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Softbank Starts iPad Pre-sales; DoCoMo Gives Up To Provide SIM For iPad Users
Finally, Softbank Mobile got the iPad Pre-sales started. We could find no queue at their storefronts last Sunday’s night, but the scenes have been changed in yesterday’s morning. (In front …
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Softbank Mobile To Begin iPad Pre-orders Tomorrow
Softbank Mobile announced it would begin the iPad pre-orders tomorrow (Monday, May 10) at 10am, Japan Time. You’ll be able to make it at iPad authorized dealers such as selected Softbank Mobile …
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Finally Google Out, Goo In On Half Of Japanese Cellphone
As I reported on Monday, NTT comrades - #1 cellphone carrier NTT Docomo and Japanese portal Goo owner NTT Resonant - tried to get back search initiative in Japanese mobile web by switching their …
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Google Losing Default Mobile Search Engine Position On Docomo i-mode Portal, A Gate To Half Of Japanese Mobile Web
Japan’s largest cellphone carrier NTT Docomo, which boasts 50% market share on cellphone users, also keeps over 50% share of cellphone web connection services i-mode, announced that they switch …
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Tokyo Giants & Hanshin Tigers, Both To Introduce Specially Designed Handsets For Better Fan Engagement
The Yomiuri Giants[J], a professional baseball team based in Tokyo, announced it would introduce a new cellphone handset especially designed for their fans in late June in association with …
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Softbank To Stop Further Development Of Japan-Made Mobile Technology And To Take Chinese 4G Standard?
Softbank, a Japanese telecom and media company who will take over the next-generation PHS service called XGP[J] from the service’s predecessor Willcom in corporate reorganization proceedings, …
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Gourmet Navigator Plans 1-Seg TV Service For Mobile On Tokyo Subways
NKB[J], the transit ad agency running well-known restaurant guide Gourmet Navigator(Gournavi) on the web, is now discussing in-subway 1-seg TV service (refer to these stories about 1-seg) with …
