KDDI wins the cell phone portability race!

Looks like KDDI kicked Softbank's ass in the race to win customers when cell phone numbers became portable exactly two weeks ago. The service provider gained 200,000 new customers during the week of Oct 24-31; half of them were converts from Softbank and NTT DoCoMo. Read about Softbank's mistake here. Read the full news story here. And if you're wondering who this perky Japanese business man is, it's Tadashi Onodera, president of KDDI.