19Dec

Sharp and KDDI announced the AQUOS Phone IS14SH

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Today Sharp and KDDI introduced in Japan yet another AQUOS Phone with the IS14SH and its slide out keyboard. Featuring Android 2.3, and a nice 960×540 3.7” New Mobile ASV Liquid crystal panel, the IS14SH also comes with a 8Mpix CMOS Camera, support of 720p video recording, microSDHC Card, 1Seg, Bluetooth 3.0, WiFi BGN and the usual Smart Link, and LISMO unlimited audio features in just 136g.

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12Oct

Japanese Telco KDDI Buys Content Delivery Network CDNetworks For $167 Million

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Quite big news from Asia’s web world today: Japanese telecommunications giant KDDI (US$40 billion revenue) announced [JP] it will buy an 85.5% stake in CDNetworks, the Korea-based content delivery network, for US$167 million.

KDDI says the plan is to turn the CDNetworks HQ in Seoul into a subsidiary and to expand its global business (CDNetworks also has offices in the US, China, Europe, and KDDI’s home market of Japan).

CDNetworks’ core product offering is a Web Performance Suite that accelerates web content delivery and application performance for customers. The company currently offers over 130 content storage points at servers located in a total of 70 cities in 31 countries. With the acquisition, KDDI wants to be ready for the projected mobile data traffic explosion over the next years (KDDI itself has over 30 million mobile subscribers in Japan).

CDNetworks was founded in Seoul in 2000, is listed at the Korean Stock Exchange and currently boasts over 1,200 customers worldwide (including LinkedIn, Yelp, or German social network StudiVZ). The company hit US$99 million in revenue last fiscal and claims sales have been growing 20% a year on average since 2007.


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Company:
KDDI
Website:
kddi.com

Tokyo-based KDDI Corporation is a Japanese telecommunications operator. It was created in 2000 through a merger of DDI, KDD and IDO and now employs over 15,000 people.

The company provides a broad range of services, including fixed-line phone communication, mobile phone and web services, and Internet services.

KDDI’s mobile phone and web arm is branded as “au”. The company is the current No. 2 in Japan’s mobile communications market, trailing NTT docomo and ahead of SoftBank.

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Company:
CDNetworks
Website:
cdnetworks.com
Launch Date:
January 5, 2000
Funding:
$96.5M

CDNetworks is the highest performing global content delivery network (CDN), providing unparalleled speed and reliability of website content and application delivery anywhere in the world. CDNetworks’ focus on cloud-based network performance and superior customer support set it apart from other CDNs. More than 1,100 companies across industries, including gaming, high tech, manufacturing, media, retail and software rely on CDNetworks to reach their website users while minimizing content and application delivery costs. With more than 100 points of presence across…

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26Sep

KDDI introduces the Kyocera DIGNO a new Super-Slim Waterproof Smartphone with WiMAX

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This is Kyocera’s first smartphone for the Japanese domestic market. The Kyocera DIGNO will be available on the au network as an autumn/winter 2011 model.
This model has a waterproof, slim body, and weighs 130 g. It runs Android 2.3, and supports WiMAX as well as 3G, enabling it to download data at speeds of up to 40 Mbps.
“So far, Kyocera has made feature phones, and released lots of slim models. Those include the SA001, the world’s slimmest model with mobile TV, and the …
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22Sep

Report: Japanese Mobile Carrier SoftBank To Lose iPhone Monopoly To KDDI

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It happened in the US a few months ago, and now something similar is about to happen in Japan, too: in one of Apple’s biggest markets, mobile carrier SoftBank is reportedly about to lose its exclusive domestic distribution rights for the iPhone and has to share the market with competitor KDDI.

Nikkei Business Online claims it has learned that KDDI au, Japan’s second biggest mobile carrier with 33 million customers, will provide the iPhone 5 starting next year. If the rumored roll-out of the phone next month will become reality in Japan, too, this means that SoftBank has a few months before its closest competitor can start tapping into their most important segment.

SoftBank has been Apple’s partner in Japan since August 2008 (when the iPhone 3G made its debut in Japan) and is also the exclusive provider of the iPad in this country. Gartner estimates that Apple, via SoftBank, has sold 7.5 million iPhones so far in Japan.

Nikkei Business also says the iPhone 5 will support the CDMA standard. Japan’s biggest mobile carrier NTT Docomo, long rumored to be interested in distributing the handset as well, will apparently be left out.

Neither Apple nor KDDI have confirmed the Nikkei Business report so far.



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24Aug

Microsoft, Fujitsu and KDDI launches the world first Windows Phone 7.5 in Japan

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Under a cloudy sky at 8h40 this morning in front of Akihabara’s huge Yodobashi Camera store, Fujitsu, KDDI and Windows celebrated the world first Windows Phone 7.5 launch. And voila, it is done!
Despite this very official event, we have to admit that people where not really rushing to get one of this new Windows Phone, actually, most people at the event where 80% of the people were Journalists and the rest came from Microsoft, KDDI, Fujitsu and Yodobashi Camera.
Does this mean that Windows …
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