Microsoft Japan announced today that its employees are to get Lumia 830 instead of their current Windows Phone IS12T, Windows Phone device which are not sold in Japan. The announcement also notes that the company got Lumia 830’s Giteki-certification only for this purpose, to legalize its employees’ usage of the phone. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00NFG57CW/ IS12T, made by… Continue reading Microsoft Japan Finally Upgrades Staffs’ 4 Years-old Windows Phone
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Buying A 173,250 Yen Doll From Microsoft Comes With Dev Tools, Or Opposite?
Microsoft Japan has been featuring Cloud-girl Claudia to grab the heart of anime-loving geeks. Their latest campaign offers the limited Claudia doll for everyone who purchases Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 Professional with MSDN, which price is 173,250 yen (US$2200). The doll is planned to be 15-20 centimeters(6-8 inches) heights, with serial number. The campaign will… Continue reading Buying A 173,250 Yen Doll From Microsoft Comes With Dev Tools, Or Opposite?
[Photo] How To Land A Job At Rakuten
Gayle L McDowell’s book “The Google Resume: How to Prepare for a Career and Land a Job at Apple, Microsoft, Google, or any Top Tech Company” is translated to Japanese and sold in Japan this month. The cover image of the Japanese version book posted by a blogger Yumaendo got a huge buzz on Facebook,… Continue reading [Photo] How To Land A Job At Rakuten
Microsoft Japan’s Cloud Girl Sends You A New Year’s Card
Microsoft Developer Network(MSDN) runs a campaign for Japanese developers by featuring its cloud-technology poster girl Claudia. If you are living in Japan, you will be able to receive a Nengajou, new year’s greeting postcard from Claudia and a special guest Hikaru Aizawa, who is another anime campaign girl from Microsoft Taiwan [Zn]. (It is not… Continue reading Microsoft Japan’s Cloud Girl Sends You A New Year’s Card
Microsoft Japan Windows DSP Campaign Comes With Its Anime Poster Girl Nanami Madobe
Microsoft Japan’s Winter campaign of Windows Ultimate DSP version [J] comes with Deanne Cheuk design Touch Mouse and its official poster character Nanami Madobe. Nanami Madobe (Madobe Nanami in Japanese name order) was originally an unofficial character appeared from an Akihabara shop, became an official later before Cloud girl and Hyper-V girl. Nanami is from… Continue reading Microsoft Japan Windows DSP Campaign Comes With Its Anime Poster Girl Nanami Madobe
Crazy Japanese Commercials For The World First Windows Phone 7.5
KDDI au, who shipped Fujitsu-Toshiba-made IS12T, the earliest shipped Windows Phone 7.5(Mango) around the world last month, made some strange commercial films. parody of TV shopping program Even if it is all in Japanese, I think you will get the point as the high-tension on the TV shopping should be universal. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EIz4C93i-U8 I liked the… Continue reading Crazy Japanese Commercials For The World First Windows Phone 7.5
TeleBing – Microsoft Releases TV Guide App For iPhone/iPad
TeleBing, named after television and Bing, Microsoft’s search engine, is an iOS application for Japanese TV watchers to show TV program schedules. Microsoft Japan released it “to promote Bing brand.” The program guide works with Twitter and Facebook. From program detail page, you may share your comments to Twitter and/or Facebook. Japanese TV programs data… Continue reading TeleBing – Microsoft Releases TV Guide App For iPhone/iPad
Microsoft Dives Into Japan’s Booming Smartphone Market With World’s First Mango Smartphone And Other Key Partnerships
In a joint press conference held this morning, Microsoft, Fujitsu-Toshiba and KDDI unveiled [J] the Fujitsu-Toshiba IS12T smartphone, the world’s very first Windows Phone Mango handset hitting Japan this September only on the KDDI AU mobile network. The phone features a 3.7″ LED display, 1 Ghz Qualcomm MSM8655 CPU, 32GB internal memory, 13.2 Megapixel Camera and is both… Continue reading Microsoft Dives Into Japan’s Booming Smartphone Market With World’s First Mango Smartphone And Other Key Partnerships
Microsoft Japan Introduces Another Anime Girl For Small And Medium Business
Following to the cloud girl Claudia, Microsoft’s Japan local branch tries to appeal their target by using a new character. The Microsoft Virtualization campaign page suggests three Hyper-V solutions to Small and Med sized enterprise. The character name and other information are not disclosed but some anime fans already pointed out that it must be… Continue reading Microsoft Japan Introduces Another Anime Girl For Small And Medium Business
Cloud Girl – Microsoft Windows Azure Manga Promotion
Microsoft Japan is teasing its online comic series “Cloud Girl”, which promotes Windows Azure cloud service. The first episode of this “Cloud Girl” with subtitle “Mado to Kumo to Aoi-sora”(windows, clouds and azure sky) is said to be released late this May 2011, on a prologue. The heroine, Claudia Madobe (@Claudia_Azure “madobe” means window-side in… Continue reading Cloud Girl – Microsoft Windows Azure Manga Promotion