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Concept kit shown off

Video conferencing may have enhanced the workplace for the better, offering face-to-face communications on a global level but the whole thing hasn't ever been, well, sexy.

Japanese phone company DoComo showed off some nifty new phone charging technology at CEATEC 2011, which can supercharge a mobile phone in minutes.

Fans of all things wireless will be pleased to hear that the world's first 4G mobile phone network is on schedule to launch next year regardless of who backs it.

Japanese mobile phones are very hit and miss - some have fantastic (mostly network-related) services, yet are ugly as sin, while others look great but offer very little else.

Invasion of privacy or just another handy little tool?

Exclusive If we had a penny for every time we've covered the amazing new services and research coming out of Japanese mobile carrier NTT DoCoMo, we'd have the proverbial riches of Croesus.

Exclusive DoCoMo has admitted it tried and failed to strike a deal with Apple to sell the 3G iPhone in Japan.

Next week sees the start of the latest skirmish in Japan's increasingly bloody mobile phone war, with the arrival of the freshest handsets from market leader NTT DoCoMo.

Exclusive You may not have heard of them before, but tiny Japanese software house Eitarosoft is on the brink of something very big that threatens some very comfortable giants in the business.