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Apple Widens iWatch Trademark Scope Around the World
Those hints at the existence of an Apple watch product continue to gain credibility. Despite its super-secret approach, nothing can hide the legal footprints left behind in trying to protect the brand. Time Is Ticking for Apple While not as exciting as a blurred pic of some plastic bit of a possible iPhone 6, the latest
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HP Launches Converged Cloud Solutions for APAC, Japan
Customers from the Asia Pacific and Japan region are found to prefer simple cloud solutions, and Hewlett-Packard wants to encourage businesses to adopt cloud deployments by offering pre-bundled kits to make things simpler to launch and manage.
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Yahoo! Japan Acquires Stake in Cloud Storage Firm Basho
The big news with Yahoo! is obviously its latest talent acquisition, particularly in appointing erstwhile Google VP Marissa Mayer to its CEO post. But in the Asia Pacific, Yahoo! Japan is making a big move for the cloud computing market, with its acquisition of cloud-storage firm Basho. Yahoo! Japan
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LinkedIn Expands to Japan, Opens Tokyo Office for Support
LinkedIn, the social network for professionals, has its sights set on conquering new markets, and has opened an office in Tokyo to support its growing presence in Japan. LinkedIn has recently launched support for Japanese, which opened up its market to more professionals in Japan.
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Mobile Internet to Overtake Wired Access by 2015
Some call it the post-PC era, like former Apple CEO Steve Jobs would. Some claim that the popularity of tablets and smartphones is just a fad, as former Asus Chairman Stan Shih once said. But make no mistake about it: Mobile Internet is on the rise.
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Fujitsu to Release First "Mango" Windows Phone, Ahead of Microsoft's Fall Launch
Microsoft (news, site) has had a successful run with its Windows Mobile platform, particularly in the corporate setting, but then the iPhone and Android rose in popularity and Microsoft found the need to refresh its mobile strategy. Microsoft is banking on the new Windows Phone 7 platform
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Twitter Partners With Yahoo! Japan for Real-Time Search; Preemptive Strike Against Asian Microblogs?
Twitter (news, site ) is aggressively expanding into the Japanese market, in particular partnering with mobile networks and portals in the country. Twitter's latest partnership involves adding live feeds in Yahoo! Japan search results.
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Fujitsu Global Cloud Platform Service 'Windows Azure Appliance' Available This August
Fujitsu (news, site ) and Microsoft have announced the first production release of the Windows Azure Platform appliance. Fujitsu's Global Cloud Platform (FGCP/A5) Service, running at Fujitsu's Japan datacenter, is currently in test deployment and is expected to launch by August 2011.
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Symbian Still Leading Smartphone Market in APAC, but Android Expected to Overtake in 2011
In the US markets, Android has fast overtaken other smartphone operating systems in terms of market share. Symbian still leads the game in the Asia Pacific region (excluding Japan), but analysts expect the platform to cede the top spot to Android within the year. Android Rising According to Nielsen (
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Japan Social Network Mixi Supports Real-World Tagging via NFC
Facebook is not particularly popular in Japan. But this highly connected nation is no stranger to social networking. In fact, Mixi (news, site ), one of the more popular networks, is adding a system for easy tagging of real-world items using Near Field Communication.
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BroadVision Launches Clearvale Express, Partners With Japanese Telecom for White-Label Social Networking
Businesses have embraced the use of social networking tools in order to improve productivity, increase mindshare and engage its target clientele. However, most enterprise social networking tools are either too closed, too public, or too expensive.
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Facebook Faces Privacy Challenges in Japan
Facebook (news, site ) might be the Internet's billion-dollar baby, but the social networking giant is not exactly a Goliath in the land of the rising sun.
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eZ Systems Extends Its Presence to Japan
eZ Systems, an Open Source Web CMS vendor, joined forces with its Gold Partner Mitsue-Links Co., Ltd. to open an eZ Systems office in Tokyo, Japan, this November. Although eZ is not new to the Japanese market, the new initiative will further promote eZ Systems’ Open Source Content Management System (CMS) eZ Publish in Japan. According to eZ CEO Aleksander Farstad, the company has been active in the Japanese market for the last two years, building a partner network and working with “significant” customers. With an accelerated growth in the market, the next step
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SDL Tridion Bolsters APAC Ops
SDL Tridion, a Dutch provider of Web Content Management software solutions is strengthening its market presence in the Asia Pacific with a new office in Tokyo and a new VP of Sales Asia Pacific and Middle East to help spearhead regional growth.
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