Tokyo - Sony has partnered with KDDI, Japan's second-largest mobile network operator, on a new mobile music service that lets users transfer songs from their handsets to other portable music players. The au x Sony Music Project, slated for launch in December, will let users of KDDI's EZ Chaku-Uta Full music download service to transfer tracks to digital Walkman players, as well as transfer songs ripped from CDs to their mobile phones.

Tokyo - Japanese wireless carrier KDDI has announced that it has distributed 150 million songs through its LISMO Music Store service, which launched in November 2004 under the name EZ Chaku-uta Full, Billboard reported. The service features a catalog of around 700,000 songs and is available through over 100 websites.

Acton, Mass. - SeaChange, an Acton-based provider of digital video post-production, storage and delivery equipment, has been selected by telecommunications giant KDDI to supply equipment for its new on-demand television business. KDDI provides VoIP-phone, backbone Internet and other IT services to more than 60 cable television operators across Japan.

Tokyo - Japanese wireless carrier KDDI plans this month to launch a service in the U.S. for Japanese residents and visiting tourists, Billboard reported, citing an article in The Asahi Shimbun. The KDDI Mobile service will use leased space on Sprint's wireless network, and offer ringtones and social networking services, in addition to discount calls to Japan. KDDI eventually plans to expand the offering to other Asian U.S. residents, as well as offer services in Europe and other Asian nations.

San Jose, Calif. - Japanese mobile game publisher Namco Networks said on Tuesday that it has signed an agreement to publish Japanese mobile carrier KDDI's large catalog of mobile game titles from Japanese publishers and developers in North America.