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Verizon Wireless is rolling out service in the U.S. based on Qualcomm's BREW virtual machine platform. The technology, already used by mobile operator Korea Telecom Freetel (KTF), allows software developers and carriers to provide a wide range of new mobile data applications and coordinate billing and payment. For the first time, American consumers will be able to use phones to download software in much the same way they now do on their PCs. One of the most popular applications is expected to be sophisticated games that users can play off-line. To promote the service, Verizon is selling Sharp...
...consultant for Strand Consult, sees changes ahead that bear resemblance to the Korean model. By year's end, Verizon, which also uses CDMA technology, is expected to offer a service that combines EV-DO's higher speeds with BREW's programmable technology. "Verizon's adoption of the brew virtual machine platform is expected to revolutionize the U.S. mobile data market," Nielsen says. And to further emulate South Korea's formula for success, the company recently announced a strategic partnership with Microsoft that will allow users to forward Hotmail from their PCs to their mobile data phones. Microsoft has already signed...
...picks up not long after the first one ends. Superheroes have been outlawed and ostracized. Pacifying the masses with airhead pop groups and infotainment, criminal mastermind Lex Luthor has secretly taken control of the U.S. behind a virtual-reality President. Batman, thought dead by the rest of the world, rescues various imprisoned heroes like The Atom, who controls his height from sub-atomic size to colossus, The Flash, who can run to the other side of the world in less than a second, and Plastic Man, who turns himself into any shape he desires. Together they battle not only Luthor...
...network of tunnels. If action isn't your bag, you can try a real-life simulation like SimCity. It's really "a management sim[ulation]," says Bodman. You are "town planner, chief executive, deity even," supplying roads, housing, electricity, employment. The exhibition's section on The Sims, the virtual dollhouse bought by more women than men, shows original designs for characters and decor, as well as artwork by painter Ocean Quigley, who has worked on the series. One of the exhibition's objectives is to highlight the role of the artists behind the games. Commentators don't often talk about...
CYBERWALKABOUT For those who can't make a trip to Nagasaki in person or just want to preview what's ahead, the Nagasaki Interpreters Association has designed a virtual tour with photographs and descriptions of all the major tourist destinations and larger festivals...