Monday, October 28, 2002

Camera-phone sales top 10 mln in Japan, paper says

Total camera-phone sales in Japan have topped 10 million units, with industry pioneer J-Phone leading the trend with accumulated sales of 7 million units as of Wednesday, the Nihon Keizai Shimbun reported. When J-Phone launched the world's first camera-equipped cellphones, which could take photos and send them via e-mail, in late 2000, it set off Japan's hottest telecoms trend since the rise of the mobile Internet. Plans to beef up sales of the camera-phones in the run up to the Christmas season by J-Phone and its larger rival and Japan's top wireless carrier, NTT DoCoMo Inc., will likely help revive dwindling sales of mobile phones in Japan's maturing cellphone market, the paper said in its online Friday edition.
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DoCoMo soars by tapping power of emotions

''In Japan, nearly one-third of the population already works, plays, and shops with wireless, continuously connected to a universe of data, services and other people. The force responsible is a young, visionary company, with a name that means `anywhere' in Japanese: DoCoMo.'' This quote shows just how pervasive DoCoMo is in Japan. In spite of its short life of a mere three years, it's already a major force in the country, with 30 million users. What is DoCoMo and why is this company so notable that a book should be devoted to it? The subtitle of John C. Beck and Mitchell E. Wade's book dubs DoCoMo a ''wireless tsunami,'' a moniker that is indicative of the influence of the company in Japan's moribund marketplace.
3:25:12 PM    comment   

KDDI To Provide Communication Svcs To Toyota Info Network

KDDI Corp. will provide a wide range of communications services to Toyota Motor Corp.'s new "G-Book" information network service. The move is aimed at increasing the use of KDDI's third-generation "CDMA2000 1x" mobile communications technology. As a part of its services to Toyota, KDDI will enable Toyota's "G-Book" users to connect to its 3G network for online services and to access the KDDI network center for data communications. Toyota's "G-Book" users will also be able to access the "G-Book" center via KDDI's IP-VPN (Internet Protocol Virtual Private Network). KDDI's 3G technology provides data transmission speeds of up to 144 kilobits per second.
3:24:05 PM    comment   

Japanese operators continue to win 3G subscribers

KDDI and J-Phone continue to expand their subscriber bases of next-generation services. KDDI, the second-largest mobile operator in Japan, announced that the number of subscribers for the carrier's third-generation (3G) services based on cdma2000 1x technology exceeded 3 million. KDDI is targeting to get 7 million 3G service users by the end of March 2003.
3:23:21 PM    comment   

Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing

In today's hyper-competitive world, your sales and marketing functions must yoke together at every level[~]from the core central concepts of the strategy to the minute details of execution. Harvard Business School professor Benson Shapiro on creating the customer-centric team.
3:15:10 PM    comment   

The Six Forces of Marketing Momentum

If you want your product to be more than a one-hit wonder, customers need to know that it has staying power. Here are six ways to help you convince them, according to Rob Ricci and John Volkmann in this excerpt from their book, Momentum: How Companies Become Unstoppable Market Forces.
3:14:04 PM    comment   



In Defense of the Boom. The rush to hang the Henry Blodgets of the world is rewriting history, obscuring what was great about the 90's and handing the economy back to the establishment. By Michael Lewis. [New York Times: Business]
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MIT Technology Review: The Palladium Paradox. David Weinberger. Although Microsoft touts Palladium as a way to keep computers virus free and to give users control over what information they give out, critics were quick to notice that it just so happens to be an ideal platform for the management of digital content... [Tomalak's Realm]
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NEC Ships Portable Projectors With Wireless Networking Capability. NEC Solutions America's MT60 Series can communicate from a PC to the projector through a wired LAN system or a wireless system via 802.11b. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
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Agere and Proxim Launch Ericsson Mobile Operator Wireless LAN. Ericsson is teaming with WLAN powerhouses Agere and Proxim to create an end-to-end data network that integrates public access cellular and Wi-Fi networks. [allNetDevices Wireless News]
2:45:31 PM    comment   



Scientists Shrink Computing to Molecular Level. Scientists have created what they say is not only the world's smallest logic circuit, but also possibly the smallest that could ever be made. By Kenneth Chang. [New York Times: Science]
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Interview: Accenture exec says company productizing some IP. James Hall details how Accenture can create assets to deliver solutions more quickly [InfoWorld: Top News]
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The new CTO. If you're stepping into a new IT executive post, beware that potential landmines can be set off by taking the wrong approach [InfoWorld: Top News]
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Palm unveils Tungsten handhelds. Devices will handle bigger apps, more data, integrated wireless communications [InfoWorld: Top News]
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