Osaka / Tokyo / Washington / DC / San Diego / Mountain View / /
Company
Cubic Transportation Systems / NTT DoCoMo / All Nippon Airways / Nippon Telegraph and Telephone / Sprint / Sony / Coca-Cola / MasterCard / Xerox / FeliCa / /
Country
Taiwan / Japan / United States / Singapore / Luxembourg / /
Currency
USD / /
Event
Person Communication and Meetings / /
Facility
Keio University / University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center / /
IndustryTerm
wireless Internet service / Wireless payment systems / bank account / mobile communications / ubiquitous computing / regular i-mode device / automatic toll-collection devices / telecommunications firms / food display / consumer ubiquitous computing / exotic new devices / slower systems / Online users / wireless data service / food / state telephone / credit-card-like device / universal computing / use mobile communications / airline / digital rights management / online games / bank websites / company-sponsored communications / bank / Internet Security / executive tool / computing / cellular technology / cell-phone technology / e-cash / retail establishments / airline ticket / Web services / ordinary Web software / /
Organization
Chicago Transportation Authority / DoCoMo House / Keio University / University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for Communication / International Telecommunication Union / /
Person
MARCOS CHIN / CHARLES C.MANN / Tadashi Morita / Kenji Kohiyama / Mark Weiser / Akio Morita / Nobuo Hori / Takeshi Natsuno / Bruce Schneier / Mizuko Ito / /
Position
DRIVER / managing director for i-mode strategy / chief engineer / office worker / contributing writer / engineer / chip reader/writer / director / anthropologist / executive / chief technical officer / representative / director of i-mode strategy / longtime executive / /
Product
FeliCa / /
ProgrammingLanguage
TOM / DC / /
ProvinceOrState
Southern California / California / /
PublishedMedium
Technology Review / /
Region
Southern California / /
Technology
FeliCa chip / smart card / DoCoMo technology / digital cash / digital video / cellular telephone / FeliCa chips / cell phones / Flash / cell-phone technology / /
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