TrendWatch: Toyota offers next-generation telematics service, "G-BOOK ALPHA"

• Excite establishes new community site where users share dailies
• ACCESS' NetFront Mobile Content Viewer selected for Adobe GoLive CS 2
• NTT Solmare and Shogakukan begin offering popular comic books for i-mode users
• Sourcenext introduces new utility software for music data
• JTB, Bandai Networks and Kadokawa Digix start new digital book content campaign
• Business solution for IP phone system for Docomo's N900 iL
  
• KDDI and Excite start joint portal site for both mobile phones and personal computers
• Avex starts researching on high quality online music delivery system
• NTT Communications starts photograph/movie storing service
  Secom markets new security system to schools
• Aplix to jointly develop the Doja/Java Platform for FOMA handsets with DoCoMo
• Toyota announces next-generation telematics service, G-BOOK ALPHA
• Excite starts advertisement business on its mail magazine service
• Toshiba offers service enabling users to schedule video recordings via a mobile handset
• Tokyo Metropolitan government will conduct a field test of information offering service using CC code
• Nikkei Radio tests Internet radio service
• Sanyo develops sound source LSI with 128 codes for mobile handsets
• Livedoor enters into the wireless LAN market
• Wacom develops compact-size digital pen for mobile handsets
• KDDI will invest 300 million yen into a new company that operates au auctions
• KDDI offers BREW application to overseas mobile companies
• Japanese mobile phone operators find no scientific evidence that radio waves affect human cells
• ACCESS will invest in a new company with Skyperfect
• Joint Promotion of New Credit-Payment Service using Mobile-Wallet Handsets
• Vodafone applies for 1.7GHz W-CDMA field test license
• Fair Trade Commission will judge interference of ring tone market
• Softbank receives license to operate field tests on 1.7GHz
  

Statistics: recent statistics for the Japanese mobile market.