Archive for the ‘Asia Pacific’ Category
Sunday, April 20th, 2008
Thanks to KDDI Lismo music service, 90% of the digital music sales in Japan comes from mobile, according to Wireless Watch Japan. The Record Industry Association of Japan (RIAJ) has reported 2007 figures, with total sales increasing for third year in a row, and with an spectacular 91% increase in ...
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Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Each season Mobile Operators in Japan present their new handsets, often developed in exclusive by Japanese vendors as Hitachi, Sanyo, Panasonic or Kyocera.
See these articles with details on the latest models announced by KDDI and Softbank: KDDI spring'08 phones and Softbank 2008 Spring Collection.
It is interesting how Japanese operators manage the ...
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Thursday, February 7th, 2008
Happy Chinese New Year. Today is the first day of the Chinese New Year.
Our best wishes for the year of the Rat.
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Saturday, January 12th, 2008
Few people are aware about the huge success that KDDI, #2 mobile operator in Japan, has achieved in selling music to mobile phones. LISMO is the name of the music service available to KDDI au subscribers, that offers song downloads over the air.
In a press release back in February ...
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Thursday, January 10th, 2008
DVB-SH might have been the last standard to arrive on Mobile Broadcast TV technology, but it is showing strong advantages compared to DVB-H, the most extended standard in current trials well ahead of proprietary MediaFlo.
DVB-H (Digital Video Broadcast-Handheld) is an evolution of the exisiting DVB-T (Terrestrial), the current standard for ...
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Monday, January 7th, 2008
Apple with iTunes is selling music directly to the iPhone.
Nokia has their own music portal Ovi for music and games.
And we see Motorola acquiring companies to reinforce the music service it was offering in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Interestingly mobile operators are not taking an active role to own the ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
No doubt, iPod is extremely successful in Japan, being one of the top selling iTunes stores. When iTunes Japan opened in August 2005, it sold one million songs in four days!! No wonder why the price of iPod in Japan is lower than in many other markets. The Japanese do ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
TechCrunch reported a few days ago the success of "mobile phone ebooks" in Japan. See article
I often fly to Tokyo for work. People there commute mainly on train. Japan has the best railway system in the world. Trains are so punctual you can actually use them to set your watch ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
I have been in Tokyo this week, almost 2 years after I spent a few months living there.
The Telecom market has evolved specially in mobile, with eMobile as a new 3G player and with Vodafone, unable to cope with the specificities of the market, selling their Japanese operations ...
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