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Article | 28/03/2012 Japan's DeNA to offer mobile games on official sites of China's three largest carriers

DeNA, a major mobile platform operator in Japan, said Wednesday it has signed deals with China's three largest carriers to offer its games through the...

Article | 27/03/2012 Foxconn parent invests US$806 million in Japan Sharp, buys LCD plant share

Hon Hai Precision Industry, the parent company of Foxconn Electronics and one of the world's largest electronics manufacturers, will acquire a stake o...

Article | 26/03/2012 Sony to launch PlayStation 3 photo suite this week, to link with cloud service

Sony said Monday it will sell new photo editing software for the PlayStation 3 this week, as it prepares for the global launch of its cloud-based phot...

Article | 26/03/2012 Google ordered to remove auto-complete results for Japanese man's name

Google has been ordered by a Tokyo court to remove auto-complete results that link a man to crimes he says he didn't commit.

Article | 23/03/2012 Japanese university to battle eel fraud with cheap, rapid DNA testing

A science institute in central Japan says it has devised a system to stop eel fraud using cheap DNA testing, as the summer surge in the foodstuff's po...

Article | 23/03/2012 Elpida Memory begins corporate reorganization, after February bankruptcy filing

Japan's Elpida Memory, the world's third-largest maker of DRAM, said Friday it will officially begin reorganization proceedings and submit a final pla...

Article | 23/03/2012 Panasonic rice cooker can exchange recipes with Android app via RFID

Panasonic will launch a new line of rice cookers from June that can save recipes and settings online, using touch-card technology to sync with an Andr...

Article | 22/03/2012 NEC to acquire Convergys data management business for US$449 million

NEC will acquire the information management business of Convergys for about US$449 million, to strengthen its telecommunications software products tar...

Article | 22/03/2012 Toshiba to launch camera SD cards with Wi-Fi file sharing in U.S. from summer

Toshiba will launch its new line of Wi-Fi enabled SD memory cards in the U.S. from summer, a company executive said Thursday, in a challenge to establ...

Article | 22/03/2012 NEC to add mini earthquake sensors to its cloud-based device platform

NEC said Wednesday it will add small earthquake sensors to the growing set of devices that work on its cloud-based network platform.

Article | 22/03/2012 Fujitsu tech can tell when you're stressed on the phone, vulnerable to scams

Japanese technology giant Fujitsu said it has developed a system that can determine when someone is being targeted by a phone scam.

Article | 16/03/2012 Hundreds of Apple faithful line up in Tokyo for launch of new iPad

Hundreds lined up in Tokyo, some for a day and a half, for a chance to buy Apple's new iPad early Friday.

Article | 16/03/2012 Second Japanese carrier launches high-speed LTE mobile data network

EMobile, a Japanese mobile provider, on Thursday launched the country's second LTE network for high-speed mobile data access.

Article | 16/03/2012 Toshiba to launch SD memory cards with 90MBs write speeds this year

Toshiba will launch high-speed SD memory cards this year in Japan and abroad that can read data at up to 95MB per second and write at 90MB per second.

Article | 10/03/2012 A year after killer tsunami, Sony factory faces tough reality

The story of this Sony factory, which took the full brunt of a powerful tsunami that washed through a year ago, reflects that of much of Japan's north...