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Posted by on Dec 22, 2011 in Tech Articles | 1 comment

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Report: Nintendo 3DS Sales In Japan To Pass The 4 Million Mark Earlier Than Expected

Posted by on Dec 22, 2011 in Tech Articles | 1 comment

Report: Nintendo 3DS Sales In Japan To Pass The 4 Million Mark Earlier Than Expected Serkan Toto It’s a common platitude in the gaming industry: it’s the killer titles that make or break a video game system. One case in point is Nintendo whose 3DS sales in Japan, one of the biggest video game markets in the world, are expected to cross the four million mark two months earlier than expected.Just two weeks ago, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata said this will happen “in February next year”, but Japanese business daily The Nikkei is now reporting that cumulative domestic sales of the 3DS will reach four million before year-end. The newspaper is referring to stats from Tokyo-based market research company Enterbrain, which says Nintendo managed to sell a weekly record of 390,000 systems between December 12-18 (and 380,000 units between December 5 and 11). article Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 1324523382 –

Japan’s Top 3 Mobile Carriers Agree To Support Global NFC Standard

Posted by on Dec 22, 2011 in Tech Articles | 1 comment

Japan’s Top 3 Mobile Carriers Agree To Support Global NFC Standard Serkan Toto Japan, one of the most advanced mobile nations in the world, doesn’t want to be a “cell phone Galapagos” anymore, at least when it comes to payments over NFC. Paying with cell phones is already ubiquitous in Japan, but now the country’s top three telcos (NTT Docomo, KDDI au, and SoftBank Mobile) are trying to switch from the Nippon-only Osaifu Keitai system to the Type A and Type B NFC standards used globally.The problem for the carriers is that Osaifu Keitai (“Portable Wallet”), which is based on Sony’s FeliCa RFID smart card technology, isn’t compatible to the Type A and B NFC standards. Docomo, KDDI, and SoftBank have set up the so-called Japan Mobile NFC Consortium to coordinate the domestic adoption of those standards with “service suppliers and handset manufacturers”. article Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 1324527532 –

Amazon Stops Hiding Competitors’ E-Reading Apps On The Kindle Fire

Posted by on Dec 22, 2011 in Tech Articles | 1 comment

Amazon Stops Hiding Competitors’ E-Reading Apps On The Kindle Fire Robin Wauters Amazon has stopped pretending that a group of e-reading apps it allowed onto its Android Appstore weren’t available on the Kindle Fire. For whatever reason, the company was effectively hiding e-reading apps from companies like Wattpad, Kobo and Bluefire, even though they worked perfectly fine on the low-cost tablet computer.Confused about why its app didn’t appear for users on the Kindle Fire, which is proving to be quite a sought-after device, Wattpad engaged in conversations with some folks over at Amazon, which apparently led to a necessary change in policy for all makers of mobile e-reading apps.It’s unclear when Amazon started showing e-reading apps from rivals (including Wattpad’s) on Kindle Fire, exactly, but it seems they started appearing in listings sometime yesterday afternoon. Possibly, this was part of the Kindle Fire update that was delivered earlier this week. article Thursday, December 22nd, 2011 1324530482 –

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