Access hopes to win 30 percent of the market for mobile device operating systems by 2010, according to Tomihisa Kamada, chief technical officer and co-founder. Access hopes to achieve greater marketshare by integrating its application software with the Linux-based mobile phone operating system being developed by PalmSource. This would result in a mobile phone software stack capable of competing with Microsoft’s Windows Mobile OS in terms of integration level.
Pantech Group, South Korea’s No. 2 mobile phone maker, has signed an agreement to ship it’s second 3G model to KDDI in a deal pegged at $110 million. The A1406PT handset will be available in September targeting middle-aged and elderly Japanese consumers, Pantech said in a statement. The agreement comes six months after Pantech offered its A1405PT model, the first shipment to Japan by a Korean cellphone maker.
Radvision announced today the availability of its new PC-to-Mobile 3G solution. The solution transforms PCs into mobile handsets by opening a bi-directional channel for visual communication between 3G mobile devices and desktops. The PC-to-Mobile solution exponentially increases the 3G subscriber base to include PCs – immediately expanding 3G video call possibilities. “The PC-to-Mobile solution leverages the power of both PCs and 3G mobile devices to fuel 3G proliferation and enable subscribers to use any PC with a broadband Internet connection as an extension of their 3G mobile handsets, subscriptions and accounts.” said Alon Barnea, General Manager of Radvision’s Mobility and Service Provider Business Unit.
The WiMAX Forum, a non-profit organization comprised of almost 400 companies committed to the open interoperability of products delivering broadband wireless services, today named Dr. Hideo Okinaka of KDDI Corporation to its Board of Directors. As a strong contributor to the WiMAX Forum, KDDI’s addition to the board of directors is indicative of the overwhelming support from operators and wireless market leaders around the globe that WiMAX is the next evolution for delivering personal broadband services.
Consolidated financial results for NTT DoCoMo and its subsidiaries for the three months ending June 30, 2006. Operating Revenues were 1,218.6 bn JPY (up 2.7% YonY), operating income was 272.7 bn JPY (down 5.2% YonY), income before taxes was 274.4 bn JPY (down 22.4% Y on Y) and net income was 163.5 bn JPY (down 21.3% Y on Y). The significant dip in year-on-year returns is attributed to the company’s sale of Hutchinson 3G assets in the compared period of 2005. The analyst meeting live video cast will begin here shortly (WWJ subscribers log in to access mp3 audio of Q&A session with media, in English).
The good folks over at CIAJ (Communications and Information Network of Japan) issued a press item last week to announce results of their annual study on cellular phone use. According to CIAJ, “The study aims to capture on-going changes in the domestic mobile communications market and has been conducted since 1998.”
The study includes some interesting results related to actual usage of mobile Internet services, including email, music, GPS, mobile TV, e-wallets, number portability and more. The organization says they mailed questionnaires to 600 cellular phone users (male: 303, female: 297; by age group, under 20: 102, twenties: 101, thirties: 108, forties: 95, fifties: 95, sixties and above: 99) residing in the larger Tokyo and Osaka metropolitan areas from the end of March through April, 2006…
