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1. Fuel cells fail to fulfil their promise

   (Hardware/Hardware Features)

   Thursday, 22 October 2009

   Japanese giant Toshiba, long at the forefront of developing fuel cells, said it will sell its first direct methanol fuel cell (DMFC) product for mobile products in a limited edition on the 29th of October.Japanese ...

2. Toshiba may surrender to Blu-ray, finally

   (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

   Sunday, 19 July 2009

   ... February of last year, and trying to pitch an enhanced DVD player as a cheap alternative to Blu-ray late last year. Japan’s Yomiuri newspaper was reporting last week that Toshiba is now preparing the BD ...

3. Shortages continue on hectares of LCD glass

   (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

   Wednesday, 15 July 2009

   ... demand for the substrate continues to exceed supply. But the picture is different in Taiwan, Korea and Japan, said Tadashi Uno, director of materials and components research at Displaysearch. This table ...

4. New York is prime site for jet stream kites

   (Sustainability/Sustainability Features)

   Monday, 15 June 2009

   ... tethered, kite-like wind turbines transmitting energy to the ground via the tether. "We found the highest wind power densities over Japan and eastern China, the eastern coast of the United States, southern ...

5. Nintendo creates plan for additional Wii games titles

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Tuesday, 26 May 2009

   Japanese firm Nintendo is ready to expand video games for the Wii by third party publishers.Japanese firm Nintendo is ready to expand video games for the Wii by third party publishers. According to the ...

6. Greece takes a dim view of Street View

   (Software/Software Features)

   Wednesday, 13 May 2009

   ... has been collecting photographs in Greece since April. The service was launched in 2007 in the US, and has since been extended to the UK, Japan, Australia, New Zealand, France, Spain and Italy. This ...

7. Gmail lets you unsend email

   (Software/Software Features)

   Friday, 20 March 2009

   ... an engineer in Japan was utilized internally for testing. It has the ability to recall e-mail as long as it is done within five seconds (with an option to increase the unsend time window to 10 seconds). ...

8. Blu-ray gets simplified licensing

   (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

   Friday, 27 February 2009

   ... of Blu-ray discs and Blu-ray players and recorders in the market and in consumer homes. Tokyo (Japan) – Occasionally it just takes a lot of time to get something right. Blu-ray is not quite where ...

9. Apple absent from MWC, but iPhone still on everyone's lips

   (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

   Wednesday, 18 February 2009

   ... that brought U.S. car makers to the brink of extinction -- trying to compete on hardware merits alone. In the U.S. car market, efficiently engineered cars from Japan took the domestic market by surprise ...

10. Qualcomm adds RFID-enabled tech to cell-phones

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Wednesday, 11 February 2009

    ... as well as order-aide tools using this type of RFID technology in cell phones in both Japan and Korea -- though current implementations require more work on behalf of the user due to the physical plug-in ...

11. Overclock: Asus motherboard takes Intel Core i7 to 5.6 GHz!

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Friday, 23 January 2009

    ... This overclock was carried out by the same Japanese user as previously overclocked to 5.51 GHz, named duck. Chicago (IL) - Hot Hardware has posted a screenshot showing how an ASUS P6T6 WS Revolution ...

12. Microsoft expected to rebrand Live.com to Kumo.com

    (Software/Software Features)

    Monday, 24 November 2008

    ... in late 1998. Kumo Software Corporation was the first owner of the domain with first records of website activity dating back to early 1996. The name “Kumo” translates to "cloud" or "spider" in Japanese. ...

13. Surprise, surprise: U.S. broadband is slow. Really slow.

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Tuesday, 12 August 2008

    ... on these shores. The U.S. comes in 15th on a worldwide scale, far behind the leaders Japan, South Korea and Finland. Chicago (IL) – U.S. broadband speeds are the focus of a recently conducted study by ...

14. Apple battling Acer for the third spot in US computer shipments

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 21 July 2008

    ... shipments as the primary growth driver. According to the analyst, Apple is seeing notable growth in Japan where it shipped 130,000 Macs in the first quarter of 2008. The remaining two of the top five ...

15. Bill Gates Milestones: Part 2 (1980-1990)

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Wednesday, 25 June 2008

    ... launched in 1983. It was powered by MSX-DOS, a version of the DOS Microsoft made for the IBM PC. The system was popular in Europe, South America and Japan but it was short-lived due to rapid sales growth ...

16. Nintendo overtakes EA as top development studio

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Brief)

    Thursday, 10 April 2008

    ... to London-based Develop Magazine's annual list of the top-earning game studios, Nintendo's first-party development studio in Japan earned around $300 million in revenue, a 200% year-to-year increase.  ...

17. From the PMC to the iPhone and beyond: The evolution of the MID and Linux’ big break

    (Mobility/Mobility Opinion)

    Thursday, 10 April 2008

    ... superior to the market by the end of next year.    Until then, most of these devices will be Asia only which gives you another reason to go and visit China or Japan later in the year. Rob ...

18. HD DVD’s rise and fall: A timeline

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Tuesday, 19 February 2008

    ... marriage PC Pro   June 27 First big HD DVD event: DVD Forum: HD DVD Japan 2005 DVD Forum   July 14 Consumers ...

19. Lost Odyssey loses some of its charm due to technical issues

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Monday, 18 February 2008

    ... in the genre. See screenshots of Lost Odyssey ... The credit list for Lost Odyssey includes an award-winning novelist, a renowned music composer and a world-famous Japanese artist.  Production on ...

20. The CPU that Intel built just for Apple

    (Hardware/Hardware Opinion)

    Friday, 25 January 2008

    ... novel and, at the time, controversial PMOS design that it used in the 4004 microprocessor, which was released in 1971. This 4004 CPU was initially designed just for a company called Busicom, Japan-based ...

21. Camera overload – Sony rains down seven new cameras

    (Mobility/Mobility Features)

    Thursday, 24 January 2008

    ... cameras in their Cybershot line from low-end models to prosumer-level cameras with 10X optical zoom and Carl Zeiss lenses. Tokyo (Japan) – With the Photo Marketing Association’s (PMA) big convention ...

22. Move over X-Rays, make way for harmless T-Rays

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Tuesday, 27 November 2007

    ... University of Tsukuba (Japan).  The crystals comprise stacks of what are called Josephson junctions.  These exhibit unique electrical properties, ultimately creating the Josephson effect.  ...

23. Samsung touts TV-like 16:9 notebook LCDs

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Wednesday, 17 October 2007

    ... Japan, which takes place from October 24 to 26. The company plans to display a 16” and an 18.4” display which will support display resolution we are used to from HD TVs. The 16” version ...

24. Traveling Terabyte - The ultimate digital care package for overseas Marines

    (Hardware/Hardware Features)

    Thursday, 20 September 2007

    ... My favorites are all the classic James Bond movies,” Swain said, but he adds that he’s now become a big fan of Japanese anime cartoons that are also on the drives. “It’s absolutely ...

25. Hitachi develops 360 degree display technology

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 10 August 2007

    Hitachi has developed a new technology that can take a static object and turn it into a hologram-esque moving 3D image. Tokyo (Japan) - Hitachi has developed a new technology that can take a static ...

26. AMD’s four-three strategy to beat Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Opinion)

    Wednesday, 01 August 2007

    ... The first is an aggressive move against the company for past alleged anti-trust activity worldwide. This was initially successful in Japan and most recently spread to the European Union which has released ...

27. PSP online features edge out DS

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Opinion)

    Tuesday, 05 June 2007

    ... when it comes to other online services, Nintendo falls flat on its face. The DS browser software hit U.S. stores today, after months of being available in Europe and Japan.  I've spent some hands-on ...

28. Cisco router snafu disconnects Japan from the Net

    (Networking/Networking Features)

    Thursday, 17 May 2007

    Thousands of Cisco routers belonging to Nippon Telephone and Telegraph East failed on Tuesday and knocked out millions of Japanese broadband Internet customers. Tokyo Japan - Thousands of Cisco routers ...

29. Scalers beat HD DVD and Blu-ray at CES 2007 - analysis

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Features)

    Wednesday, 17 January 2007

    ... 96% of the Japanese market, which led to the conclusion that this technology would have the clear lead by 2010 Blu-ray. At CES, HD-DVD folks suddenly looked like a deer caught in the headlights as they ...

30. Sony launches Playstation 3 in the U.S.

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Friday, 17 November 2006

    ... Best Buy cancels PS3 pre-orders Lines begin to form at retail locations for PS3 Sony gets strong PS3 start in Japan ... PS3 technology: PS3 firmware update required out-of-box PS3 controller looks a little ...

31. Graphics power is key to playing HD videos on a PC

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 28 July 2006

    ... movies currently sold in the US use VC-1 or MPEG-2 HD compression with varying bit rates - typically much lower than 15 Mb/s; movie enthusiasts in Japan are also able to buy movies encoded in H.264 with ...

32. A battery-powered plane takes off

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Brief)

    Thursday, 20 July 2006

      In a brief article, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that a manned plane has flied on AA batteries in Japan yesterday. In a brief article, the Agence France-Presse (AFP) reports that a manned ...

33. iSuppli's LCD sales data points to the final swan song for CRTs

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Wednesday, 07 June 2006

    ... are Chinese, with Korean brands slipping to second place, Japanese brands third. ISuppli analyst Riddhi Patel reported, "With the Japanese OEMs shifting their attention to flat-panel technologies, the ...

34. Nintendo prices Wii game console "below" $250

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Thursday, 25 May 2006

    ... "will not exceed $250 in America, or 25,000 yen in Japan." That price - presumably $249 - will include the console itself as well as the motion sensitive controller that was demonstrated for the first ...

35. Lara Croft to return in Tomb Raider: Legends on 11 April

    (Games and Entertainment/Games and Entertainment Features)

    Wednesday, 05 April 2006

    ... games. Croft finds herself in a mission to uncover a precious artifact while battling a dangerous figure from her past. Legends takes the protagonist from Bolivia to Peru, Kazakhstan and Japan. Fashion ...

36. IT forensic investigators peer into the minds of criminals

    (Trendwatch/Trendwatch Features)

    Friday, 18 November 2005

    ... business fights and intellectual property theft crimes. He recounts an interesting case where two Japanese companies sued each other over a stolen soup recipe. The companies often will fight for lost prestige, ...

37. Elpida ships DDR3 memory modules to Intel

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 14 November 2005

    ...  Tokyo (Japan) - Elpida today said that it has begun shipping samples of next-generation DDr3 memory to Intel. Commercial volume availability of the memory is not expected to arrive before the second ...

38. PalmSource Joins OSDL

    (Business and Law/Business and Law Features)

    Monday, 17 October 2005

      PamSource, recently acquired by Japanese software company Access Co, but still the center of a legal argument between Palm and Motorola, takes a major step towards Linux. PamSource, recently acquired ...

39. Apple takes the fight to Sony's heartland

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 05 August 2005

    ... launching an iTunes online music store into Japan. Apple with its iPod digital player is rapidly stealing Sony's mantle for being the top purveyor of mobile music (with its Walkman range). Read the complete ...

40. Sony takes bite out of Apple's iPod in Japan

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Thursday, 14 July 2005

    ... device in Japan. Apple is still squashing Sony in Europe and North America, where the iPod has achieved iconic status and a big selling point is the availability of iTunes, an easy-to-use music downloading ...

41. Japan takes lead in OLED manufacturing equipment

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 03 June 2005

      While Taiwan and Korea are expected to remaine the dominant places where current and next-generation flat panel displays will be built, Japan has positioned itself become the dominant supplier for ...

42. New camcorders from JVC

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Tuesday, 12 April 2005

      JVC announced two new camcorders in Japan. JVC announced two new camcorders in Japan. The GR-X5 has a 1.3 megapixel 3CCD eye and takes still pictures at a 5 megapixel resolution. It is also 16/9-compatible. ...

43. Video chief: Sony correcting mistakes

    (Consumer Electronics/Consumer Electronics Brief)

    Thursday, 20 January 2005

      Sony missed out on potential sales from MP3 players and other gadgets because it was overly proprietary about music and entertainment content, the head of Sony's video-game unit acknowledged Thursday. ...

44. More than 100 million DSL subscribers in early 2005 - report

    (Networking/Networking Brief)

    Thursday, 09 December 2004

    ... China maintained its position as the as the world's leading DSL country counting 13.7 million lines in the third quarter. Japan takes second spot with 12.7 million lines and the USA now a close third with ...

45. NEC takes stake in Transmeta

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Thursday, 25 March 2004

      Japanese chip maker NEC said on Thursday it licensed Transmeta's power leakage management technology and cemented the alliance by taking a small stake in the U.S. Japanese chip maker NEC said ...

46. XBOX News: Japan Beta Ends / 250,000 Subscribers / XBOX Media Player

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 10 January 2003

    ... that at least for the moment, Microsoft is already out to a big lead in the online console sweepstakes. In the mean time, the XBOX LIVE beta in Japan has ended. Beta testers in Japan had very positive ...

47. Xbox Hits the Streets as Planned

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 16 November 2001

    ... price of $299, and is now said to be available at more than 15,000 retail locations across North America. According to The Inquirer, Xbox won't appear in The UK next spring for at £299, and in Japan ...

48. Sega lawyers threaten game forums

    (Hardware/Hardware Brief)

    Friday, 06 October 2000

    ... Dreamcast games. Japanese researchers at the Nagoya University Graduate School of Engineering have found a way to use beams from cheap, highly focused continuous-wave lasers to create three-dimensional ...