Technology / Tags / Japan

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Dec 21, 2007 @ 8:16am neoform

BusinessWeek -- The world's most sophisticated users of wireless technology may be unimpressed by Apple's high-tech gadget The Japanese fell for the iPod. So why should they not embrace the iPhone, too? It's tempting to think that Japan's love affair with Apple's (AAP.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu Jul 5, 2007 @ 1:36pm neoform

CNN -- Microsoft Corp. said on Thursday it would launch the advanced version of its Xbox 360 game console, Xbox 360 Elite, on October 11 in Japan, a country where sales of its game gear trail far behind rival machines from Nintendo Co. Ltd. and Sony Corp. The El.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue May 13, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Cigarette vending machines in Japan may soon start counting wrinkles, crow’s feet and skin sags to see if the customer is old enough to smoke. The legal age for smoking in Japan is 20 and as the country’s 570,000 tobacco vending machines prepare fo.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Thu May 1, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Japan's oldest giant panda, Ling Ling, a longtime star at Tokyo's largest zoo and a symbol of friendship with China, died Wednesday of heart failure, zookeepers said. Ling Ling was 22 years and seven months old, equivalent to about 70 human years, the.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Wed Mar 12, 2008 @ 8:20am neoform

MSNBC -- Japan is investigating a possible defect in Apple Inc.'s iPod after one of the popular digital music players reportedly shot out sparks while recharging, a government official said Wednesday. An official at the trade and economy ministry overseeing pro.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Fri Nov 30, 2007 @ 8:15am neoform

BusinessWeek -- Microsoft notes almost half the global smartphone market is in China, Japan, and the rest of the region, and plans to promote its mobile operating system in China. Chris Sorensen, Microsoft's lead product manager for its mobile communications business.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Mon Jun 11, 2007 @ 10:29am neoform

MSNBC -- A group of scientists in Japan have developed a robot that acts like a toddler to better understand child development. The Child-Robot with Biomimetic Body, or CB2, was developed by a team of researchers at Osaka University in western Japan and is desi.. Read More

TECHNOLOGY / NEWS Tue Apr 3, 2007 @ 11:17pm neoform

BusinessWeek -- Web Flash animation programs have opened new worlds, and better connections, to amateur animators equipped only with a PC and a dream Japan's multibillion dollar anime industry used to be dominated by a handful of major production companies. For decade.. Read More