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 ...

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...

Apple is in talks with Japan's top cell-phone company, NTT DoCoMo and with Softbank, the No. 3 carrier in the market. Reuters spoke to a source inside DoCoMo who said "the negotiations are not going smoothly, as Apple's conditions are extremely hard to meet." No surprise there. Apple likely wants si...

They say you need to know about 2,000 different kanji pictograms in order to read a Japanese newspaper. So how the hell is Apple going to adapt the iPhone’s virtual keyboard for modern Japanese? We’ll have the answer soon enough. “People familiar with the situation” tell The ...