher has been issued a reprimand after he kneed a student in the head after he had been sending e-mail during class, Sendai Board of Education officials said.
Struggling mobile-phone maker Sony Ericsson unveiled plans to streamline its operations, saying it would reduce its presence in North America and shed around 12% of its staff.
A climber luckily escaped death after falling over a 120-meter cliff when he was stopped by scrub just 18 meters below the edge.
