Archive for the ‘Asia Pacific’ Category
Monday, January 7th, 2008
Apple with iTunes is selling music directly to the iPhone.
Nokia has their own music portal Ovi for music and games.
And we see Motorola acquiring companies to reinforce the music service it was offering in China, Taiwan and Hong Kong.
Interestingly mobile operators are not taking an active role to own the ...
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Tuesday, December 11th, 2007
No doubt, iPod is extremely successful in Japan, being one of the top selling iTunes stores. When iTunes Japan opened in August 2005, it sold one million songs in four days!! No wonder why the price of iPod in Japan is lower than in many other markets. The Japanese do ...
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Monday, December 10th, 2007
TechCrunch reported a few days ago the success of "mobile phone ebooks" in Japan. See article
I often fly to Tokyo for work. People there commute mainly on train. Japan has the best railway system in the world. Trains are so punctual you can actually use them to set your watch ...
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Saturday, December 8th, 2007
I have been in Tokyo this week, almost 2 years after I spent a few months living there.
The Telecom market has evolved specially in mobile, with eMobile as a new 3G player and with Vodafone, unable to cope with the specificities of the market, selling their Japanese operations ...
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