Colorzip Japan

Interactive television programming is walking out the door and onto mobile handsets, pressuring Japanese TV broadcasters to adapt content and programming. Networks TBS and FujiTV are linking up with ColorZip Japan, a new server-based full-color bar-code technology that synchs TV broadcasts to related digital content for sponsored websites, music samples, contests and prize drawings.

We spoke with ColorZip Japan CEO Christopher Craney about how ColorCode is developing the Japanese market. Already in talks with telecom providers over having the code embedded onto new handsets, Chris discusses both corporate and individual marketing campaigns for this next-generation bar-code technology. We also interviewed the CTO, Evan Owens, who demonstrated several applications of their product.

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China sets up forum organization on future mobile communication beyond 3G

The organization, or namely Future Mobile Communication Forum, has 26 co-founders including nine multinationals, Siemens, Nokia, Ericsson, Philips, Shanghai Bell-Alcatel, Motorola, Samsung, France Telecom and NTT Docomo from Japan.

[...] Beyond 3G could provide high-quality image transmission at a price as low as fixed-line Internet, said Zhou Hong, vice president of Huawei. He said Huawei spent 15 percent of its annual sales on research and development of future technologies including Beyond 3G and the company is making great investment in the new technology.