A couple of weeks ago we covered DoCoMo’s (NYSE: DCM) rebranding and new strategy...Wireless Watch Japan has a video of Masao Nakamura, President and CEO of NTT DoCoMo describing what…

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NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) released full year earnings for the period ending 31 March 2008 today. Net profits in the January-March quarter more than doubled to 114.7 yen billion ($1.38…

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If only it were that easy…Japanese network NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) has unveiled a new corporate logo (pictured, right), which it says will help stop its subscribers from switching…

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NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) is losing Takeshi Natsuno, the mastermind behind its hit mobile web service i-Mode, according to AFP, citing a source within the company. Natsuno, 43, is supposed…

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German mobile operator E-Plus is shutting down its i-Mode service as of 1 April, one of the last major European networks to abandon the Japanese import, TelecomTV reports. Germany’s third…

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This is an about-face for NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM), which has always sold on its extra data and content features: the Japanese operator will sell some stripped-down phones without data…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) may have lost its contract to be T-Mobile’s search partner in Europe last week, but apparently, it has won Japan’s mobile web battle, according to a Businessweek…

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Japan’s largest mobile phone operator NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) released its earnings for the nine months ending December 2007 today, which includes its third quarter results. From October through December,…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) have announced plans for a tie-up in Japan, reports Reuters. Google Search will “feature” on DoCoMo’s handsets (not sure if that’s on the…

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JR Tokai Express Research has conducted a survey into Japan on the attitude towards the iPhone. Japan is considered a tough market for Apple because it’s already a sophisticated market…

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We’re closed for the rest of the year, hence running on headlines until Jan 2: -- DoCoMo To Offer Google Services: Japan’s NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) is in talks with…

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When the news surfaced that Steve Jobs was talking to DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) president Masao Nakamura, it was widely assumed that bringing the iPhone to Japan would be a slam…

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SF-based video platform Kyte says it raised $15 million in a second round, officially putting a number on previously reported investments from Telefonica, (NYSE: TEF) Nokia, (NYSE: NOK) DoCoMo, (NYSE:…

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Having conquered the US and some of the European markets, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is gearing up to sell the iPhone in mobile-crazy Japan. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple…

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Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gunning for the US market, so too are Asian wireless firms. The lure: the potential that these players see in the country’s mobile internet…

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When someone from NTT DoCoMo, the Japanese operator that developed i-mode and is one of the trailblazers in mobile content, has something to say about mobile data business models, it’s…

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Operators NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) and KT Freetel will launch a new venture fund in Korea focusing on startups in the mobile and IT industries. Each company will invest 1.7…

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This is the bad news everyone wants...DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) has said that the rate of growth of its 3G user base will slow down because “fully three-quarters of its subscriber…

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The music-crazy Japanese now have another way to use their handsets to buy tracks and otherwise engage with their favorite recording artists: through their cameras. The mobile entertainment company Bandai…

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Now that O2 and Telstra have let the cat out of the bag about i-mode, news is leaking out about other markets where the DoCoMo-backed mobile Internet standard has not…

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Just after O2 said it was going to stop selling new i-mode handsets (but support the current crop for two years) Australian incumbent Telstra has announced it is ending the…

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Updated: This is official now, and O2 has said it would continue to support the service for the next two years but it would not launch any new i-mode handsets…

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DoCoMo has begun testing an experimental Super 3G system (also known as Long Term Evolution, or LTE), which it hopes will achieve a downlink transmission rate of 300 Mbps over…

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Japanese operators DoCoMo and KDDI have teamed up to develop “a system to notify customers of an imminent earthquake”, and Softbank is also working on a service. The systems will…

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NTT DoCoMo will invest about $10 million in Gobi Fund II, L.P, a VC fund operated by Gobi Partners in China. This fund will invest in startups “working on the…

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