In response to Heimo's question concerning the lack of practical
applications for I-mode. Here is a table (from a report that I report) that
summarizes I-mode based Intranets currently under development by firms. Most
of this information is from articles in the nikkei shinbun, nikkei
communications, and a few interviews. the used car application is probably
better defined as a B2B web.
Table 11. Example of Mobile Intranets Currently Under Development
Industry Application
In-Home Medical Care Creating reports
Construction Work Scheduling
Universities Bulletin Boards for Students
Beer Distribution Inventory Management
Package Delivery Services Fleet Management
Freight Transportation Fleet Management
Vending Machines Inventory Management
Used Cars Car Auctions
There are also many contents that are practically oriented albeit their
traffic is low. For example, PIM's site provides personal information
management and apparently is successful as Yahoo Japan bought them. If you
want more information about practical sites (at least to some extent), see
the many articles that discuss current popular I-mode sites. These articles
always contain some of these sites.
Jeffrey L. Funk
Associate Professor
Kobe University
Graduate School of Business
2-1 Rokkodai, Nada, Kobe 657 Japan
telephone and fax: 81-78-803-6913
home phone: 81-798-74-2440
e-mail: funk@rose.rokkodai.kobe-u.ac.jp
mobile phone: 090-4906-3113
This could be when people stiff trying to say 'I am going to do some
usefull-services that save lives' will go to 'I will kill myself'. Has
anyone found any statistics of 'serious use' of mobile
internet-applications ( except email ) or has it been fun and
leisuretime applications, that have been the most used all around the
world?
-huima
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