Archive for November, 2011
Gree and Mobage - Global Battle
Well-done article by Venture Beat on the current status, and future path projected, of Jpn mobile social game giants: http://bit.ly/rT2BOF
Softbank Talks TD-LTE at MAC
SoftBank touts their TD-LTE plans at Mobile Asia Congress with 12,000 base-stations to be deployed in 2012: http://bit.ly/t2hGqM
The iPhone for DoCoMo Saga
DoCoMo still in iPhone talks, nice link bait via WSJ. KDDI Q2 ended 09.30 iP debuted 10.15.. here’s our take: http://bit.ly/vObhsz
AR Geiger Counter Wins Award
Congrats GClue on AR Geiger Counter A3 Together Award. We had Sasaki-san speak at MobileMonday in June: http://bit.ly/rshsrQ
Sony Develops Universal NFC
Sony announces universal NFC reader/writer for FeliCa plus type A & B platforms. Samples at $6 ship end of Nov. http://bit.ly/sgEXiu
Toshiba Biometrics Infrared Scan
Toshiba develops smartphone biometrics solution using infrared scan on veins of your wrist for authentication: http://bit.ly/vNGMLU
Yahoo! Market Opens for Android
Yahoo! Market Opens for Android http://market.yahoo.co.jp [Jpn] with Angry Birds debut on Top.. but not for long: http://bit.ly/u1Rv8s
DeNA to Acquire Pro Baseball Team
DeNA - parent of Mobage - confirms their intent to acquire 66.92% stake in Yokohama BayStars for approx. $83M: http://bit.ly/s1yKv2
DoCoMo Vision 2015 - Shaping Smart Life
DoCoMo has released their Q2 results along with the medium-term plan, see .PDF & conference video material here: http://bit.ly/vl8nGl
Gree Ventures Making Moves
Triple shot of press releases from Gree today related to international expansion and their new gaming platform plans: http://bit.ly/suYVVa










