Year
2009
Joint Innovation Lab Widget Platform
SoftBank Mobile and Sharp join Joint Innovation Lab consortium on initiative for mobile widget specs - PR in EnglishMobile Digital TV in Japan Survey
Annual web survey conducted by Goo shows over 70% of Japanese own 1Seg Digital TV enabled handset [JPN]Mobile Is and Will Be Bigger than Most Think
Mobile in Japan.. Provide Roadmaps Growth & Monetization [Pg. 29+] by Mary Meeker at Morgan Stanley via Web 2.0 Summit: PDFKDDI Introduces 12M Camera Phones
KDDI held their Fall and Winter 2009 handset launch in Tokyo yesterday with a splash of new hardware on display for the upcoming season. The lineup has 13 new models in total; four coming Sharp, three by Kyocera, two each via Casio and Sony Ericsson and one from each Sanyo and Toshiba rounding out the pack. Most noticeable by all accounts is the jump to 12 mega-pixel camera spec. on both Sharp Aquos Shot models and the CA003 Exilim by Casio which also touts shooting 20 frames per second - thank you very much! The usual fancy touch&try Flash-style site is Here [Jpn] and our best effort machine translation is below.
Clearly the #2 operator has moved aggressively to address their device portfolio offering as they have struggled over the last 18-months wiPikkle Scores $1.5M from Mixi
Congrats to DC! - Mixi invested 140 million yen, or approx. $1.5M, in Pikkle under the mobile application developer program [JPN]Japan Mobile Stats for Sept 2009
SoftBank Mobile tops 108k net additions, edging KDDI at 102K, nearly double DoCoMo who saw 9k net loss of imode subs Mirumo Wins CEATEC Innovation Award
Sharp has won the coveted annual CEATEC Innovation Grand Prix award according to this press release [Jpn].
Emergency mobilER MuliCast Trials
Multicast trial of "Ambulance MobileER" using wearable computer and a mobile router supporting Mobile IPv6 [Jpn]DeNA Makes SDK Move in U.S.
DeNA announced 20% investment in Aurora Feint, targeting their SDK platform for the iPhone developers [Jpn]Next-Gen Flash Suite Announced
Adobe has announced their new Flash Player 10.1 multimedia software suite for PC and mobile devices.
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