September 2002
Vodafone launches high volume pan-European tariff
Vodafone Group Plc today announces the launch of Eurocall Platinum, a new Eurocall option which has been developed to help reduce the cost of calls for high volume roaming customers. Eurocall Platinum builds on the success of Eurocall, Vodafone’s …
ViewSonic announces Pocket PC
ViewSonic has announced a handheld device running Microsoft’s Pocket PC 2002 operating system. The PCV35 is a lightweight, entry-level handheld with 64 Mb of RAM, a 300 Mhz XScale processor, 240 x 320 colour LCD and lithium ion battery.
In addi…
MMJ: Japanese market update 30/09/2002
As promised, NTT DoCoMo continues to advance it strategy of rolling out i-Mode and ‘i-Mode-like’ services around the world. To-date, it has helped launch services in Germany, Holland, Belgium, Taiwan, and soon France as well.
It will be some ti…
DoCoMo suffers negative sentiment
Shares in NTT DoCoMo Inc, Japan’s biggest wireless carrier, fell on Monday as the market digested a report it would sharply cut its subscriber target for advanced third-generation services, the latest in a string of bad news.
Cash-U expands into content provisioning
Cash-U, provider of the Pecan development and deployment platform for wireless games, has expanded its product range to support mobile content provisioning. The Multimedia Provisioning System (MPS) can be used to deliver ringtones, icons, EMS, Nok…
EMI launches mobile music video
Music publisher EMI and mobile entertainment provider Wireless Entertainment Services (WES) have premiered a music video on a wireless handset for the first time. The companies showed a video from EMI’s new signing ‘Firestorm’ as part of Nokia’s l…
Nokia wins Vodafone Ireland 3G contract
Ireland’s leading mobile operator, Vodafone Ireland, and Nokia have signed an agreement for the supply of Nokia’s W-CDMA 3G solution. Deliveries begin in October, and under the agreement, Nokia will provide both 3G core and radio-access network eq…
PalmSoure unveils new HQ
PalmSource, the software licensing business of Palm, Inc., has used the opening of its new headquarters to host a showcase of Palm OS technology. The event was attended by senior PalmSource executives, around twenty exhibiting software partners, p…