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Japan’s Smartphones Don’t Go Global…Yet

speel — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:59:55 +0000

Japanese smartphones are much as popular as American and European smartphones are. But only in Japan however!

What makes this even a bigger shock is the fact that they were the first ones to create the smartphones we now know!These phones are a whole type of species, and are way more advance than the main smartphones. However, they seem to be limited to Japan only.

In fact, the Japanese market for mobile phones is twice as large as USA’s and many of them use their phones to access the web.

Thus far, the only main brand of Japanese phones that are currenly sold around the globe. Sony Ericsson which is made of the Japanese based Sony and Sweden’s telecommuncations firm Ericsson. They seem to be the only one who has gone global in sales of their phones.

NEC,Panasonic,Toshiba,Sharp and Fujitsu are planning to start marketing overseas soon, in hopes to grown in the business. This will be NEC’s second attempt for selling over seas.

Twitter From Your Skype Account

Christine Ikeda — Fri, 27 Mar 2009 18:12:50 +0000

In this day and age of communications, it’s easy to end up running so many different messaging clients on your computer that you can barely keep track of which window does what. Luckily, there are often ways of consolidating the functionality of these standalone clients into much less clutter-prone solutions.

This mashup is not a replacement for your Twitter client by any means, but you if use Skype as a messenger a lot, it may be a convenient way to quickly update or receive Twitter messages, without having to fish through your pile of open windows. So here goes:

Add twitter4skype as a contact in your Skype account
Send this chat message to twitter4skype:
/account (shift+return)
yourTwitterName (shift+return)
yourTwitterPassowrd (shift+return)
Then your should receive a reply saying that your registration is complete

That’s it! The next time you send a tweet from Skype, it should be forwarded to your Twitter account, and you should receive messages.
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