Fierce battle of retrieval sites part2
The key of the easyness to retrieve the web-site is a computer system called retrieval engine. Adopting that of Google for the Internet access service "EZweb", KDDI will start the service which enables to retrieve PC sites and cellphone sites in a lump. They will expand the service because of the progress of the cellphones' function and the adaption of fixed sum of data correspondence.
According to the investigation of NetRatings, the number of users of Google, 12.85 million, is fewer than that of Yahoo, 26.59 million. The mobile product management director Deep Nisher said, "Cellphones is twice the number of PC. Mobile Internet may have the big growth hereafter." They have much expectation on the new service.
Fierce battle of retrieval sites part1
The competition of acquiring cell phone users is intensifying on the market of retrieval sites, which provide the service of searching the information in the Internet from keyword input by the user. By 18th this month, Google, the biggest major company of the retrieval site in the world, tie up with KDDI, and they announced to start the retrieval service for cell phone from July. Yahoo, which is a affiliated service of Softbank, also strengthens the cooperation with the Japanese corporation of vodafone acquired before. These companies expect the growth of business to display the ads related to the retrieval word, and plan to prepare a lot of services for ten million cell phones familiarized in Japan.
Real music
Real Networks will start the free trial service of fixed amount music distribution service "Real Music", which starts from 26th May in the plan. The free service will be executed from 19th to 25th May. Real Music is streaming music distribution service, and the fixed sum is 945yen per month. They prepare 75 stations by genre and other 75 stations by artists, and they distribute the music by streaming for 24 hours. At the first announcement, the service was planed to start from the beginning of May, but the official date to start the service was postponed until 26th May.
The free trial campaign is available after the registration of e-mail address and install RealPlayer free edition. In the trial term, there are 5 stations in which numbers of Gospelers, Chitose Hajime or Josijunigakubou is streamed. The format of encode is Real Audio 8 and the bit-rate is 64kbps. Windows XP and RealPlayer 10.5 is needed to use the service.
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Softbank mobile part2
The aim of Softbank is to reduce the cost of development, supply or distribution of information by the cooperation with vodafone, which has a hundred million of users in the world. As vodafone's side, the aim is to take the Japanese technique related to cell phone and the method of correspondence.
The president of Softbank, Mr. Son, said, "The reason why we use the group name as the brand name is that we have the preparation to wrestle with the business without receding". He indicate the thought of offering the general correspondence service in which broadband and fixed phone cooperate each other.
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Softbank mobile part1
Softbank announced that they cooperate with England vodafone group and establish the combined company for common development or supplying of mobile phone. The capital is eleven billion yen, and that is invested fifty-fifty. They will change the name of Japanese corporation bought out before to Softbank-mobile, and the brand name is Softbank.
The company will established by this summer. Each company will send four executive presidents to the company.