Thursday, June 1, 2006



eMobile Completes Additional Equity Financing. WWJ Editors, 31 May
eMobile, a subsidiary of eAccess Ltd., announced today it has successfully completed another round of equity financing with an additional 27.3 billion yen new capital. Following this transaction, the total paid-in capital (capital shares and capital reserve) of eMobile will reach 143.2 billion yen (capital shares: 71.75 billion yen), and eAccess' ownership in eMobile will be 46.2%. Together with the recent announcement of the project finance transaction of 220 billion yen, eMobile has secured a combined equity and debt capital of over 360 billion yen. The total capital raised should fully satisfy the funding requirement of eMobile's business plan, according to a company statement released today. [Wireless Watch Japan]
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Windows Live Messenger for DoCoMo. MarketWatch, 1 June 2006
Microsoft Corp. will release a version of its Windows Live Messenger application for use on NTT DoCoMo mobile phones "very soon," sources at Microsoft say. Windows Live Messenger is Microsoft's online chat program, which competes with a similar offering from Yahoo Japan Corp. The Japanese mobile version will allow real-time chat with other users on PCs or phones, access to buddy lists, and a "wake-up" feature that will send e-mail to a user's phone when friends want to chat. [Wireless Watch Japan]
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