Avery Dennison has created a new multi-media training tool called RFID 101. It appears to be targeting the labels industry. It is a CD that they will mail to you within 5 business days. It is a total of…

WWJ Editors, 31 August 2006
KDDI and Toyota have announced an update to the existing G-Book telematics service. A limited release of 7,500 new TiMO handsets, Toshiba’s 3G terminal otherwise known as the W44T11, will be available from October this year. WWJ has a video interview from the Tokyo Motor Show in 2003 demonstrating the original service and it would appear at first blush their new offering is at least somwhat improved. Full specs and dedicated site links after the jump.

Yomiuri, 31 August 2006
Vodafone Japan K.K. announced Thursday it would charge its customers 2,100 yen to cancel their contracts when transferring their phone numbers to different service providers. With Vodafone’s announcement, all three major cell phone firms have set their cancellation fees at 2,100 yen. Starting Friday, Softbank will accept applications for number transfers from the other two firms at Vodafone shops, by phone or on its Web site. The mobile number portability system will officially begin on Oct. 24.

Most developers in our market sector are rather small shops with a rather strong brand identity-its not just Binary Clock for Palm OS, its a Tamoggemon product..
And indeed, seeing customers as a one-shot is a very, very shortsighted move. While supporting existiung customers with newsletters, forums, FAQ databases and demos is a expensive move, it […]

WWJ Editors, 31 August 2006
KDDI has published its Annual Report to Shareholders for the year ended March 31, 2006. In the Presidents message to Shareholders, President Tadashi Onodera is pleased to report that KDDI’s goals continue to expand while the company cultivates new business domains based on the watchwords ‘Strategy and Speed’, while KDDI, as the Ubiquotous Solution Company, contiues to ‘Take It to the Next Level.’ Specific actions towards an enhanced structure with a view to propelling future business expansion include: the merger with the three TU-KA firms; and the merger with POWERDCOM Inc. based on a comprehensive alliance in telecommunications services with Tokyo Electric Power Co. and an agreement on the provision of integrated FTTH services.

WWJ Editors, 31 August 2006
Fujitsu has announced their first hard disk drives that use perpendicular magnetic recording (PMR) to deliver enhanced storage capacity. The company unveiled its MHW2 BH series of 2.5-inch hard disk drives for mobile PCs which will go on sale to the industry in October this year. The two PMR models are the 160GB MHW2160BH, which Fujitsu claims has the industry’s highest storage capacity for a 5,400 rpm HDD, and the 80GB MHW2080BH. The company aims to ship six million units of the two models.

I’ll be at CTIA on Tuesday the 12th. If you’ll be there and want to chat, please drop me a note.

Skype today announced the release of two new cordless VoIP phones from Philips and NETGEAR that eliminate the need for a running computer, allowing Skype users to make and receive calls without a PC. “We are broadening our reach…

The San Francisco Examiner's Edward Carpenter reports that the San Francisco Airport (SFO) will spend the next six months trialing RFID-enabled luggage tags for checked baggage. According to SFO project manager Gerry Alley, the chip will carry each passenger's…

NetworkWorld reports that University of California, San Diego researchers last week tested networking technologies designed to respond to a terrorist attack, in a drill called Operation College Freedom. “This full-scale exercise is the culmination of a three-year, $4 million…

CNET recently ran an editorial on how the mobile internet has changed and what will happen. Their most interesting conclusion(IMHO) was that users want to access the same web sites they have on the PC, and want to get the same navigation experience.
This reminded me of a discussion I had with a former IT manager […]

I finised a new article for WDDJ on Flex 2 :

Building Loosely Coupled Flex 2 Components article

Most of you know how important is to break your Flex 2 application into small logically pieces.
Flex 2 allows developers to break into small external pieces the project, creating separated MXML files and maintain them separately.

The Building Loosely Coupled Flex 2 Components article explains and guides you through the the process of dividing Flex application
into logic modules designing MXML components using custom event models.

The Building Loosely Coupled Flex 2 Components article will be out with the next issue of the WDDJ magazine !

Now this is a first - us quoting the Daily Mail. But I first became aware of this particular story whilst listening to BBC radio 1. The news item was that a Welsh postman had been suspended from work for…

In what is being seen as a new development in the field of healthcare, RFID might soon help diabetes patients control their blood sugar in a better way. Cambridge Consultants along with Philips Semiconductors have come up with a…

Nokia and gate5 AG today announced that an agreement has been signed for Nokia to acquire gate5. gate5 is a leading supplier of mapping, routing and navigation software and services. By acquiring gate5, Nokia will offer consumers maps, routing, navigation and other location based applications on its mobile devices.
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