WWJ Editors, 1 November 2006
NTT DoCoMo has announced new terminal specifications, developed jointly with Intel Corporation, that will enable mobile phones to be customized with additional desired operating system or application. The specifications provide an open domain, which is separate from the phone’s default domain containing the preinstalled operating system and applications. A controller enables switching between the domains. The open domain will enable a company, for example, to install an original browser and scheduler, and set an internal security policy for the terminal while individuals will be able to install their own personalized game software.

Pelephone will report tomorrow that it passed the 180,000 customer mark for its third generation (3G) services at the end of October, TheMarker has learned. Yesterday, Partner reported that it had 219,000 3G subscribers at the end of the third quarter of 2006. The company estimates that since then, it has added another 12,000 customers to its advanced network services, and now has reached over 230,000.

Summary: Lessons on how to market online, courtesy of the Sprint Ambassador program.

The e-mail from Sprint came right to the point:

From: service@ambassadormail.sprint.com

Subject: Sprint Disconnection Notice

Hi,

Thank you for your partic […]

Yahoo, 31 October 2006
Sierra Wireless and Tomen Electronics Corp. today announced they have signed an agreement that designates Tomen as the primary distributor for all Sierra Wireless products in Japan, marking the formal entry of Sierra Wireless into the Japanese 3G wireless market. Under the terms of the agreement, Tomen will offer sales, integration support, and field application engineering support for all Sierra Wireless products in Japan, including both the AirCard and embedded module product lines.

PRNewswire, 31 October 2006
CELL Co. Ltd, the leading developer of mobile content in Japan, announced today that it has signed a distribution deal with Shockwave.com to bring CELL’s most popular mobile games to the US market. Shockwave.com will distribute CELL’s games through its live Shockwave Minis offering available to Verizon Wireless customers on select Get It Now-enabled phones. This is the first time CELL games will be available to US customers.

Reuters, 31 October 2006
Japan’s antitrust watchdog has questioned new mobile phone operator Softbank Corp. about its sales tactics, a Softbank spokesman said on Tuesday. Officials from the Fair Trade Commission met with Softbank’s wireless unit on Monday to ask for an explanation of new discounts and sales tactics, the spokesman said, declining to elaborate further. The Sankei Shimbun reported the FTC was examining whether recent sales campaigns launched by Softbank are misleading to consumers.

Mobile ESPN was yet another victim of the “value dilution syndrome” – sports content and voice diluting each other’s value proposition and weakening the focus created by the strong branding. Though ESPN Mobile was positioned as a sports offering yet the uptake was driven by voice – in reality, the sports content was only a secondary service to mobile voice.

New developments in Home Phoneline Networking (HomePNA) technology will give the market a boost, and…

You unlock this door with the key of imagination. Beyond it is another dimension - a dimension of sound, a dimension of sight, a dimension of mind. You’re moving into a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You’ve just crossed over into the Twilight Zone.
Motorola announced today broader […]

Jeffrey Silva of RCR News says after six months, the FCC has put Cyren Call’s plan for sharing 700 MHZ out for comment:
Six months after receiving Cyren Call’s plan for a public-safety wireless broadband network the private sector would build and share with first responders, the FCC is now asking for public comment on […]

If you visit the Mobile & Devices Developer Center you’ll see a new page (similar to the Flex Developer Center page) with a well-organized contents.
You can now simply access to samples, quick starts, donwloads, communities and the cool “Sell your Content” section :

Today you can sell your Flash Lite applications and content to Verizon Wireless customers in the United States, and soon for consumers using Nokia handsets in the US and other regions.

Over at Howard Rheingold’s fabulous blog is another mention of Henry Jenkins Howard says Henry Jenkins has posted on his blog about the paper he and his colleagues have written for the MacArthur Foundation, about participatory culture and media literacy….

Via Techsoup a warm up overview on a Nokia whitepaper due to be published at the end of the year on mobile gaming. Here is something I pulled which I thought to be interesting. Three interesting aspects about current consumer…

Light hearted, insightful, useful I liked number 5 It forces old media to change I love change. It’s sometimes frustrating, but it’s a fact of life in business—change or die. With lots of young, talented, caffeine-filled programmers cranking out daily…

In a networked society, people are increasingly forming knowledge communities to pool information and work together to solve problems they could not confront individually. We call that collective intelligence Henry Jenkins speaking at the Serious Games Summit…