Archive for June, 2010

Xperia Tops Japan Sales in May

According the this article [JPN] in the Yomiuri Shimbun, quoting BCN Rankings, the Xperia by Sony Ericsson took top spot here last month with the iPhone 16GB dropping to 4th place.

Posted: 7 June 2010 | Filed under: Japan Market | ..Continue >> 

DoCoMo at CommunicAsia 2010

DoCoMo at CommunicAsia 2010 Exhibition - Details in Eng: http://bit.ly/a7XGe3 We look forward to see you there as well..!!

Posted: 3 June 2010 | Filed under: tweets | ..Continue >> 

i-mobile Claims 7B Impressions in May

According to the Asahi, i-mobile recorded an avg. of +200M daily requests in May for just over 7B impressions in total - JPN: http://bit.ly/93G6gg

Posted: 2 June 2010 | Filed under: tweets | ..Continue >> 

BlackBerry App World for Japan

RIM is rolling their Blackberry App World for the Japan market as of today! Details in JPN - http://bit.ly/cGlyqr

Posted: 1 June 2010 | Filed under: tweets | ..Continue >> 

Opera Declares Flash Support

Considering the market penetration of Opera in Japan and vast amount of mobile Flash driven offering here.. not much of a surprise. Without getting too deep into a predictable flame war, it is ‘interesting’ that Apple opposes the ubiquitous Adobe product supposedly based on their aversion to it being a proprietary standard.. when in-effect they are clearly “guilty” of that approach in many ways as well. Perhaps the real issue would have something more to-do with the fact that Flash would potentially crack open wider access to transactions beyond the current closed App Store money machine.. so until then you have the distant dream of html 5.

Posted: 1 June 2010 | Filed under: Editor's Note | ..Continue >>