Grand Prix Mobile Special Event
au by KDDI is running a special mobile campaign for 100 lucky winners to see Tomokazu Sugita perform live!
Year: 2009
Hitachi Acquires Assets from Nortel
Nortel concludes $10-million sale of its next-generation packet core network components business to Hitachi.
Overview of WiMax in Japan
Everything you ever needed to know about WiMax in Japan – via UQ Communications.
Ameba Launches Entertainer Mobile
Cyber Agent rolls a new mobile mini-blogging service using Twitter functions with Japanese celebrity’s featured.
Google Starts Promoting QR Codes
We stumbled across this little gem and had to pass along – seems that Google is getting all jiggly with the made-in-Japan QR Code tech. now finally. We found it at least somewhat ‘interesting’ they opted to use the iPhone – instead of Android – handset for the promo video. We paused the u-Tube clip embedded below and tried a few scans which returned link addys – mostly the same one – loaded site pages, on our Jpn handset, that were basically useless.
Japan Mobile SNS Traffic Doubles
DeNA’s MobagaTown – Mobile SNS – claims 32B PV’s in Nov. almost double the 17B in Sept. [JPN] http://bit.ly/6rqUP6