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Glass-less 3D to me means a TV without any glass in front and rendering images in holographic form. But to Toshiba, this is a TV that negates eyewear required, like with the Nintendo 3DS, to view close-to-life 3D images on a ... more »

Japan Communications today announced that it will be taking orders for talkingSIM, a voice and data microSIM to be used with unlocked iPhones in Japan. iPhones sold by Softbank (the exclusive carrier of Japan) and Apple Japan are all SIM-locked to ... more »

Japan Railways East Japan Water Business, a subsidiary of JR East K.K., today installed in its railway station in Shinagawa, Tokyo, what may soon be a standard all over the world--a 47-inch OLED touch display vending machine for drinks. Not only ... more »

Normally when a new technology such as 3D comes to town, you have to purchase the whole deal (cameras and monitors, and of course stereoscopic eye glasses) from scratch. Samsung, Panasonic and many others made many "early adopters and must have latest consumers" ... more »

Maspro Denko K.K. in Japan announced on July 15 that it will make available to the market a Mickey motif CS/BS Satellite antenna in the Japanese market. Maspro uses special material that does not interfere with the broadcast data reception in the ... more »

In January 2001, I got my hand on Apple's PowerBook G4 Titanium body beauty. It had just been announced at Macworld San Francisco on January 9 by Steve Jobs. I was an Apple employee then, and being the evangelist for all ... more »

My contonious search for a sub camera to add to my heavy Canon EOS 5D Mark II has been neverending, until now. I have bought the Panasonic GH1, Sony H5X and Canon S90, to name a few. None of these dSLRs ... more »

Around 200 diehard Apple iPhone fans have gotten in line for the already customary annual party at the Omotesando Softbank store in Harajuku. The store, slated to sell the iPhone 4 at 8am on June 24, will be the first outlet ... more »

I remember the days when an app was still respectfully called applications. Every time I see the word "app", I am more inclined to think of AAPL, which is Apple's stock sign in Nasdaq. However, in year 2000, when I was ... more »

I have been writing this article since March 17, found it in my "not published" tray, so I decided to finish it today, There are data centers and there are DATA CENTERS. What is a data center? Data center infrastructure layers ... more »

Apple and its iPhone carrier Softbank have announced the details and begun taking preorders for the iPad on May 10. In the early morning hours before dawn, it was Softbank, Apple's iPhone carrier, which made the price and 3G data plans available to ... more »

Are Henry Hill and Jimmy Conway busy bustin' chops at EMS and UPS in Jersey stealing multiple iPad shipments to Japan and other international destinations? At least, the number of incidents and similar methods suggest so. (In reference to the movie ... more »

Newsweek announced it is selling itself. "Don Graham: We're open to any good buyer." Does Apple benefit from buying Newsweek? I think so.

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Newsweek is dying because it could not change and keep up with the ... more »

Supported by the Asian economic boom, the DotAsia domain name organization is offering a sustainable framework for any firm or individual to succeed and get noticed in the Asian Internet arena. .asia is sponsored by multiple international members covering the vast Asian ... more »

Unlike the original iPhone Apple introduced on June 28, 2007, the iPad won immediate international acclaim. It took Apple nearly two years for the iPhone to become mainstream, but the iPad, although unavailable for purchase outside of the US at the ... more »