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Apparently one good game can take a gaming platform to the top. That's what is happening with the PlayStation Portable and the Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G game from Capcom. The wild success of the videogame title has made the PSP the dominant gaming console in Japan for the second week in a row. Its closest ri... |
14 April 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Panasonic announced that it had sold its 100 millionth mobile phone at the beginning of April 2008, becoming the first producer to have shipped so many handsets in Japan. International brand of Matsushita Electric, Panasonic launched its first device that can be cataloged as a mobile phone in 1987. It was the TZ-8... |
11 April 2008
04:11 GMT |
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For a few weeks now, the Nintendo DS has stood at the top of the chart when it came to gaming hardware sales in Japan. But for the week that ended on March 30 the story has been a bit different. Not only did the PlayStation Portable reclaim the top spot but it also posted record sales numbers.In a week the gaming con... |
7 April 2008
03:22 GMT |
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Enterbrain, a company that specializes in the analysis of the Japanese hardware and software market, has released its findings related to the evolution of the videogames market over the fiscal year that has just ended on March 30. While not mind-blowing the figures suggest clear, sustained growth.The combined sales o... |
4 April 2008
03:40 GMT |
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It's no easy feat to sell more than 1 million game units in less than a week (six days to be precise) and it's even more of a feat to do this on a system that's not exactly the most coveted these days. But Capcom has done it and their Monster Hunter Portable 2nd G title for the PlayStation Portable pla... |
3 April 2008
03:58 GMT |
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The Nintendo Wii has always put emphasis on different and sometimes quirky gameplay over the classic game recipes. The control scheme of the Wii rewards those developers who create games that do not follow already existing patterns. And who's better prepared to take advantage of this than the Wii's creators... |
2 April 2008
06:48 GMT |
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The copyright of the content uploaded on YouTube has always been a problem for the video sharing service's parent company Google, as there are numerous firms which sued the search giant, accusing it of copyright infringement. Because of that, every new copyright deal signed by Google is welcomed, as it keeps the... |
31 March 2008
03:53 GMT |
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Following the news that in February's NPD hardware sales numbers the Nintendo DS surprised everyone by nearly doubling its sales numbers, passing 500,000 units sold and getting the first spot, it seems that in Japan too the Nintendo handheld is performing admirably and is posting top sales numbers.A market resea... |
31 March 2008
02:42 GMT |
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Nokia N95 was until now officially available only in two colors, silver and red. Well, the red one is not for sale world-wide, but it can still be called "available". As of April 2008, the Nseries handset will also come in white and blue, but unfortunately these new versions can only be bought in Japan, from Softbank... |
27 March 2008
16:21 GMT |
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Windows Vista Service Pack 1 is now nothing more than water under the bridge, now that the service pack was released to manufacturing on February 4, 2008, shipping to general users on March 18. At the same time while Windows XP SP3 is not even out the door, with Microsoft having just delivered XP SP3 release Candidat... |
27 March 2008
15:18 GMT |
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NTT DoCoMo, the largest mobile operator in Japan, today announced it has achieved a stunning performance in terms of data transfer speeds over a wireless network. The Japanese carrier performed several outdoor tests with an experimental Super 3G mobile network and recorded a maximum downlink transmission rate of 250 ... |
26 March 2008
18:06 GMT |
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Japan is being the first country to benefit from the launch of Nintendo's WiiWare service. As of today, all Japanese Wii users will be able to buy and download games designed specifically for the Nintendo Wii gaming consoles using the new application.WiiWare is part of the WiiShop Nintendo initiative, created to... |
26 March 2008
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Luxury mobile phones seem to never be enough, therefore Toshiba decided to launch a new handset that will cost several thousands of dollars. Named Cosmic Shiner, the new device will be dressed in diamonds and will feature different custom-made cases created in collaboration with Kansai Yamamoto, a famous Japanese fa... |
25 March 2008
14:54 GMT |
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"Fight, fight, fight... kill the Robot!" would scream people in some futuristic movie. However, this is hardly the case for the Robo-One Championships that took place in Korakuen stadium hall in Tokyo. Instead, the robot fighters were accompanied by applauses. Don't expect any heavyweight machines either, as the... |
25 March 2008
04:22 GMT |
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Capcom Japan is 25 years old. Yup, for 25 years they have been making videogames. In my mind, that's a lot of years and a lot of games. And to celebrate their years, Capcom have decided to release a special DVD. The good news is that it features some Resident Evil 5 videos. The bad news is that you can only get ... |
24 March 2008
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You are more familiar with cultural festivals, focused on music or movies, or maybe with Oktoberfest. But those tiny hard working Japanese, so sober at a first glance, can go crazy in some occasions. If you hurry up, in just about 2 weeks you can be a participant in the annual three-day Kanamara (Iron Phallus) Festiv... |
20 March 2008
14:06 GMT |
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Japan found out yesterday that their defaulted Google homepage looked like nothing they had ever seen before. The clean white background was tainted by some tabs that weren't there the previous night, but overall the feedback the team responsible for the change received was ranging from "good" to "hell yeah!," o... |
20 March 2008
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2G mobile phones account for the majority of the handsets currently functional worldwide. They only work on GSM, CDMA, TDMA or PCD networks and offer less advantages than the new generation phones which come with support for 3G. Most probably, as time goes by, all 2G networks will be completely replaced with new 3G (... |
15 March 2008
12:19 GMT |
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Sharp, the giant Japanese electronics producer, recently unveiled one of its latest mobile phones, Sharp SH705iII. The handset features a built-in TV tuner and a wide 2.8 inch internal screen with a 400 x 240 pixels resolution and support for 262,000 colors, hence it can offer a good mobile TV viewing experience. ... |
14 March 2008
16:24 GMT |
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Word on the street is that Apple's MacBook Air has to face yet more competition, following debates concerning which between Apple's laptop and Lenovo's ThinkPad X300 is a better computer. Frontier has adopted an aggressive attitude prepping to launch its FRLN which is both lighter and sturdier than the... |
14 March 2008
11:59 GMT |
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For most westerners Japan is the country of sushi, samurai, aiki-do and sumo. The last one is a type of wrestling between fighters with enormous weights. Sumo is a ritual fight, and the combatants make prayers to the gods before wrestling. The aim of sumo is that the fighter must throw his adversary out of the circle... |
14 March 2008
11:26 GMT |
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Mitsubishi is a brand not quite known in the mobile phone industry, at least not globally, and it's probably best associated with the automobiles made by Mitsubishi Motors. However, Mitsubishi Group has many subsidiaries, including Mitsubishi Electric, a company that produces electric equipment and mobile phones... |
3 March 2008
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This is no longer big news: everybody knows that the Wii still sells and the PS3 doesn't. The Xbox 360 sells and the PS3 doesn't. Hell, we could even say that the Uwe Boll films sell and the PS3 doesn't. You got the main idea, since there is one sequence of words that I keep saying. If further proof is... |
29 February 2008
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1. In northern Japan, on the island of Hokkaido and a part of the Russian Sakhalin Island, lives a mysterious ethnic group, called Ainu, whose origins represents a mystery. They are very distinct from the Japanese people and, before the Tungus invasion coming from mainland Asia (Korea and northern China), the whole a... |
21 February 2008
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NEC Corporation rolled out two new phones, NEC N905i and NEC N905iµ, both coming as clamshell handsets that run on the new LiMo open source mobile platform. The two devices are announced in the same period with NEC N705iµ, one of the most slimmest clamshell phones ever created. NEC N905i brings an easy to use interf... |
21 February 2008
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1. Japan is an archipelago made of 4 large islands: Honshū (the "mainland"), Shikoku, Kyūshū and Hokkaidō, and by numerous small islands and islets. The center of the country is crosses by the Japanese Alps, volcanic mountains that make 80 % of the surface of the country and which reach the highe... |
14 February 2008
11:11 GMT |
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It seems that there are places in this world where next-gen doesn't automatically mean "high sales". The same happens in Japan where the last-gen PlayStation 2 sold two times better than the Xbox 360s - only 260,000 consoles were sold in Japan. Having in mind that Nintendo and, especially, Sony - Microsoft'... |
4 February 2008
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After announcing Nokia N95, SoftBank, the third largest mobile operator in Japan, reveals new phones for the Japanese market, launched in an attempt to catch-up with the other two Japanese carriers, NTT DoCoMo and KDDI. One of the best looking phones to come via SoftBank is Sharp 921SH, a W-CDMA device released und... |
31 January 2008
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Pantech, the South Korean phone manufacturer, and Sanyo, the Japanese electronics company, revealed two of their latest handsets that will be launched in Japan via KDDI's au network. The first phone, Pantech W61PT (or " Pantech - au W61PT") is a slider created to attract those who want a good looking de... |
30 January 2008
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While Sony Ericsson's enthusiastic fans keep on creating amazing concept phones that have little chances to become real devices, the Swedish-Japanese company minds its own business and has recently unveiled two new handsets from the Cyber-shot series: Sony Ericsson W61S and Sony Ericsson W62S, both showcased in ... |
29 January 2008
06:27 GMT |
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The Mountain View-based company concluded that the many people in the Internet savvy Asia are worth every effort, so they decided to strengthen the company's position there by teaming up with NTT DoCoMo Inc., the biggest mobile operator company in Japan, Reuters reports.The service that the two will be providing... |
24 January 2008
16:16 GMT |
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I'm thinking Google should start worrying about its services in Japan and so should Yahoo! The search engine that dominates the Chinese market has set its eyes on the neighboring country and it is determined to go the extra mile to win the battle for the advertising cash in the world's second largest econom... |
23 January 2008
06:29 GMT |
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There's been an announcement of "Twitter in Japan" posted on the product's official blog and it had the Asian country's users fired up over it ever since yesterday, the time the news hit the Internet."To support continued growth in Japan, Twitter has formed a partnership with Digital Garage to create t... |
17 January 2008
05:44 GMT |
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Although they live on the same planet with the rest of us, from some points of view, the Japanese seem to be an alien race, the implementation of advanced technology in their society outmatching by far just about every other country in the world (apart from South Korea, perhaps). Thus, it's no wonder that the Ja... |
15 January 2008
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It's not a new console we're talking about, but rather a strange pack available in Japan, noticed by the fellows of Kotaku. As weird as it may seem, inside this package that reminds us all of the Xbox 360 Premium is a schoolgirl costume and various other kinky items. This "Sexbox" pack is not only a seemin... |
15 January 2008
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The Japanese giant SoftBank Mobile has announced the soon to be here implementation of their Yahoo Kids content filter option, as a result of the increasing concern that clients under 18 of age may access adult related content. As the announcement states, the "Web use limitation" is a function designed to limit the a... |
14 January 2008
08:59 GMT |
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An interview with Konami's sound director Akira Yamaoka has revealed one of the most surprising aspects surrounding video game development in Japan: that it's becoming too sophisticated of a task for them every time they have a new project on their hands. More than that, Japanese developers are getting old,... |
27 December 2007
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What do you know, Sony is prepping to lower the price on their PlayStation 3 console in Japan. Not only will the existing 20GB units see a 10 percent drop in price, but the 60GB SKU will also see a price reduction - not yet confirmed by how much, though. More than that, Sony is ready to ship the 40GB PS3 too (at an a... |
18 December 2007
06:58 GMT |
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What might have been considered a strategic withdrawal off the market back in 2002, actually turned out to be a KO that sent eBay to the ground in round 1. Yahoo! and the world knew that it wouldn't be a lucky punch, but didn't shy away from going into the ring with the inexperienced, on the Japanese market... |
4 December 2007
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Well what do you know? What seemed to be the laughing stock of this generation of hardware, the PlayStation 3 is beginning to show its teeth lately, having entered the second week of sales ruling in Japan. According to Next-Gen.biz "the latest hardware sales figures from Japan show that Sony's PlayStation 3 has ... |
23 November 2007
04:53 GMT |
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It doesn't take much to start a crazy trend in Japan and once you do, you'll sell millions and millions of albums, gadgets or clothes, as long as the public digs your innovation. The Nintendo DS is one of the best-selling consoles in the world right now and, as such, it receives various accessories which b... |
21 November 2007
10:55 GMT |
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LG brought one month ago its most successful mobile phone, the LG Chocolate, on the most picky telecom market, the Japanese one. It's a risky move that could result with great success or cover it in shame. Recent sales results show that the device reached great popularity and has high chances of striking gold he... |
15 November 2007
11:41 GMT |
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We knew that the Japanese consumer electronics market was a very tough and competitive one, but it seems that things are a lot worse than expected, at least for the foreign companies. Actually, the situation has become so dire that Samsung, one of the world's largest consumer electronics manufacturers, has decid... |
9 November 2007
15:36 GMT |
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A new report from the analyst firm Berg Insight found that almost 40 million people in Japan and South Korea watch mobile TV. This means 78 percent of the total mobile TV broadcasting, which makes a huge chunk of this market.The result is little surprising. It is common knowledge that mobile TV has reached a much hig... |
6 November 2007
03:35 GMT |
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We're living in a world where Nintendo's domination is getting as frail as possible in the console sales department, especially now that Microsoft has reduced the price of the Core 360 in Japan. As if this wasn't enough, the Value Pack is also available in Sony's homeland and it comes with a Forza... |
5 November 2007
10:10 GMT |
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NEC N905iµ has been unveiled in Japan, along with some impressive features that should make all other continents crave for such a release too. As it usually happens with such phone models, the clamshell will see only a local release, with no chances for the high-tech hungry ones waiting at the borders to get one.The ... |
5 November 2007
08:43 GMT |
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Second Life's popularity has hit Japan as well and they are now working on ways to develop the technology needed for bringing it on their mobile phones as well. It's all pretty close to becoming true as the service will be released before the holidays. The service is targeted at DoCoMo handsets from the 3G... |
2 November 2007
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NTT DoCoMo will bring a great diversity and vivid color in its new lineup for the near future. Japan's leading operator just announced the release of 23 new mobile phones in a total of 75 colors for the 905i and 705i series.Japanese mobile phones always seem to have stronger personality than those devices that a... |
1 November 2007
11:28 GMT |
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After a long time of waiting, LG KG290 has finally hit stores. It's nothing out of the ordinary and should manage to bring solutions only to the average needs of the users.The handset has been recently announced for a release earlier this month and now finally hit stores. This slider phone comes with a 1.7 inch ... |
31 October 2007
04:37 GMT |
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Some of the most evolved smartphones out there are available in Japan, with little or no chances of a global release any time in the future. Toshiba T-911 is just one of them, with some pretty interesting features.The phone can pride with the fact that it includes 3G connectivity to make possible high data transfer s... |
26 October 2007
06:13 GMT |
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