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KDDI to Launch EZ Navi Walk, a Full-scale Navigation Service

KDDI, Okinawa Cellular and Navitime Corporation are pleased to announce that they will launch ‘EZ Navi Walk’ at the end of October 2003. EZ Navi Walk is a full-scale navigation service for pedestrians that makes use of location information from GPS satellites. EZ Navi Walk has been developed from EZ Navi, and allows users to quickly measure the location of a mobile phone through GPS positioning enabling real time continuous display of their location. The service is equipped with voice guidance and other functions that can navigate users to their destinations.

Lucent Announces 3G Trial in Miami

Lucent Technologies today announced that it is working with AT&T Wirelessto deploy a third-generation (3G) W-CDMA trial network in the greater Miami area to evaluate mobile voice and high-speed data services. Lucent already has achieved several key milestones in the project — its first 3G W-CDMA deployment in North America — including the successful completion of a series of voice and data calls on the network.

Microsoft & Vodafone Partner on Standards

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates will today detail a partnership with mobile operator Vodafone to develop mobile web services standards. The standards are designed to allow PC developers to incorporate location and micro-payment functions into their applications. Through developing mobile web services standards the vendors expect developers to incorporate features of cell phone technology into PC applications.

CEATEC Japan: Mobile Phones Evolve in the Ubiquitous Era

The prime feature of the ubiquitous society is being able to access networks anywhere, anytime, and one of the leading roles in this society is being played by cellular telephones, which let users remotely control elements of lifestyle and entertainment, and link directly with people around the world through video and data communications. At CEATEC JAPAN 2003, visitors are experiencing the developing world of the cellular telephone.

Enfour Partners with Houghton Mifflin Company's American Heritage

Today Enfour Group rolled out a new language reference service featuring Houghton Mifflin Company’s AmericanHeritage(r) dictionary titles on Japanese mobile phone networks. This new mobile service – Comprehensive English Dictionary – takes the American Heritage(r) dictionaries into themobile content arena for the first time and services both Japanese and English speakers via official carrier menus.

J-Phone relaunched as Vodafone

Mobile phone operator J-Phone Co., a unit of Britain’s Vodafone Group PLC, on Wednesday changed its corporate name to Vodafone K.K. At a press conference in Tokyo, Darryl Green, Vodafone’s representative executive officer, president and chief executive officer, said, “This will be a good opportunity for Vodafone and its partner companies to widen the market to a global scale for their services.”