HONG KONG, April 24/Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China Mobile Limited, SOFTBANK and Vodafone have agreed to establish a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to promote the development of new mobile technologies, applications and services. The three companies expect the initiative will help to accelerate the commercial deployment of mobile internet services.

The three companies will use the JIL as a platform to develop mobile services and drive innovation and synergy in the industry to the benefit of their combined global customer base. The JIL will launch projects based on emerging technologies and market demand.

The JIL will focus on the rapidly growing areas of mobile internet services, such as mobile widgets*. Initially, the JIL plans to develop a platform for mobile widgets to encourage the development of innovative new services that can leverage mobile operators’ unique capabilities. The JIL also welcomes the co-operation of vendors and developers in the creation of new applications and services.

This move is expected to enable different widgets and applications to run seamlessly on different handset platforms and operating systems across different mobile operators, while safeguarding customer security, data privacy and billing systems. The development of a widget platform is expected to benefit both developers and users.
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GUANGZHOU, China, Feb. 28 /Xinhua-PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Mobile Entertainment, Inc.("Mobile Entertainment") today announced that the WAP version of a new game, the Ninth Heaven, has commenced online test runs on the cell phone networks of China Mobile and China Unicom. The Ninth Heaven is a massive multi-player online role-playing game (MMORPG) shaping a fascinating world of oriental wonders and martial arts. During the test run period, all game subscribers can log into the game free of charge. Upon formal game launch they are required to pay for the in-game gadgets if they wish to enhance their game characters. Such expenses will constitute a split of revenue from the cell phone operator payable to Mobile Entertainment. Currently Ninth Heaven is being test run on the WAP site of China Mobile and that of China Unicom. The test has been delivering critical data since the end of December 2007 to justify the practicality of Ninth Heaven going live on the new game portal of China Mobile, named "Yi Qi Wan Ba (or Let's Play Together)" ( http://mcard.gd.chinamobile.com/ ), and that of China Unicom, named "Xuan Mei Guangdong". "Our mobile game 'Journey to the West' has achieved continuous success on the China Mobile network as distributed by QQ. We are pleased to be working with China Mobile and China Unicom again in the development of this new cell phone game.Leer más

BARCELONA, Spain, Feb. 13 /Xinhua-PRNewswire/ -- China Mobile announced today that it is set to join LTE (Long Term Evolution) trials already being carried out by Vodafone and Verizon Wireless, a joint venture of Verizon Communications and Vodafone. The resultant three-way operator trials will focus on LTE FDD (the Frequency Division Duplex version of LTE) for use with paired spectrum allocations and TD-LTE (the Time Division Duplex version of LTE) as an evolution of current TD-SCDMA technology to enable the exploitation of unpaired spectrum globally. The trials are designed to explore the performance of LTE with different spectrum types as a potential next generation mobile technology. They will provide an opportunity to adopt a harmonised access platform with global scale and high performance inter-working with the existing technologies of all three companies. The availability of LTE FDD and TD-LTE systems will enable an effective and low cost solution for both paired and unpaired spectrum. Multi-mode devices will create regional and global roaming opportunities. This also raises the prospect of providing greater interoperability between different global operators offering customers greater convenience and seamless global roaming. The LTE technology, which is still being tested and standardised is designed to deliver mobile data networks with higher speeds and throughput performance, lower latency, global roaming, and improved efficiencies.Leer más