Vodafone, China Mobile and Japan’s Softbank are forming a Joint Innovation Lab (JIL) to enhance mobile technologies, applications and services.
The JIL will focus on growing areas of mobile internet services, such
as mobile widgets. These mobile widgets will be used to advance
innovative services that can enhance mobile operators’ individual
capabilities. The widgets will be enabled to run on different handset
platforms and operating systems from different mobile operators, while
protecting customer information, media reports.
The companies expect that the project will accelerate the commercial use of mobile internet services.