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To: Charles Tutt who wrote (53943)5/2/2003 8:37:35 PM
From: DiViT   of 64865
 
Perhaps this was it... Sun shines all over Korea

By Ben Charny
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
May 2, 2003, 4:51 PM PT

When it comes to cell phones, South Korea is now officially Java country, and that could be trouble for cell phone chipmaker Qualcomm.

The Asian nation's Ministry of Information and Communication last week amended its cell phone standard to include a version of Sun Microsystems’ Java software, a Sun representative said Friday.

Wireless Internet Platform for Interoperability (WIPI), as the standard is known, was adopted by all of Korea's major carriers in January. The first commercial WIPI services are due by the end of next year.

The Ministry chose Sun's Java 2 Micro Edition (J2ME), which hundreds of millions of cell phones now use to download software such as ring tones and games.

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