Tuesday, October 29, 2002

NEC serious about electronic perception (virtual keyboard) technology As often discussed with Dave and Barry from Motorola, the ability to type in mid-air is an interesting problem to solve. This story from Infosync shows how NEC are integrating solutions from Canesta who have interesting technology to enable light-projected "3D" images. 8:47:06 PM     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. [Mobilog] 8:24:30 PM     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. [Mobilog] 8:24:02 PM

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