Editor’s Note
Editor’s Note

Editor’s Note

Seasons Greetings 2009

Wow.. seems yet another year just flew bye so we wanted to take a quick moment – with a warm rum and eggnog at hand – to pass along our very best wishes to all this holiday season.

Looking back over the year, it’s been one of the most exciting periods to date with increased global awareness and adoption following the same basic path as we’ve seen in Japan.

Leaping forward into 2010, year of the Tiger, we expect to see continued explosive growth in the mobile industry and, of course, plenty of interesting stories to follow along the way.

It’s been a hectic schedule for everyone so we do hope you take a well-deserved chance to relax and re-charge. As usual we have a few cool projects cooking here – so stay tuned – meanwhile, you gotta see our latest edition of The Mob Rulz!

Google Starts Promoting QR Codes

We stumbled across this little gem and had to pass along – seems that Google is getting all jiggly with the made-in-Japan QR Code tech. now finally. We found it at least somewhat ‘interesting’ they opted to use the iPhone – instead of Android – handset for the promo video. We paused the u-Tube clip embedded below and tried a few scans which returned link addys – mostly the same one – loaded site pages, on our Jpn handset, that were basically useless.

Intl Round Table on Radio Diversity

Representatives from Europe, the USA and Japan attended the International Round Table on Radio Diversity, held at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), to share the latest findings from private industry, national regulators, academia and research institutes. Mobikyo founders took part, along with other experts, to discuss Europe’s wireless communication schemes which are under increasing stress and fail to deliver the full competitive benefits that citizens expect from their radio regulators.

NTT Collaborates with Conexus

NTT Communications announced today that it has agreed with Conexus Mobile Alliance, a cooperative association of Asia-Pacific mobile operators, to deliver enterprise smartphone solutions that multinational corporations can use to support their expansion in the Asia-Pacific region. As part of providing these solutions, NTT Com also will offer consultation on applicable smartphones and tariff plans in countries/regions where Conexus members have a presence. NTT Com began providing Global Messaging solutions on April 1 of this year.

Latest DoCoMo Handsets – Version Up?

We made our way to the DoCoMo press conference held at the Tokyo Forum here yesterday afternoon to witness the wraps-off event of their Fall & Winter handset series. Under the tag line “Version Up” the lineup featured a total of 19 new designs on offer, with 5 Sharp units, 4 models by Fujitsu, 3 from each LG, NEC and Panasonic plus 1 Samsung. Considering the range of new devices – along with service announcements such as Auto-GPS for i-concier, MyArea Femtocell with exclusive AV contents for the home plus several Blu-ray capable units – there should, at least hopefully, be something appealing here for everybody. Check-out this Flash Gallery or see the full 80-minute presentation Video Here.