Educating the public about the pornography bill and legal challenges against UU Porno at the Constitutional Court. Socialization On 30th October 2008 the controversial pornography bill (UU Pornografi, text in Indonesian and English translation) was passed by the parliament. On 9th December 2008 pres...

Filed under: Toyota Motor Corp. (TM), Stocks to Buy With this morning's news that Toyota Motor Corp. (NYSE: TM) expects to lose $5 billion in its current fiscal year -- three times more than the $1.6 billion loss it originally predicted, this would hardly seem to be the time to be thinking about inv...

L’opérateur mobile japonais NTT DoCoMo a annoncé la fin de ses services 2G, utilisant la technologie PDC (Personal Digital Cellular, équivalant du GSM au Japon) pour la fin mars 2012. Il s’agit des services appelés Mova (service téléphonique vocal, lancé en mars 1993) et DoPa (service de ...

Though the States seem dead last when it comes to mobile technology, we sure hope we keep up with what the rest of the world might start doing with their networks. It took long enough to build out 3G networks when the rest of the world had already been enjoying it for quite some time, but now that t...

La régie publicitaire du portail i-mode et première agence de mobile marketing au Japon, D2Communications (D2C), a annoncé le lancement d’un nouveau produit publicitaire sur mobile. Il s’agit de publicité géolocalisée dans une rubrique appelée i-Area, sur le site portail de NTT DoCoMo qui...

For the average person, the prospect of controlling your mobile phone's music player and camera with a flick of the eye-balls is just a ridiculously lazy alternative to a swift finger jab or two. For the disabled, however, eye-controlled mobile tech opens the doors to a whole new world of produ...

A recent report from ABI Research highlights the rise of mobile Linux, estimating that 23 percent of the world’s smartphones will have a Linux operating system by 2013. It appears that much of that growth will come at the expense of Nokia’s Symbian, and that LiMo and Android will be the ...

AT&T, in conjunction with some 10-15 incumbent telecom carriers — British Telecom, Deutsche Telecom and NTT among them — is plotting to launch a Skype competitor, according to a research report issued this morning by ThinkEquity analyst Anton Wahlman. This is Wahlman’s theory for ...

Filed under: Cellphones What the heck is going on here? Despite the overwhelming popularity of gizmo-heavy mobile devices in Japan, working with megacarrier NTT DoCoMo must be a losing proposition for many of its manufacturing partners, because just days after Mitsubishi's announcement of its withdr...

NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile carrier in Japan is going to use Google search and email, calendaring and other services on its handsets that use the iMode network, according to a story that ran on the AP news wire. AP item is based on a Nikkei report. If true, this is a big shot in the arm for Googl...