i-mode

Its most recent innovation, a breakthrough called i-mode, allows customers to access the Internet via their cell phones, turning the wireless Internet into a reality.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001

Its most recent innovation, a breakthrough called i-mode, allows customers to access the Internet via their cell phones, turning the wireless Internet into a reality.

THE NEW MARKET LEADERS Fred Wiersema 2001

Is this i-mode mobile phone the only innovation that you can point to?

Liquidity Trap or Statism Trap?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

It would also require a heck of a lot more work than bald assertion to support the premis that "Japan has become less innovative and more risk-averse" over the last ten years; have a look at i-mode mobile phones and tell me they aren't innovative.

Liquidity Trap or Statism Trap?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

Big attempts to export services have largely failed: NTT DoCoMo Inc., the country's leading mobile-phone operator, led an expensive international push over roughly the past decade to market its i-mode brand mobile Internet system abroad to global operators such as O2 PLC, a unit of Telefónica SA of Spain.

Japan's Gree Plays Global Game Juro Osawa 2011

“ "Japan has become less innovative and more risk-averse" over the last ten years; have a look at i-mode mobile phones and tell me they aren't innovative.”

Liquidity Trap or Statism Trap?, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

The closed operating system of the iPhone also limits NTT DoCoMo from pre-installing some of its applications—including its e-wallet, which allows consumers to pay for merchandise with their smartphones, as well as its i-mode email service—which Mr. Yamada said are important for Japanese customers.

NTT DoCoMo Still in Talks With Apple Over iPhone Launch Lorraine Luk 2011

We want to make our "i-mode" mobile phone Internet system an open application platform.

DoCoMo Aims to Reshape Itself to Maintain Lead 2010

Currently i-mode applications are provided by companies and there's little room for individual content developers to participate.

DoCoMo Aims to Reshape Itself to Maintain Lead 2010

And Japanese users, thanks to galakei culture that has long had services that charged small fees, such as "i-mode," are used to paying for their applications.

Japan iPhone Craze Attracts Global App Developers AP 2010