Google bares plan to open a Japanese-language version of its email service to anyone who wants to sign up. Japan is the third market after Australia and New Zealand in which Google has allowed open access to GMail, which it offers in more than 40 different languages.
AOL plans to offer movies from four major Hollywood studios for downloading on its new Internet video service. AOL said films from Twentieth Century Fox, Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, Universal Pictures and Warner Bros. Home Entertainment Group will be available for download on AOL Video for $9.99 to $19.99 per movie.
Korean mobile handset manufacturer Pantech says it is targeting a market share of 5% in Chile by 2007 after entering the country under an agreement with local mobile operator Claro. The agreement with Claro, formerly Smartcom and a unit of Mexico's América Móvil, is part of Pantech's latest phase of its expansion plan in Latin America.