Year
2010
NEC, Casio and Hitachi Merger
As announced last spring, 3 major players in the handset business are finally - officially - coming together under one roof, Eng: http://bit.ly/a8gPzQPresentation at Mobile Money Summit
We're off to the GSMA Mobile Money Summit in Rio de Janerio - Cya @MoMo event on May 24th! http://bit.ly/IgwX1ZTE Remote Mobile WebCam
There will be plenty of shocked puppies here going forward. Mark our words this is just the beginning on what will surely become a common feature - worldwide - in the nearest future. In fact, it's natural evolution of the current Otayori Photo frames Rev.1 we've seen rolling here over the last year.. 8-)
DoCoMo Darth Vader Campaign
DoCoMo Darth Campaign = JR Station Domination here yesterday..!! Our Benevolent Dictator comes clean.. 8-) Photo: http://twitpic.com/1pcnadSoftBank Summer 2010 Presser
Couldn't attend - no worries - the full 90-min Webcast Here, with English voice-over, so grab a cuppa and sit back to see what the disruptive #3 player has on tap!
Twitter with AR – SekaiCamera
KDDI announces Twitter with AR function via SekaiCamera - Congrats to the crew at Tonchidot! Jpn: http://bit.ly/cS1rWGSoftbank Wi-Fi spot at Starbucks
It becomes possible to use "Softbank Wi-Fi spot" of the service of public wireless LAN of mobile Softbank with the Starbucks coffee on June 1. The correspondence store schedules to expand to 500 stores by the end of August in 2010. Starbucks coffee Japan begin the offer of "Softbank Wi-Fi spot" of the service of public wireless LAN of mobile Softbank in the Starbucks coffee store in the whole country on June 1.
KDDI Summer-Series Phones
In case you missed yesterday - KDDI pushed a record 9 press releases including their summer-series handsets, Jpn Flash:http://bit.ly/bQrItj20 New Handsets from DoCoMo
Fresh off the Wire - DoCoMo just announced 20 new handsets for summer season - Full Details are in English Here: http://bit.ly/ahmpyjWiMAX Offered by BIGLOBE
MVNO of the WiMAX service will begin the offer of the fixed amount plan of two stages by NEC BIGLOBE Ltd. (The headquarters: Shinagawa Ward, Tokyo and representative director corporate officer president: Hisao Iizuka, as follows BIGLOBE) in high-speed, mobile connection service "Mobility WiMAX of high-speed BIGLOBE" today, and offer the upper bound from the monthly sum cost 378 yen of [yasu] for 4,978 yen. As a result, the user with a great difference between the usage frequency and the communication charge readily becomes possible monthly the use of a high-speed, mobile connection service, too.
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