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Major Japanese carriers join forces to adopt international NFC standard
NTT DoCoMo, KDDI and SoftBank have created the “Japan Mobile NFC Consortium,” which will help the three carriers coordinate and adopt an international NFC standard. Currently, all three operators offer an NFC service dubbed Osaifu-Keitai (wallet phone) which uses a contactless-IC smartcard that’s called FeliCa. Unfortunately, the technology doesn’t work ...
Kobo to be acquired by Japanese e-commerce giant for $315 million
Kobo, purveyor of eReaders and eBook software across a variety of platforms, announced on Tuesday that it will be acquired by Japan-based Rakuten. Rakuten will purchase 100% of outstanding shares of of Kobo for $315 million in cash. Based in Toronto, Ontario, Kobo was spun off of Canadian retailer Indigo in ...
Japanese tech firms to take on Qualcomm with help of Samsung
NTT DoCoMo, Fujitsu, NEC and Panasonic are discussing a joint venture with Samsung that could be created as early as next year, Reuters reported recently. The companies will develop new smartphone baseband chips in an attempt to compete directly with Qualcomm, which currently has an 80% grip on the baseband ...
New Japanese Shooter for iPhone at Promotional Price
Big Pixel Studios, a developer of Indie games, announced recently the launch of its new Japanese style dual-stick shooter title, Meow Meow Happy Fight for iPhone. The story of the game is set in modern Tokyo, the Japanese capital city, where a giant Happy Cat travels back in time from ...
Toshiba IS02, Windows Mobile Smartphone With QWERTY Keyboard, Ready for Japanese Market
Japanese carrier au KDDI recently introduced a new CDMA handset, dubbed the Toshiba IS02, a Windows Mobile QWERTY smartphone, that packs a large widescreen display with VGA resolution. There’s also a Snapdragon CPU on board and many interesting functions, detailed after the break.The handset’s keyboard is a sliding one and ...
Look Up Cute Japanese Girls’ Skirts on Your iPhone via Puff! App
Who have thought that we’d live to see an iPhone app that allows you to have a look at the upskirt views of three cute Japanese girls? It’s here folks and it’s called the Puff! app, certainly a little piece of the NSFW pie, so you’d better check out the ...
Sony Walkman Beats Apple’s iPod in Japanese Market Share
Sony’s famous Walkman player (the new versions) has finally managed to beat Apple iPod’s sales in Japan, by reaching a 43% market share, when compared to the Cupertino-based product, with 42.1%.This is a performance that comes after 4 years of iPod domination in Japan, but Apple is keen on reminding ...
Infinita.tv is All About Japanese Mobile Technology
In case you didn’t know, Japan is absolutely the bomb, when it comes to mobile technology, so it’s pretty hard to keep up with their innovations. After all, we’re dealing with a country that’s got 100 million 3G subscribers and 120 new phones every year. Now you can finally be ...