Walls collapse in the home of walled-gardens

The three major Japanese mobile-phone service providers in the home of ‘walled-gardens’ are making their smartphone content offerings available to rival companies’ customers as they focus more on content services, the Nikkei reported this week. That may...

Simple cell service saves lives

No-one has escaped the traumatic images of the earthquake and tsunami destruction in Japan, the latest in a string of natural disasters to hit the Asia Pacific region in recent months. Thousands have been killed and injured so far, but the loss of life has likely been...

Japan has a yen for attracting mobile advertising dollars!

The constant stream of analyst predictions about the rise in mobile advertising may finally be coming true if a recent on the Japanese market is any indication. Japan’s five commercial analogue TV networks are reporting falling revenues from the usual causes including...