Article: The art of killing time online.

No one does wireless entertainment better than the Japanese; that's why American carriers are taking pains to copy the Japanese model, and why transpacific alliances are all the rage.

THE REMARKABLE POPULARITY OF downloadable wireless entertainment in Japan has not only changed the way Japanese people wait for trains and otherwise kill time, but its active inertia has carried overseas. Western markets have, in varying forms, begun to attempt to replicate Japan's wireless revolution. Japan's runaway success has been one of the main inspirations for the fledgling US market, which seeks a strong Japanese flavor.

Many American companies have internalized the ...

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