Seems that docomo is about to release an open version of their i-area
service. Can someone describe some of the i-area guidelines/details in
English for us? A Japanese pdf is available at the links below. Curious
to know if somehow an i-mode user can "discover" your independant web
content associated with a particular location. How does that work? Thanks,
Al
This is from their corp website:
--- NTT DoCoMo, Inc. announced today that it has released "open i-area"
service guidelines, available in Japanese on the company's website at
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/p_s/imode/iarea/open.html.
"open i-area" allows any information service provider to supply content to
i-areaTM users. "i-area" is a feature of DoCoMo's service, delivering
weather, dining, traffic, and other types of information accessed from 482
separate areas throughout Japan. Since i-mode base stations can
automatically recognize a subscriber's location, information is organized
according to the dialing area in which the handset is being used. This
enables users to search locations quickly and easily without having to
handle vast amounts of information about unrelated areas.
Up until now, only official information service providers selected by DoCoMo
were allowed to provide i-area content via i-mode portal sites. The open
i-area service lets anyone relay i-area information to users through i-mode
server centers. Users will be asked to reconfirm their location before prior
to accessing unofficial i-area sites. DoCoMo will start providing this
service as soon as i-mode centers have been modified.
The guidelines include basic specifications for i-area content, DoCoMo's
policy on open i-area service, an i-area map that shows area division and a
description of locations in these specified areas.
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/p_s/imode/iarea/open.html
an old link I found in keitai-l:
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/i/iarea/main.html
Received on Mon Feb 25 06:57:36 2002