Sharp Corp. has brought an LCD with 108-inch diagonal screen on the market.
It delivered the LCD to the newly-opened cinema complex Shinjuku Piccadilly in Tokyo, Japan this month.
The price is based on the bilateral contract, but the reference price is ¥11 million.
Why don't you have one in the living room?
Mon July 21, 2008
A 108-inch LCD on the wall in the cinema complex in Tokyo, Japan
Mon July 14, 2008
Half of DoCoMo keitais ready for mobile wallet
NTT DoCoMo Inc. announced on July 10 that the number of subscriptions to the mobile wallet service “Osaifu Keitai” has reached 30 million.
The number makes up more than 50% of the total subscriptions.
In fact, the mobile wallet functionality is not implemented in the iPhone 3G.
Is the announcement also DoCoMo's useless resistance to emphasize its advantage, as well as BlackBerry for consumers?
Sat July 12, 2008
Ten-second delayed live broadcasting from Beijing
The Chinese Communist Party has told the TV stations to delay for ten seconds the Beijing Olympics Games being broadcast, the Hong Kong-based newspaper reported on July 8.
The delaying manipulation is intended for veiling inconvenient scenes from the audience in front of TV.
The scenes include the athletes' political propaganda activities.
Fri July 11, 2008
BlackBerry to go on sale for consumers in Japan (2)―DoCoMo's impatience?
NTT DoCoMo Inc. will launch the BlackBerry for consumers on August 1.
The BlackBerry handset itself is expected to carry a street price of around ¥30,000.
The BlackBerry service for consumers is referred to as BlackBerry Internet Service (BIS), the monthly fee of which will be ¥3,045.
In addition to the fee, the user will need to pay the DoCoMo FOMA charge and the packet communications fee.
However, why did DoCoMo announce the launch of the BlackBerry for consumers at this time?
DoCoMo seems to feel pressed to retain their users who consider moving to iPhone 3G.
Thu July 10, 2008
iPhone 3G to hit Omotesando shelves at 7am on July 11
Softbank Mobile (SBM) Corp. announced Tuesday that it will begin to sell iPhone 3G at noon on July 11 throughout Japan.
SBM's flagship shop, Softbank Omotesando in Tokyo, however, will do at 7am.
In front of the shop, about a 10-meter queue formed at 4pm on Tuesday.
Mon July 07, 2008
Dubbing 10 glitch on Panasonic's recorder
On the day the Dubbing 10 system began to operate, July 4, a glitch was found out on some recorders from Panasonic.
The glitch resulted from the Dubbing 10-ready software downloaded over-the-air.
The recorder malfunction occurred as follows:
The malfunction led to the displayed message “Do you want to format the disk?” or something like that, probably in Japanese.
If the user had then selected “Yes,” the TV programs recorded on the HD and/or the configuration settings done on the recorder would have evaporated.
When you encounter the message, press the power button of the recorder without pulling out the power plug from the outlet, in order to boot the downloaded software properly.
On July 4, Panasonic received about 300 complaints about the malfunction, four of which were related to the case in which the TV programs recorded on the HD were erased.
The company recognized the glitch on June 2 and revised the software on June 3, but finally unveiled it on June 4.
Panasonic is to blame for such sluggish user support: the company must have unwisely thought that it would withdraw the glitch from consideration if the revised software worked well without malfunction.
Sun July 06, 2008
Speed limit to be set for iPhone 3G to access some websites
Softbank Mobile (SBM) Corp. announces that it will possibly limit communication speed when iPhone 3G connects to certain websites which flow a lot of data into the network.
The limitation will be imposed to prevent the users' outrageous operations of iPhone 3G that burden the network too heavily, according to the officials.
