Kyocera Corporation

Hiroshi Tsukiji

Takeshi Yamane

Masaru Fukushima

Masaomi Satake

Michiaki Hiraoka

Takashi Endoh

Yasuhiko Numagami

Fumihiro Nozaki

Information that is no longer valid due to the passage of time is not provided to a user. When a stock price information server acquires updated stock price information from a securities market network, a message that instructs that a predetermined application be started up and to which a term of validity has been attached is sent to a user terminal over a paging channel via an SMS server. When the user terminal receives the message, it determines whether or not the message is within the term of validity, and if it determines that the message is within the term of validity, starts up the instructed application from among a plurality of applications that are stored. The stock price information server then sends to the user terminal the stock price information that is requested by the started up application.

Mobile communication terminal, information providing system, program, and computer readable recording medium

Mobile communication terminal for controlling startup of application based on received message and information providing system

A portable terminal, which is small sized, excellent in portability, and having high operability for various functions other than a call function, is provided. Two housings are connected such that they can be extended in directions different from each other. The housings have a retraction state, a first extension state, a second extension state, and a third extension state that is a state achieved by further sliding the housings from the second extension into another state. Broadcast receiving conditions are improved by changing the length of an antenna for receiving digital broadcast reception in the second extension state and the third extension state.

Portable terminal

Mobile communication terminal, program, and computer readable recording medium

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Yokohama, Japan

Hiroshi Tsukiji