Casio DT-5300 Enterprise PDA
Casio introduces DT-5300 industrial PDA w/enhanced security & durability for enterprise clients, FeliCa & MiFare NFC [J] http://bit.ly/21zTx
Casio introduces DT-5300 industrial PDA w/enhanced security & durability for enterprise clients, FeliCa & MiFare NFC [J] http://bit.ly/21zTx
Adobe Edge announces Sept release of SDK for developers to create FeliCa app combined with AIR/Flash for mobile & PC [J] http://bit.ly/T1SqM
Kudo’s to TechCrunch for looking beyond the usual US-centric focus to explain the magic mobile ecosystem here in Japan with 1,000 words or less. While, as stated, the web access device of choice is running at even 50-50 between PC and cellphone, it’s most certainly not an either/or scenario…
Verena over at PingMag filed a great report, from her visit to the recent RFID expo held in Tokyo, with an overview of several embedded tag designs including the school uniform emblem pictured below. As we noted previously (Here and Here), the trials with students – and prisoners – continues to be a hot topic especially considering the more recent noise about youngsters mobile phone usage.
Singaporean telecommunications service provider StarHub plans to release a mobile wallet based on NTT DoCoMo’s Osaifu-Keitai (mobile wallet) system. Accoring to this announcement StarHub has signed a memorandum of understanding with NTT DoCoMo to explore a mobile wallet concept similar to the Osaifu-Keitai system for a near future implementation in Singapore. Singapore will be the first market outside of Japan to launch an official study and eventual pilot of this service.
Walt Disney Japan held a press conference in Tokyo to introduce their new “Disney Mobile” service which is slated for public launch on March 1st. Although the company will run the business as an MVNO, it emphasized that the service will be distributed in collaboration with SoftBank Mobile with the same “White Plan” price package offerings. There’s a nice Flash video on the home page Here.