Stories about: KDDI

Google's head of mobile services is looking for your trust.

Japan's largest annual IT show, Ceatec, begins on Tuesday and is expected to provide a platform for the country's technology vendors to showcase their latest products and prototypes of devices yet to go on sale.

A fuel cell technology that will offer a quick fix for dead or dying mobile phone batteries looks as if its going to be available for millions of people for the first time in the world in Japan in 2007, Japan's two biggest mobile communications carriers said Wednesday at the Wireless Japan 2005 Expo.

MCI is providing a direct connection between its commercial Internet backbone and Moonv6 , the world's largest test bed running IPv6, an upgrade to the Internet's main communications protocol.

Multinational companies have seen them come and go -- Concert, Unisource, Global One and a handful of other global networking ventures. Now a new one is about to be born, following BT Group's agreement on Monday to acquire Infonet Services.

Japanese cellular carrier KDDI Corp. will begin trials next year of a system that allows cell phone users to make credit card purchases online or in stores using their mobile handsets, it announced this week at Ceatec 2002. The carrier is the first in Japan to announce plans to trial the service, which is already entering commercial use in South Korea.

Network operators, handset makers and IT companies are lining up to back a new industry group that has been formed to drive the development of standards for mobile telecommunication services and guarantee interoperability between mobile products and services.

Japan's KDDI has begun trials of a new mobile router developed by Cisco Systems KK, the Japanese unit of the U.S. networking hardware giant, that could make possible a data communications service that combines third-generation (3G) cellular and wireless LAN.

The Japanese government and a group of the country's major universities and electronics and telecommunication companies are considering jointly developing a portable terminal that allows users to access digital broadcasting, wireless LAN and 3G (third-generation) telecommunication networks, a government official said Monday.

Japan is expected to have 2 million subscribers to 3G (third-generation) mobile phone services by the end of 2002, market analyst The Yankee Group predicted in a recent research note.

Japan saw the number of wireless telephone subscriptions jump 13.9 percent in 2001 to end the year at 72.8 million users, according to data from an industry group, the Telecommunication Carrier's Association (TCA).