Mobile Carriers and Credit Card Business: A Brief Study-Focusing on KDDI THE CARD
White Papers This white paper introduces credit card services offered by two mobile carriers in Japan, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI au, mainly focusing on the service by KDDI au. Recognizing the credit card business as a promising income source in the matured market...
[September 20, 2007, 10:30]
New QuickTime plays wireless video
News Apple also announced on Thursday that CDMA 2000 carrier KDDI, Japan's second-largest wireless service provider, has endorsed QuickTime 6.5 as a multimedia format on its network. Casanova said the KDDI deal comes as adoption of QuickTime 6 is...
[December 19, 2003, 12:35]
Google's search for mobile goes east
News The tech giant announced on Thursday that it is working with KDDI, the country's second-largest mobile-service provider after NTT DoCoMo, to provide a search service for mobile phone users in the Japanese market as of July.
[May 19, 2006, 9:35]
Toshiba lets mobiles run PC software
News Japanese carrier KDDI will debut the software in March. Electronics giant Toshiba said this week it has developed software that lets mobiles use programs stored on most home computers, a breakthrough that further erases the divide differentiating...
[January 20, 2005, 14:50]
Samsung launches rotating camera phone
News For example, Sony Ericsson recently announced the shipment of the A1301S, a handset featuring a 290-degree rotating camera lens, to Japanese mobile operators KDDI and Okinawa Cellular Telephone Company.
[June 5, 2003, 8:07]
Google to unveil 'Android' mobile-phone software
News Japanese wireless carriers KDDI and NTT DoCoMo are said to be heavily involved in what will be called the Open Handset Alliance, according to other sources. Google is ready to unveil a suite of software for mobile phones based on open-source...
[November 5, 2007, 7:49]
How Opera's business model works
Blog It's the default browser in KDDI's network. That will only be seen in Japan with KDDI, but it's not visible in statistics outside of Japan. In the Jon von Tetzchner Q&A we published yesterday, we had to leave out a bit of the interview because it...
[May 22, 2009, 12:59]
'Gphone' rumours hit fever pitch
News Google will probably partner with France Telecom's mobile-telephony division, Orange, and KDDI in Japan, said Stephen Arnold, author of The Google Legacy and a new book, Google Version 2.0: The Calculating Predator.
[October 25, 2007, 12:24]
Opera makes Web content push
News We have already been running content-pushing technology for a year at KDDI -- the second largest mobile operator in Japan," said Höck. Opera Software has developed an application for its Web browser that helps mobile operators to push content to...
[February 14, 2005, 13:40]
Seven wants a bite of the BlackBerry market
News Seven first managed a foothold, some years ago, in Asia to supply premium email to handsets through NTT DoCoMo and KDDI in Japan and SingTelGroup in Singapore. US corporate mobile phone messaging provider Seven Networks is expanding into Europe by...
[April 11, 2005, 10:10]
Europe gets Voice Command
News South Korean operator KDDI managed to sell two million downloads in ten weeks. Microsoft is upping the stakes in the battle for control of the mobile operating system market, with new software for PDAs and investment in research and development.
[March 7, 2005, 16:15]
Mobile-chip firm rides IPO wave
News In Japan and Korea, NTT DoCoMo, SK Telecom and KDDI are providing location-based GPS services and content. Shares of SiRF Technology, which designs global positioning chips for cellphones, jumped more than 25 percent on the first day of trading, as...
[April 23, 2004, 13:30]
Google maps out plan for mobile success
News In addition to European and US giants such as Vodafone, Telefonica and Sprint, Google also has partnerships with Japanese operators NTT DoCoMo and KDDI, India's Airtel and China Mobile. Google is aiming to make an impact in the mobile sector by...
[May 14, 2008, 8:40]
Intel Developer Forum - Wimax, HD laptop commitments
Blog Now Intel is investing with KDDI to enable Wimax in Japan. Paul Otellini has moved onto Wimax, which he says is an essential component of the next wave of ultramobile. Year ago, trials moving from fixed wimax to mobile.
[September 18, 2007, 17:30]
Google and Optus team up on cable project
News The consortium, consisting of Optus's parent company SingTel, Bharti Airtel, Global Transit, Google, KDDI Corporation and Pacnet, has selected NEC and Tyco Telecommunications to construct and install the system which is expected to be ready in the...
[February 27, 2008, 9:31]
Google helps lay submarine cables in Asia, Africa
News The consortium building the new intra-Asia cable has many of the same members as the consortium developed for the Japan-US cable, including Google, Bharti, SingTel, KDDI and Global Transit. Google is again joining forces with foreign phone...
[August 27, 2008, 11:29]
Tokyo gets mobile WiMax trial
News KDDI announced earlier this month that it will be setting up a network around Osaka. Japan's NTT DoCoMo is eyeing a WiMax network. The mobile operator has said it has applied for a licence from the Japanese ministry of Internal Affairs and...
[March 31, 2006, 17:50]
Symbian vs Android: How they square up
News The mobile operators in OHA are: China Mobile Communications Corporation, KDDI Corporation, NTT DoCoMo, Sprint Nextel, T-Mobile and Telecom Italia/Telefonica. With the announcement on Tuesday of the formation of the Symbian Foundation, the forces...
[June 26, 2008, 11:32]
What the future holds for Google's Android
News So far, KDDI and NTT DoCoMo, two of the largest carriers in Japan, are on board. Consumers shouldn't expect Google's new mobile phone software to revolutionise their mobile phone experience overnight — or anytime soon.
[November 6, 2007, 8:21]
