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I-mode Delay Spells Bad News For Euro Mobile Users
News NTT DoCoMo's decision to delay the European launch of its i-mode services is bad news for mobile users, according to experts who were looking to the Japanese giant for innovation. DoCoMo had previously said that it hoped to launch i-mode in Europe...
[July 18, 2001, 16:53]
I-mode Success Drives NTT DoCoMo Towards Early 3G
News NTT DoCoMo already operates the highly successful i-mode mobile service in Japan. I-mode's success will lead us to a smooth 3G launch," Ohtsuka told delegates at the Mobile Commerce World Europe show, held in London.
[September 26, 2001, 11:10]
I-mode Services A Hit With Europeans
News I-mode's foray into Europe appears to be meeting with early success, with the mobile information and entertainment service raking in 80 percent of its revenues from data income, according to a source close to the company.
[May 13, 2002, 17:06]
I-mode Finally Connects With The UK
News Précis: i-mode will be available to prepay and contract customers on both 2G and 3G devices. In other moves to simplify pricing, it is also changing the cost of the browsing bundles on O2 Active to be in line with the i-mode pricing.
[September 30, 2005, 11:40]
MmO2 To Offer I-mode In Europe
News mmO2 has announced it's signed with NTT DoCoMo to offer the Japanese giant's i-mode mobile Internet service on its network. The operator will make i-mode available to its 22 million customers in the UK, Germany and Ireland using 2/2.5G and 3G...
[December 1, 2004, 13:30]
O2 Enjoys Early I-mode Success
News A quarter of a million customers have signed up for O2's i-mode service in the first six months since its launch, three-quarters of whom are now regular users, O2 announced on Tuesday. This rate of adoption made O2's i-mode the fastest-growing...
[June 7, 2006, 11:15]
European IT Forum: WAP Needs Lessons From I-mode
News Don't back i-mode to beat WAP in Europe is the unequivocal message from industry analyst IDC at the European IT Forum in Monte Carlo Tuesday. Only one of the GSM manufacturers supports i-mode and that's Nokia with the i-mode phone they sell in...
[September 12, 2000, 11:55]
Google To Power I-mode Wireless Searches
News The company, which operates wireless Web service i-mode, announced Tuesday that it has partnered with search engine Google. Before the deal was announced, i-mode customers could view about 30,000 Web pages, according to Alan Riter, president of...
[February 28, 2001, 10:46]
Toshiba Tests European I-mode Waters
News Furthermore, it's using a Japanese technology -- i-mode -- to do it. The TS21i is the first phone in Europe to use i-mode, an alternative to WAP for delivering content to mobiles, which has been in use in Japan for three years.
[March 13, 2002, 16:46]
O2 Launches I-mode In UK
News O2 launched the mobile Internet service i-mode in the UK on Monday, just under a year after signing up for the service with Japan's NTT DoCoMo. I-mode is already used by more than 50 million people in 22 countries around the world, according to O2.
[September 26, 2005, 17:20]
DoCoMo's I-mode User Base Hits 24.6m
News Japan's largest mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo has increased its i-mode subscriber base to 24.6 million as of 18 June, up by about 600,000 subscribers from the end of last month. Launched in February 1999, i-mode is a wireless Internet service...
[June 21, 2001, 9:45]
O2 Launches I-mode In UK
Talkback yea well for £3 a MB "i" think you can stuff it
[September 26, 2005, 17:59]
Is I-mode Coming To A Phone Near You?
News WAP could face the prospect of competition within Europe with the release last Thursday of free software that promises to create i-mode sites within minutes. The i-mode editor, created by Ireland-based software developer wapprofit.com, converts...
[October 25, 2000, 7:30]
O2 Launches I-mode In UK
Talkback So they're charging £3 per MB of content I'm sure you can access already, with an iMode capable phone at a cost of £2.35 per MB?
[September 29, 2005, 15:50]
O2 Launches I-mode In UK
Talkback What a non-starter - far too expensive. What a shame.
[September 27, 2005, 12:50]
O2 Launches I-mode In UK
Talkback A long overdue advance and a great asset. Pity it is being priced out of the market - even 50p a meg would be fairly high.
[September 27, 2005, 16:19]
Sun Technology Audiocasts Rapid-Fire Wireless 101
White Papers Know the differences between WAP and i-Mode, or CHTML and WML and XHTML? Technologies to be discussed include GSM, SMS, GPRS, 3G, WAP, i-Mode, XHTML, the Java 2 Platform, Micro Edition (J2ME), CLDC, MIDP, Bluetooth, SyncML, and VoiceXML.
[June 23, 2004, 0:00]
Rupert Goodwins' Diary
Blog O2 has launched its i-mode service. Networks distributing i-mode — or any mobile data — look exactly like networks distributing broadband data over most of their extent. So we go around the same old cycle — telco adopts a technology in the...
[September 30, 2005, 19:15]
Prank Leads To Fears About Mobile Security
News Japan's i-mode mobile phones were hit by a bizarre attack Tuesday which security experts warn may be just the first of many security worries for broadband mobile Internet. Hundreds of Japanese i-mode users were stung by a prank which forced phones...
[August 9, 2000, 14:58]
Attractive, But Frustrating!
Member Review I had the WAP11 (B-mode) router which worked pretty well for a long time. It is completely useless in 'Mixed' 802.11b/g mode (I didn't want to upgrade all of my NICs to the g spec and wireless-b printers *never* work with it), and Windows XP seems...
[March 26, 2004, 14:52]
