The Next Innovation on Web Services will be out from Asia: Open Web Asia’08 Event Report | Asiajin (10)
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Why it is difficult for European and U.S. companies to advance into Asia. At the event to discuss about the future potential of the Asian Web “Open Web Asia ‘08″ held in Seoul, a lot of hot discussions were held. George Goduka who is the founder of Web2Asia - a full-service market entry partner and incubator for Western Internet Comanche in East Asia said “It is difficult for western internet companies to expand into Asia ...
Image Optimization Part 1: The Importance of Images (21)
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About the Author: Stoyan Stefanov is a Yahoo! web developer working for the Exceptional Performance team and leading the development of the YSlow performance tool. He also an open-source contributor, conference speaker and technical writer: his latest book is called Object-Oriented JavaScript. This is the first in a series of posts about image optimization. In this series, I’ll explore how images affect web site performance and what can you do to your images in order ...
au BOX: KDDI, Motorola and Opera intro new multimedia terminal in Japan (1)
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Yesterday KDDI, one of Japan’s many telecommunications powerhouses, held a press conference in Tokyo to present the so-called “au BOX” to the general public for the first time. “au” is KDDI’s cell phone brand and the reason why the company can call itself Japan’s second biggest cell phone carrier. Based on the Motorola VIP1830 IP, the au BOX is an integrated set top box that is supposed to bridge the gap between three different pieces ...
Is iPhone App Store really unique and advanced? (1)
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Wall Street Journal reported about how iPhone is not going well in Japan market. Like elsewhere, Japanese consumers lined up at stores in advance of the phone’s release on July 11, and many locations sold out almost immediately. Well, in Japan, the hype was somehow “produced”. As far as I heard, Softbank gathered 1,500 iPhone shipment to its flagship store at Omotesando, Tokyo and that information was known to loyal Apple fans beforehand, eventually they ...
Face Off: iPhone 3G and Japanese cellphones (1)
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iPhone 3G provided by Softbank on coming 11th July will be the first iPhone in Japan. Since Jobs’ announcement, there are bunch of Japanese medias and blogs have been discussing if iPhone 3G is worth buying. To clarify how iPhone and the latest Japanese cellphones spec are different, Asiajin called for comments on what functionalities they have/want/use, to potential Japanese iPhone buyers on Comparison Chart site Narabe. Here is the result, iPhone 3G and Japanese ...