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Trend Watch: PDF viewer is available on mobile phones now!
This Month’s Top Stories:Mediarag starts providing on-demand music service to G-Book Alpha subscribersJapan ranked the top in information technology score among 23 countriesEZ Web and Vodafone Live to access the bestseller reference book, family health directoryLaw on operating businesses of PHS and RFID is relaxedMobile handsets sales drop in 2004 and will recover in 2005Pioneer to launch new HDD-based "CYBER NAVI"Vodafone develops prototype for receiving digital broadcastingTomy, Takara and Index to establish new venture to provide mobile contentsNTT AT releases middleware for developing video computer telephonyYoung male users are trendsetters of mobile handsets with new function, survey saysDoCoMo users shop with Mobile Wallet once a weekOracle develops lightweight database management software for mobile communicationiMapFan to provide PDF map contents to 901iS usersMusic copyright royalty increased because of the popularity of full-length song deliveryKabu.com starts offering PDF format contentsBandai Networks will start to offer PDF contentsAdvanced Media developed voice input solution using mobile handsets@NetHome started location information service using au mobile handsetsMCPC will start the qualification system for mobile phone engineersYamato adapts a new system using Bluetooth mobile phonesKDDI will start new location information serviceExcite and Warner Music start to offer popular artist’s music videoKDDI will offer new analog television viewing serviceRemote control application for DVD recorder using i-Mode infraredBitwallet and Cybird jointly develop marketing businessKDDI adapted ACCESS movie playback software and mail applicationsVodafone enhances Automatic Image Conversion serviceIndex will make a third party allocation of sharesMobile contents market was 461.6 billion yen, survey sayseAccess and NIFTY agree to work jointly on the commercialization of the potential MVNO business
Statistics: recent statistics for the Japanese mobile market.