From back water to tsunami: will DoCoMo's i-mode, wildly successful in Japan, translate to other Asian markets? (Wireless Internet).(NTT DoCoMo)(Statistical Data Included) The future of mobile phone services is on view in Japan right now. There, more than 40 million people use Internet-ena...
d Barai is connected to NTT Docomo, a Japanese mobile provider. You can use it to pay your monthly phone bills, then spend reward points online and offline. It isn’t very widespread yet and only available in Japanese, so it’s probably only worth considering for those with Docomo as the...
Arch-rival Samsung’s mobile presence in Japan is very small barring the occasional burst of promotion from Docomo and KDDI, which usually remove the manufacturers’ logos along with much of the individual brand cachet they may have. And domestic phone makers have struggled to compete on ...
In 1995, sales ofpagers were boomingamong Japan’s teenagers, and NTT Docomo’s decision to add the heart symbol to its Pocket Bell devices let high school kids across the country inject a new level of sentiment (and cuteness) into the millions of messages they were keying into telephones e...
of the Japanese providers, and you can change your plan on a monthly basis. Your Japanese cell phone number will use the SoftBank network (one of the major cellular providers in Japan—formerly Vodafone), and you can make and receive calls, send and receive texts, and use data, of ...
We live in the age of the internet, and the Japanese people became accustomed to the web long before anyone else. The global mobile internet revolution of February 22, 1999, came with Docomo’s i-Mode, which started from Japan. So one can assume that the average Japanese consumer surfs th...
GCHQ intercepted nearly 100,000 keys for mobile phone users in Somalia. By June, they’d compiled 300,000 … A top-secret NSA document asserted that, as of 2009, the U.S. spy agency already had the capacity to process between 12 and 22 million keys per second for later use against su...
pigeons in plunging elevators to how to solve the problem of very clearly expressing that one is joking in written text. One suggestion made by Anthony Stentz was “How about using * for good jokes and % for bad jokes? We could even use *% for jokes that ar...
theuseofmobiledevicesasameansofpayment isperhapsthebiggestdisruptionthebanking industryhaseverseen. Asmobiledevicesmorphintowallets,they provideanewavenueofgrowthforbanksin aslowlyrecoveringglobaleconomy.However, technologicaladvancementshaveopenedup themobilepayments ...
What I try to do: Use a PC with hyperterminal to connect to another GSM phone in data mode using a samsung S on my side. What I have working so far: - Can connect to the phone using hyperterminal and give AT commands, eg the command ATI reply with Manufacturer: SAMSUNG...