Mr Youshiro Hayashi, of NEC’s Marketing Division, said in a joint press release, To address market needs, WiredPocket incorporated its new feature, Navigation Control Module (NCM), giving content owners control over their mobilized content. We were impressed by this well-designed and easy-to-use navigation system. After carefully evaluating many alternatives, we decided to select WiredPocket as our value-added partner.
With an estimated increase in unit sales from last year’s 27 million to 66 million in 2005, Japan is WiredPocket’s primary market in the Pacific Rim.
Hassan Alam, WiredPocket CEO and chief scientist, explained: The success of NTT DoCoMo and others has created close to 30 million cell phones capable of web browsing in Japan today. While the user number grows at 50,000 per day, businesses are looking for an easy and manageable way to expand their e-commerce initiatives to these wireless users. So we see a strong market growth, first in Japan, and then over the rest of the world as companies increase their wireless web expansion.
