Earnings season brought a lot of bad news for old-line cellphone makers with Blackberry, Nokia and Motorola all disappointing. Although results among game makers are more of a mixed bag, Nintendo’s latest mobile offering has flopped and hard, confirming the on-going shift to smartphones and tablets.
New and old technology proved its worth as a huge earthquake and devastating tsunami hit Japan.
Facebook is, at this moment in time, a flop in Japan, with several homegrown social networks much more popular. But why is this the case?
The Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) has had several successful missions. Unfortunately their latest mission to Venus was a bust. The Planet-C Venus Climate Orbiter missed its insertion point into the Venus atmosphere.
Maybe 3DTV isn’t such a waste of everyone’s time and money after all, because Toshiba is about to reveal the first glasses-free 3DTV set.
Although not all parties to the deal are yet willing to comment, it looks like Verizon and AT&T are joining forces with Discover and Barclay’s Bank to turn your smart phone into a credit card at long last.
It seems that Nintendo has a new enemy, and this time it isn’t a game manufacturer.
It took a while for the Japanese to warm up to the iPhone, and smartphones in general. But they’re bang up to speed now, and Apple is dominating the market.
Some companies lead, others follow. Sony has been an innovator in the past but now looks to have become a follower. But can this strategy really turn things around for the Japanese company?
Samsung Electronics now has sales that exceed those of Hewlett-Packard. The South Korean electronics giant is therefore the world’s largest technology company when measured by sales.
In what could be seen as a nod to science fiction, Japanese scientists are making detailed plans to gather solar energy in space where it is abundant and then beam that energy down to earth.
It seems that it was just yesterday that everyone was either dying to get a Wii or had just purchased one and was talking about how wonderful it was. Now, sales are way off and Nintendo is in pain.
I don’t know. Does designating 335,561 square miles of ocean as protected somehow make up for all the environmental laws and regulations that he has so cavalierly watered down? Will this designation somehow make the worst environmental President ever somehow an environmental hero?
Nintendo recently announced that the company will be looking to integrate video and food services into the Wii. The Wii is Nintendo’s latest video game console with Internet capability. There is a growing trend of merging technologies as seen with Sony’s PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360.
Japanese electronics and other goods are in high demand in China. Next month, a new internet shopping mall will open in China that will allow Chinese to pay for Japanese goods with the popular China UnionPay cards.
Usually, when we think of impulse purchases, our minds go to that alluring candy bar that we drop into our cart in the supermarket checkout aisle. Apparently that is not what the typical citizen of Japan thinks of, though. Two of the top 20 impulse buys in that island nation are the Wii Fit game console and the Apple iPhone. Items like candy are on the Japanese list, as well, although in slightly different forms than what their American counterparts would buy on impulse.
Faced with drastically lower global economic expectations, handset manufacturing giant Nokia says that they will pull out of the lucrative (but quirky) Japanese cell phone market, one of the largest in the world. Nokia has announced that they will stop developing and manufacturing handsets for Japanese partners NTT DoCoMo and Softbank Mobile, effective immediately.
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