Microsoft finally launching XBox Kinect in Japan this weekend, and Takashi Sensui(MS Japanese Home & Entertainment division general manager) can hardly believe it, in a way. “It’s been two or three years since I first became aware of the Kinect project, but it seems a lot quicker than that,” he told Famitsu magazine in this [...]
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Apple iAd Service to be launched in Europe this week
November 16, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Apple is expected to announce a slate of European partners for its iAd’s mobile advertising this week. However, the accomplishment has come at a cost for the Cupertino, Calif. company. Along with two delays and some concessions on pricing, the same questions over iAd practices are following Apple from the U.S. to Europe. The European [...]
LifeTouch – New Android Tablet from NEC
November 14, 2010 By Leave a Comment
NEC has released its new LifeTouch Android tablet. After such a long time waiting, the real LifeTouch Android tablet was coming at last. With that being said, the company has launched its new LifeTouch Android tablet in Japan officially. It comes with lot of first-rate features, the 7-inch LCD LifeTouch has a touch panel and [...]
Nissan Recall 2010 : Over 2 Million Cars Worldwide due to Faulty Engine System
October 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nissan recalls 2 million cars worldwide. Japan’s third-largest automaker Nissan Motor Co. said Thursday it is recalling a total of 2.14 million vehicles in nine models worldwide due to a faulty engine control system. The cars that are being recalled currently were produced in Japan, the U.S., Great Britain, Spain, China and Taiwan with nearly [...]
Sony Drops “PSP Go” Price to Increase Sales
October 25, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Sony has announced that it will drop the price of the PSP Go portable gaming system from $249 to $199. Even after the price cut, the PSP Go is still more expensive than some of its competitors, like the Nintendo Dsi XL, Dsi and Dsi Lite, but we’re also talking about different hardware. Now, with [...]
Sony Drops its 30 Years Old “Cassette Walkman” Production
October 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Time to retire those tapes, After retiring the floppy disk in March, Sony has halted the manufacture and distribution of another now-obsolete technology: the cassette Walkman, the first low-cost, portable music player. The company made its last shipment of the cassette Walkmans to the Japanese market earlier this year — and when they’re gone from [...]
Toshiba Announces the First Glasses-Free 3D HDTV Release in December
October 4, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Toshiba Corp. today that it will be the first company to bring a glasses-free 3D TV to market. The launch is planned for late December, and in Japan only. Two initial models, the 20-inch 20GL1 and 12-inch 12GL1, will both be based on the parallax barrier approach found in the Nintendo 3DS. The approach requires [...]
Nintendo 3DS Details and Reviews Unveiled
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Nintendo 3DS Specs and Release Date Announced
September 30, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nintendo President Satoru Iwata made the announcement at a Wednesday news conference in Chiba, Japan, which is near Tokyo. The 3DS, the latest generation of the DS line of portables, is unique in that people can play 3D games and view 3D content without the use of special glasses. Nintendo, which is battling a slump [...]
Nintendo 3DS US Release Confirmed for March 2011
September 29, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Nintendo’s 3DS, the first portable game device with a 3D screen, will go on sale in Japan on February 26, and in Europe, Australia and the U.S. in March. The iconic gaming company’s much-buzzed-about hand-held 3-D device will go on sale in Japan in February, Nintendo President Satoru Iwata said at a Tokyo news conference. [...]
Mouse Computer Japan Brings LuvPad AD100 Android Tablet with Tegra 2
September 12, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Japanese Company Mouse Computer plans to launch a 10 inch tablet with an NVIDIA Tegra 2 processor and Google Android 2.2 Froyo later this month. Named the LuvPad AD100, the tablet is one more in the 10 inch category. But perhaps the best thing about the LuvPad is that it comes with Android 2.2 right [...]
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