The WAP-buster.
Part of a special section on the new landscape of the digital future, focusing on Asians leading the digital revolution. A profile of Keiichi Enoki of NTT DoCoMo, who led the team that pushed notoriously sluggish NTT into launching its i-mode Internet-enabled mobile-phone service, is presented. In...
| Publicado en: | Far Eastern Economic Review Vol. 163; no. 38; pp. 58 - 59 |
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| Formato: | Biography |
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Review Publishing Company Ltd.
September 21 2000
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