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NTT DoCoMo ties up with Google to improve mobile Net service

TOKYO, Japan - Omid Kordestani (2nd from L), senior vice president of Google Inc., Kiyoyuki Tsujimura (2nd from R), executive vice president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., and two other officials pose for a photo during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 24. The two companies agreed to form a partnership to improve NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile Internet service's search function.

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NTT DoCoMo to begin tests on electronic money for handsets

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Dec. 15 it will start tests Dec. 17 on new services that will enable ''i-mode'' mobile phone users to shop using electronic-money as shown in photo.

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NTT DoCoMo licenses i-mode technologies to France's Bouygues

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (R), president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., and Martin Bouygues (L), president and CEO of French mobile phone service provider Bouygues Telecom S.A., shake hands April 17 after announcing an agreement under which NTT DoCoMo will license and transfer its popular i-mode mobile Internet service technologies to enable the French firm to offer the services in France.

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Germany's E-Plus launches i-mode mobile phone service

FRANKFURT, Germany - A woman displays a cellular phone at a shop in Frankfurt of E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co., which launched an i-mode Internet-capable mobile phone service March 16 under a license agreement with Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc.

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NTT DoCoMo launches 3G mobile service

TOKYO, Japan - A woman shows a new mobile phone able to subscribe to the third-generation (3G) mobile phone service launched in Tokyo by NTT DoCoMo Inc. on Oct. 1. The service enables the downloading of video images and high-speed Internet access six to 40 times faster than the current Internet-capable i-mode handsets.

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NTT let i-mode users buy soft drinks, services without cash

TOKYO, Japan - A woman demonstrates in Tokyo on Sept. 3 how to buy a soft drink from a special vending machine using an ''i-mode'' Internet-capable mobile phone. NTT DoCoMo Inc. began a trial service to allow users of ''i-mode'' phones to buy soft drinks and get discount tickets for various services from special vending machines, called ''Cmo,'' by using i-mode terminals as a sort of prepaid card.

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3 firms unveil new vending machine linked to 'i-mode' service

TOKYO, Japan - A woman tries on a new type of automatic vending machine equipped with telecommunication terminals linked to NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s popular ''i-mode'' mobile Internet access service at Tokyo hotel Aug. 8. The machine, jointly developed by NTT DoCoMo, Coca-Cola (Japan) Co. and Itochu Corp., enables pre-registered i-mode users to buy drinks, vouchers and other services without paying in cash.

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NTT DoCoMo, Dentsu form venture

TOKYO, Japan - Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita (L), Dentsu Executive Akihisa Fujita (C) and NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa (R), shake hands June 1 after announcing the formation of a joint venture to help corporate clients advertise goods and services on Websites accessible via NTT's ''i-mode'' Internet-capable mobile phones. Fujita is to assume the presidency of the new company, D2 Communications Inc.

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I-mode

Japanese youth using new cellular phone service called I-mode, which allows users to surf as web, talk as phone, and e-mail as computer, etc.

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NTT Docomo I-Mode

A new NTT Docomo's seller phone system called I-Mode, which allows user to surf on the web, take and send photos to other phones, etc.

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Germany's E-Plus launches i-mode mobile phone service

FRANKFURT, Germany - A woman displays a cellular phone at a shop in Frankfurt of E-Plus Mobilfunk GmbH & Co., which launched an i-mode Internet-capable mobile phone service March 16 under a license agreement with Japan's NTT DoCoMo Inc.

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NTT DoCoMo ties up with Google to improve mobile Net service

TOKYO, Japan - Omid Kordestani (2nd from L), senior vice president of Google Inc., Kiyoyuki Tsujimura (2nd from R), executive vice president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., and two other officials pose for a photo during a press conference at a hotel in Tokyo on Jan. 24. The two companies agreed to form a partnership to improve NTT DoCoMo's i-mode mobile Internet service's search function. (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo licenses i-mode technologies to France's Bouygues

TOKYO, Japan - Keiji Tachikawa (R), president of NTT DoCoMo Inc., and Martin Bouygues (L), president and CEO of French mobile phone service provider Bouygues Telecom S.A., shake hands April 17 after announcing an agreement under which NTT DoCoMo will license and transfer its popular i-mode mobile Internet service technologies to enable the French firm to offer the services in France.

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NTT DoCoMo, Dentsu form venture

TOKYO, Japan - Dentsu Inc. President Yutaka Narita (L), Dentsu Executive Akihisa Fujita (C) and NTT DoCoMo Inc. President Keiji Tachikawa (R), shake hands June 1 after announcing the formation of a joint venture to help corporate clients advertise goods and services on Websites accessible via NTT's ''i-mode'' Internet-capable mobile phones. Fujita is to assume the presidency of the new company, D2 Communications Inc.

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NTT DoCoMo to begin tests on electronic money for handsets

TOKYO, Japan - NTT DoCoMo Inc. said Dec. 15 it will start tests Dec. 17 on new services that will enable ''i-mode'' mobile phone users to shop using electronic-money as shown in photo. (Kyodo)

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NTT DoCoMo launches 3G mobile service

TOKYO, Japan - A woman shows a new mobile phone able to subscribe to the third-generation (3G) mobile phone service launched in Tokyo by NTT DoCoMo Inc. on Oct. 1. The service enables the downloading of video images and high-speed Internet access six to 40 times faster than the current Internet-capable i-mode handsets.

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NTT DoCoMo to sell 3 handset models for 3G mobile service

TOKYO, Japan - Photo shows three handset models for the third-generation (3G) mobile phone service NTT DoCoMo Inc. will launch Oct. 1. The 3G service enables data transmission speeds of between 64 and 384 kilobits per second, six to 40 times faster than current i-mode handsets.

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NTT let i-mode users buy soft drinks, services without cash

TOKYO, Japan - A woman demonstrates in Tokyo on Sept. 3 how to buy a soft drink from a special vending machine using an ''i-mode'' Internet-capable mobile phone. NTT DoCoMo Inc. began a trial service to allow users of ''i-mode'' phones to buy soft drinks and get discount tickets for various services from special vending machines, called ''Cmo,'' by using i-mode terminals as a sort of prepaid card.

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3 firms unveil new vending machine linked to 'i-mode' service

TOKYO, Japan - A woman tries on a new type of automatic vending machine equipped with telecommunication terminals linked to NTT DoCoMo Inc.'s popular ''i-mode'' mobile Internet access service at Tokyo hotel Aug. 8. The machine, jointly developed by NTT DoCoMo, Coca-Cola (Japan) Co. and Itochu Corp., enables pre-registered i-mode users to buy drinks, vouchers and other services without paying in cash.

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NTT DoCoMo's 'i-mode' service suspended for 3 hours

FUKUOKA, Japan - Cellular-phone users in Japan are unable to use the ''i-mode'' Internet service of NTT Mobile Communications Network Inc. (NTT DoCoMo) for three hours March 28. Photo shows a cellular-phone screen indicating the i-mode service was suspended. All of NTT DoCoMo's 5.46 million mobile phones equipped with i-mode were unable to send or receive data through the service.