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In the course of the past year NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa has guided his company -- and its I-mode mobile Internet service -- to virtual superstardom in the wireless world. Under his leadership, the wireless carrier has brought the Internet to millions of Japanese via their cellular phones, launched an ambitious plan to do the same for mobile phone users worldwide by partnering with foreign carriers, and is preparing the launch of the world's first third-generation wireless network. He is IDG News Service's Asian IT personality of the year.

Dulles, Va.-based America Online and Tokyo-based wireless giant NTT Mobile Communications Network (DoCoMo) will jointly develop wireless Internet services in Japan, according to sources. Each company would invest $US100 million in AOL Japan, and AOL Japan would become the DoCoMo exclusive fixed-line Internet service provider. AOL Japan will also receive preferential treatment on its i-mode wireless service, allowing subscribers to access e-mail and Web sites via smart phones.

The prospect is tantalizing. Imagine being able to access the Internet in much the same way that you do now--but from your cell phone. And not just for checking your e-mail while on the move, but doing serious browser-based stuff too: buying a book or CD, booking a flight, trading stock or just finding the location of the nearest Chinese restaurant or ATM. Or accessing your company's enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to check on the status of an order, expedite a shipment or approve a stack of purchase requisitions. Indeed, within the constraints of what can be displayed on a pocket-size screen, imagine being able to do anything that you currently do at the desktop--and some things that you can't, such as pointing your phone at a Coke machine to pay for a drink.

NTT DoCoMo Inc. plans to spend 26 billion yen (US$246.4 million) building a new research center for third generation (3G) wireless services, the company announced today.

NTT DoCoMo Inc., Japan's leading cellular telephone carrier, has applied to the Ministry of Posts and Telecommunications (MPT) for licenses to operate a next generation cellular network, it said in a statement.

Sony last week outlined its business plan for the coming financial year and vowed to continue corporate reform and push for ever tighter integration of the Internet and other network platforms with the company's core electronics businesses.

The Asian market is fast getting to grips with its internet endeavors. Our special report looks at who's doing what, and the implications for local online business.

NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc., Japan's leading cellular telephone network operator, is to invest in both an Internet-based bank being established by Sakura Bank Ltd., and online games retailer PlayStation.com (Japan) Inc., the company announced late today.

NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (NTT DoCoMo), Japan's largest mobile telephone network operator, is planning to get into the online banking game. The company said this morning it plans to invest 1 billion yen (US$9.4 million) for a 5 percent stake in a new Internet bank being established by Sakura Bank Ltd.

NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (NTT DoCoMo) announced Friday that subscriptions to its i-mode service, which offers basic text-based information services via cellular telephone, have hit 5 million.