Japan is one of the countries looking to filter the mobile internet “for the sake of the children”, and Infinita has some details of the proposed regulations: “As well as…

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Google (NSDQ: GOOG) and DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) have announced plans for a tie-up in Japan, reports Reuters. Google Search will “feature” on DoCoMo’s handsets (not sure if that’s on the…

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Disney (NYSE: DIS), not content with two failed MVNO ventures in U.S., is now entering Japan, and launching a mobile service aimed at women. Vote below: (RSS readers may have…

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Disney (NYSE: DIS) has unveiled the three handsets which it will offer in its Japanese MVNO, due to launch on March 1st. “Aimed at young working women, Disney Mobile will…

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Quick response (QR) codes, or scannable mobile barcodes, that can hold web page URLs or other content in them, are popular in Japan, but have been slow to catch on…

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Japan will start licensing mobile phone “sommeliers” to help consumers through the thicket of increasingly complicated mobile functions as handsets get more and more advanced. AFP reports that the country’s…

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We have been covering the advent and rise of Japanese cellphone novels for a few years now, and now New York Times (NYSE: NYT) does a front page story in…

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-- Encyclopedia Brittanica: The quintessential Encyclopedia Brittanica has signed up Mobifusion for the Britannica Concise 2008. Motricity is offering the service, promoting it on Palmgear, Pocketgear and Smartphones extensively through…

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JR Tokai Express Research has conducted a survey into Japan on the attitude towards the iPhone. Japan is considered a tough market for Apple because it’s already a sophisticated market…

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AdMob is planning to start operations in Japan next month, apparently feeling confident in entering a market that is considered years ahead of the rest of the world in terms…

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Twitter, the microblog platform, is going to Japan, officially, and has received an undisclosed amount of investment (though small) from local investment firm Digital Garage, according to reports. The company…

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A Japanese survey of 300 mobile phone users from the Cross Marketing monitor group has shown what percentage of people will use a particular method to access the mobile internet.…

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-- PSP Mobile: Sony (NYSE: SNE) Computer Entertainment announced today that it had partnered up with Skype to turn the PlayStation Portable (PSP) into a device that could make and…

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Japanese child-targeted portal Kids goo conducted a survey on mobile phone use, with the results in What Japan Thinks. Bearing in mind all the problems with self-selected respondees to a…

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While the Australian Government is getting slammed on the internet for its proposal to require telecommunication companies to filter online and mobile access to adult content, the Japanese Government has…

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We’re closed for the rest of the year, hence running on headlines until Jan 2: -- DoCoMo To Offer Google Services: Japan’s NTT DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) is in talks with…

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Most Japanese seem to have fairly steady mobile phone usage habits if a self-reported survey is anything to go by. What Japan Thinks reports that 61.3 percent of respondents said…

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When the news surfaced that Steve Jobs was talking to DoCoMo (NYSE: DCM) president Masao Nakamura, it was widely assumed that bringing the iPhone to Japan would be a slam…

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Facebook and MySpace may be all the rage in the US and Europe, but in Japan, homegrown Mixi is the country’s most popular social networking site. But the site—which started…

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Having conquered the US and some of the European markets, Apple (NSDQ: AAPL) is gearing up to sell the iPhone in mobile-crazy Japan. The Wall Street Journal reports that Apple…

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South Korean operators are turning to online and mobile advertising as an alternative revenue source—thanks to pressure both from politicians and consumers to lower the price of mobile phone bills,…

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Mobile is the lynch pin of the communications sector, driving its growth and accounting for 53 percent of total telecoms revenues, according to the UK regulator Ofcom in their exhaustive…

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Just as Nokia (NYSE: NOK) is gunning for the US market, so too are Asian wireless firms. The lure: the potential that these players see in the country’s mobile internet…

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[by Blake Robinson] Many bestselling novels in Japan are now being written on mobile. They’re called “keitai shousetsu” and comprise half of Japan’s top-10 works of fiction from 2007. Each…

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Analyst company Screen Digest claims there are more than 15 million mobile TV subscribers in Asia but the revenues from the industry are “miserable”, reports RapidTV News. Apparently Japan has…

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