Taito Corp, a Japanese game software developer, and Finland’s mobile communications company, Nokia Corp, announced on Aug 28 a plan for joint presentation of a karaoke application to be used on cell phones in Asia. Taito will offer an application using its karaoke data format, “Sequential Display Object Format” (SDOF) for Nokia’s GSM-compatible mobile phone “Nokia 3300.”

The two firms also will jointly distribute karaoke contents online. Starting this fall, a plan will be carried out to provide developers in various countries with Taito’s authoring tool for creating karaoke data. Continue >>

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