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Article | 1/03/2013 Japan's DoCoMo launches Twitter-based Yellow Pages

Japanese carrier NTT DoCoMo has launched a Twitter-based Yellow Pages service that offers information about regions around the country.

Article | 28/02/2013 Sony continues to offload assets, sells Tokyo complex for $1.2 billion

Sony, striving for its first annual profit in five years, said Thursday it sold a Tokyo office complex for about US$1.2 billion.

Article | 28/02/2013 Tokyo court rules Apple doesn't violate Samsung patent

A Tokyo court ruled Thursday that Apple did not infringe a Samsung patent, a small win for Apple in the continuing legal wrangling between the two com...

Article | 26/02/2013 Toshiba demos Lytro chip, converts phones to light-field cameras

Toshiba plans to add something new to the tiny cameras in smartphones -- depth.

Article | 26/02/2013 SD cards for SeeQVault DRM standard coming soon from Toshiba

Toshiba will soon begin shipping flash memory cards that support the new SeeQVault mobile DRM standard it is backing with Samsung Electronics, Sony an...

Article | 25/02/2013 Sony's Xperia Tablet Z will go on sale in Q2 priced from $499

Sony's Xperia Tablet Z will go on sale globally in the second quarter, priced from US$499in the U.S.

Article | 22/02/2013 LOLCats and PC viruses - Japan gets a lesson in cybersecurity

National TV anchors struggle through explanations of the Tor anonymity network, while newspapers run detailed graphics on remote hacking software and ...

Article | 21/02/2013 Sony PS4 to sync with iOS, Android for dual screen gaming

Gamers on the new PlayStation 4 will have a lot to keep track of.

Article | 20/02/2013 Japan's NTT Com goes on global data center offensive

NTT Communications, the IT arm of Japan's main telecommunications operator, is aggressively expanding its data center operations outside the country a...

Article | 20/02/2013 Google videos draw hits in Japan, but Niconico is preferred hangout

Japanese Internet users watched videos on YouTube and other Google sites most in December, but spent more time on the highly social local site Niconic...

Article | 18/02/2013 Sony cuts PlayStation Vita price by a third in Japan

Sony will slash the price of its PlayStation Vita handheld game consoles by up to a third in Japan, it said Monday, weeks after it cut its sales targe...

Article | 15/02/2013 Buffalo sets February launch date for 'world's fastest' external PC hard drive

Buffalo Technology has set the end of this month as the launch date for its DriveStation DDR external hard disk enclosure, which uses a 1GB DRAM cache...

Article | 15/02/2013 Russian dashboard cameras, YouTube beam meteor explosion worldwide

As jumbled news reports of what appeared to be a meteor shower over Russia trickled out of the country, some of the best views of what happened were f...

Article | 14/02/2013 Twitter apps gain access to 'Top Tweets' with new API metadata

Twitter will soon give developers the ability to filter messages by popularity and language.

Article | 13/02/2013 Tokyo subways to test how mobile content affects passengers

Tokyo's subways will soon offer a new mobile app with free Wi-Fi access, then track if the information it provides changes passenger habits.