Motion-sensing comes to mobile phones
The same technology used in Nintendo's popular Wii video game console that lets you bowl strikes and hit tennis volleys like you're Venus Williams is also making its way into mobile handsets.
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26.3.2007 Xbox 360 Newton Motion Sensing Controller Confirmed
I can now confirm the existence of the Xbox Wiimote clone project and I can tell you the project code name : "Newton"
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10.4.2007 Microsoft kills Zune 'fuel cell' talk
Microsoft has insisted it won't resell the fuel-cell battery rechargers it’s buying from Medis Technologies, contrary to reports.
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18.4.2007 I Still Believe in a Microsoft Phone
Michael Gartenberg says I'm wrong about the Microsoft phone. Not so fast, Michael.
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27.11.2008 The Linux phone
With thousands of phones in the market, companies are looking for ways to cut costs to give the users the best overall experience, along with a cheap price tag to attract a user base.
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9.2.2009 I Run Windows 7 Big in Japan
Microsoft is in the final stages of the development process for the next iteration of the Windows client. With RTM planned by the end of July 2009 and worldwide General Availability scheduled for October 22, the Redmond company has unveiled a set of initiatives designed to build up to Windows 7 hitting the shelves.
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6.7.2009 Xbox 360 Off to Slow Start in Japan
Microsoft may have to try a little harder in marketing the Xbox 360 to Japanese consumers if initial reports coming out of the country Saturday are correct. According to several press outlets, reaction to the new console from Japanese customers appeared to be somewhat apathetic.
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11.12.2005 Xbox 360 In Japan Selling Almost As Well As PS3
Another sign of Sony’s sinking fortunes came out last week, when the Japanese hardware sales chart showed that the Xbox 360 was gaining on it.
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29.6.2007 Windows 7 pre-orders sold out in Japan
Microsoft's upcoming Windows operating system, Windows 7, is slated for an October 22 release; however, the Redmond software giant allowed people to begin pre-ordering much earlier to beat the rush... and it seems this offer was quite well received in Japan.
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30.6.2009 Windows 7 Seeing fantastic Sales in Japan, Says Ballmer
Initial sales of Windows 7, Microsoft's newest operating system, were "fantastic" in Japan and helped spur PC sales in the country, CEO Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
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5.11.2009 Microsoft My Phone beta
Coming soon. Microsoft® My Phone syncs information between your mobile phone and the web, enabling you to.
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7.2.2009 PS3 launch in Japan Spring 2006 under US$400?
So we got a tip from some guy who kind of knows somebody who is friends with a dude at Joystiq who posted about a 1UP story linking to a Japanese blog called CoolGamer that 1UP says has been pretty spot on with gaming news in the past.
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Japan-only 20th Anniversary Edition Windows XP
Localization be damned, since Microsoft has decided to release a special edition of Windows XP only in Japan to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the first Windows. Finding details about what has changed versus previous XPs is difficult (probably because nothing changed), but we do know that it will feature a special ?20th anniversary edition? desktop theme. Err, does that even count?
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22.11.2005 Microsoft switches Japan Xbox chief, not strategy
The new head of Microsoft Corp's Xbox division in Japan acknowledges that sales of the game console have not fully met expectations, but says there will not be a major shift in strategy following a slow start.
"Sales have not necessarily lived up to everyone's expectations since launch," Takashi Sensui, who was tapped on Thursday to replace Yoshihiro Maruyama as general manager of the Xbox division in Japan, told Reuters in a phone interview.
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16.2.2006 88,400 PS3s Sold in Japan in 2 Days
Supplies of the PlayStation 3 are all but gone after retailers blew through their inventory in under a week, Japanese gaming magazine Enterbrain reported. 88,400 units were sold over the weekend, nearly all of the 100,000 units initially available.
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13.11.2006 Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 price in Japan
TOKYO - Microsoft is slashing Xbox 360 prices in Japan by about 13 percent as the price war among video game consoles heats up around the world ahead of the key year-end shopping season.
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22.10.2007 Microsoft slashes Xbox 360 price in Japan
Refusing to give up on the game console market in Asia/Pacific, Microsoft has cut the price of its Xbox 360 console in Japan, and is also adding a new model.
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2.9.2008 Microsoft Xbox 360 outsells PS3 in Japan
Microsoft Corp's Xbox 360 outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 in Japan in September, beating the rival machine in monthly unit sales for the first time in Sony's home market, a game magazine publisher said.
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5.10.2008 Microsoft aiming to sell 1m Xbox 360s in Japan
Xbox Japan's business manager, Yoshihiro Maruyama, has announced that Microsoft is aiming to sell 1 million Xbox 360 units in the region by summer 2006.
In an editorial published in Dengeki Xbox 360 magazine, Maruyama wrote: "It's only a target, but the one million mark is a figure we'd like to reach by next summer."
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5.12.2005 Office 12 Coming to a Smart Phone Near You
From Microsoft Watch:
Office 12 Beta 1 is due to hit any day now. We still don't know which pieces of the next-gen Office family will go to testers, or even how many Office 12 SKUs are likely to debut when the product goes gold in the latter half of next year.
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15.11.2005 Samsung SPH-G1000 Gaming Phone
Samsung has recently launched the SPH-G1000 and SCH-G100 gaming phones in Korea. These phones are powered by powerful industry-leading 3D accelerator and vibration capability, make them quite promising for gamers. Controls which include a dedicated gaming joypad and a multi-key which operates in 8 directions are ergonomic and comfortable. For more detail, check out the specs below.
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24.11.2005 Google First Android Phone Released in New York
Yesterday, the highly anticipated launch of the Android phone took place in New York. Google's first-born “baby” phone was officially named G1, and is manufactured by HTC.
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24.9.2008 First Android phone in stores today and tomorrow
While I like the fact that T-Mobile let us existing customers pre-order the T-Mobile G1 the day it was announced last month, the benefit of pre-ordering seems to have lost that huge advantage I was thinking we were gaining.
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21.10.2008 Microsoft, MCI Plan PC-To-Phone Service again
Microsoft and MCI said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones. But the service will permit only outbound calls at first, even as rivals Yahoo and America Online allow instant messaging users to receive calls from conventional phones as well as to call out.
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13.12.2005 Microsoft, MCI plan PC-to-phone service
VoIP service will allow with outbound calling during tests
Microsoft Corp. and MCI Inc. said Monday they'll soon offer a service that lets customers place calls from their personal computers to regular phones.
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14.12.2005 Samsung To Release 10 Megapixel Camera Phone
Samsung Electronics will put a 10-megapixel camera phone on the market in South Korea shortly. The mobile phone was first shown at Cebit in Germany in March this year and was originally due to launch in the second quarter.
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11.10.2006 Microsoft clarifies WGA Notifications "phone home"
Microsoft responds to "WGA Phones home" issue, on the MSDN blog.
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9.3.2007 Zune phone? Ballmer says focus is Windows Mobile
Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer answered questions Thursday night at a USA Today CEO Forum on the University of Washington campus, and at one point interviewer David Lieberman of USA Today asked about Microsoft's plans for a Zune phone.
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26.4.2007 Microsoft unveils hardware for Web phone push
Microsoft Corp. introduced on Sunday phones, headsets and other devices to work with its software that aim to replace the traditional office phone and deliver e-mails, instant messages and phone calls over the Internet.
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14.5.2007 Microsoft Japan sees 80 Xbox 360 games by year-end
Microsoft Corp.'s Japan unit said on Thursday Xbox 360 game console users in Japan will have more than three times as many game titles available by December as now, a move seen as preparing itself for an upcoming battle with Sony Corp.'s PlayStation 3.
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6.4.2006Japan Promotes Wallet Phone to the World
Japan has started an initiative to promote its "wallet phone" technology overseas according to an
Associated Press article. The
initiative is led by the government along with a collection of Japanese cell phone manufacturers and carriers participating.
According to Masayuki Ito, an official at the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications, the initiative is an attempt to help promote
Japanese cell phones outside of the home market. Japanese cell phones have failed to become popular outside of the Japanese market despite being some
of the most sophisticated cell phones in the world, incorporating features such as the ability to watch television and make purchases.
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25.08.2008Microsoft Mum on Motion Control Rumors
In line with policy, Microsoft has declined to comment on rumors of a motion-sensing Xbox 360 controller add-on.
Microsoft has
contracted an outside firm that will be producing a first-party motion-control peripheral by the end of next year, according to a news post this week
at
XboxFamily.com.
The young website said that motion control experts at Saratoga, Calif.-based Gyration are currently working on a prototype for a motion-sensing
add-on for existing Xbox 360 controllers. XboxFamily.com did not name the source of the information.
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29.12.2007US gov't cannot use cell phone IDs without a warrant, court affirms
How much does your cell phone say about who you are and where you are? Last year, the US government wanted the authority to use the information cell
phones put out naturally in its own investigations. Yesterday, a judge said no...
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11.09.2008Sanyo offloads cell phone arm to Kyocera, but brand will survive
You'll still be able to get a cell phone with Sanyo's name on it, if that's what you want. But now, the troubled Japanese electronics manufacturer
will be selling its mobile phone business to Kyocera for around $374 million...
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22.01.2008Cell Phone Includes Internet
Telephony Capability
UTStarcom's GF200 could be
great for consumers, but cell
phone companies have reason to
fear it..
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07.01.2006Fujitsu Unveils Big-Screen TV Phone
In the world of cell phones,
it's the equivalent of a
big-screen TV. Fujitsu Ltd.'s
F904i, which goes on sale in
Japan on Friday, packs a
3.1-inch widescreen display--
the largest yet seen on a
handset with digital TV
reception.
When the
clamshell phone is opened up,
the 16:9 screen sits
vertically but a clever mount
means it can be twisted
horizontally to the left or
right allowing TV shows to be
watched in widescreen with no
letterboxing, which are the
back bars seen above and below
a widescreen image on a
conventional TV. It also makes
Web site browsing much easier
than on a conventional cell
phone screen. The phone also
packs a browser for the PC as
well as mobile Internet.
If an e-mail comes in
while TV is being watched, the
phone displays an alert. Users
can continue watching TV while
reading or sending a reply--
thanks to the widescreen
display...
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30.05.2007Microsoft Japan: We can learn from Wii
Microsoft for years has been trying to bring more consumers into computer gaming, but Nintendo was the company that figured out how to do it, said
Yasutoshi Magara, managing director of Microsoft Japan, in a briefing at Ceatec Japan 2007, the country's big technology trade show.
The Xbox 360, Magara said, was designed mostly with a relatively well-defined demographic in mind, namely 18- to 30-year-old males into networking
games.
"They (the console developers at Microsoft) start there," he said.
By contrast, Nintendo, with the
launch of its Wii motion-sensing console, aimed for the family and developed games that kids and parents might play together.
"It was a question of whether that would be accepted," he said. "It was very well accepted."
He declined to comment on
whether Microsoft might move in the direction of doing similar sports games. By the way, Magara himself owns a Wii, he said.
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02.10.2007Microsoft Demos PC, Cell Phone
Combo
Microsoft is currently
developing a new cell phone
operating system that it would
market as low-cost computing
alternative in developing
nations. Called FonePlus, the
current iteration of the
product is essentially the
WebTV platform running on a
mobile phone...
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29.07.2006Analysts: Americans prefer cell phone, PC customer service to cable TV
Twenty percent of cable customers now say phone calls to companies don't solve their problems, according to a new survey. Meanwhile, cell phone
providers are coming up with answers faster, and PC users are finding useful info on the Web...
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02.07.2008Cell Phone Spending Surpasses Land Lines
With Americans cutting the cord to their land lines, 2007 is likely to be the first calendar year in which U.S. households spend more on cell phone
services, industry and government officials say. The most recent government data show that households spent $524, on average, on cell phone bills
in 2006, compared with $542 for residential and pay-phone services.
By now, though, consumers almost certainly spend more on their
cell phone bills, several telecom industry analysts and officials said. "What we're finding is there's a huge move of people giving up their
land line service altogether and using cell phones exclusively," said Allyn Hall, consumer research director for market research firm In-Stat. As
recently as 2001, U.S. households spent three times as much on residential phone services as they did on cell phones.
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18.12.2007Dell Snags Motorola Mobile Phone Chief
Dell has hired the former head
of Motorola's cell phone
division to head its new
global consumer division
beginning on Monday. Ron
Garriques will resign
immediately from the cell
phone manufacturer...
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17.02.2007Wii Japan sales overwhelm PS3
Nintendo's Wii video-game console outsold Sony's PlayStation 3 by more than four to one in Japan in April-September, game magazine publisher
Enterbrain said on Monday. Nintendo sold about 1.6 million units of the Wii over 26 weeks through September 23 in its home market, compared with
385,492 units of the PS3 sold, Enterbrain said.
The Wii features a motion-sensing controller that lets users direct on-screen
action by swinging it like a racket or sword, helping widen the machine's appeal. Sony's PS3 suffered a slow start since its launch last November
due to its high price and scarcity of strong software titles.
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02.10.2007Digital Gear: Postcards From
Cell-Phone Land
Send postcards from your cell
phone, listen to music and
conversation with the same
headset, put your videos on
DVD, and watch a really big
show...
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20.10.2005Vonage Debuts Cell-like Wi-Fi
Phone
Vonage and UTStarcom on
Tuesday announced a cell
phone-like device that will
allow customers to use their
Vonage accounts from anywhere
there is a Wi-Fi connection.
Initially, the phone will only
operate with public networks,
meaning hotspots like those in
Starbucks would not be
compatible...
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13.12.2005US cell phone camera law might not really click
Although its intent seems to be in the right place, a newly proposed US law imposing an audible alert on cell phone cameras raises thorny issues about
actual implementation in the real world...
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28.01.2009Exploding cell phone didn't kill Korean man
It was a story destined for big headlines: A cell phone battery exploded and caused the death of a man in South Korea. Fortunately for handset maker
LG Electronics, it just wasn't true...
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30.11.2007Poor nations soar in cell phone use while Web access lags
While the vast majority -- or two-thirds -- of the globe's cell phone subscriptions are now in less developed nations, the Internet is still much
less available there than in more advanced countries in North America, western Europe, and the Asia-Pacific, says a new study by a United Nations
agency.
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03.03.2009No Cell Phone-Cancer Risk, Large Study Says
In the latest study to address
the issue of cellular phones
and cancer, a Danish survey of
more than 420,000 cell phone
users who first subscribed to
service in the early 1980s
through the mid-1990s suggests
that there is no link...
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07.12.2006RIM Acquires PBX Software
Developer
Seemingly undeterred by its
recent lawsuit fight with
patent holding company NTP,
Research In Motion said Friday
it would acquire Ascendent
Systems, a San Jose,
Calif.-based maker of software
to connect cell phones and
corporate phone systems...
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11.03.2006Cell Phone Shipments Reach 1 Billion
For the first time, cell phone
shipments topped the one
billion mark in 2006, a feat
that was helped along by a 20
percent increase in shipments
during the holiday quarter to
295 million units, according
to research firm IDC...
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