Ingrid Lunden
May 17, 2011 10:03 AM
Are you in the camp that thinks most Android handsets are design snorefests that essentially look and act the same? Well, a device just launched in Japan with the operator KDDI shows just how drastically different the Google (NSDQ: GOOG) OS can be.
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David Kaplan
Jan 25, 2010 8:26 AM
Cable operator Liberty Global is selling off its 37.8 stake in Japanese broadband provider Jupiter Telecommunications to wireless operator KDDI Corporation for $4 billion. The deal is part of a plan by Liberty Global, which is controlled by John Malone, to refocus its concentration on Europe. Exiting the Japanese market…
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Tricia Duryee
Sep 26, 2008 1:21 PM
Motorola (NYSE: MOT) has announced a new line of set-tops that allow users to transfer content to and from mobile phones without the need for a PC. Japanese operator KDDI will be the first to use the new boxes for a service called au Box. The box has a host…
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James Quintana Pearce
Apr 17, 2008 11:46 AM
Japan’s KDDI will launch visual search on its Spring 2008 au line of camera phones, and will make the application available for download to current customers with an au camera phone. Visual search allows people to take pictures of things with their camera phone and get content based on the…
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Dianne See Morrison
Mar 31, 2008 7:02 AM
Gemstar-TV Guide International has signed a deal with Japanese mobile network KDDI to provide the mobile version of the company’s digital TV guide G-Guide Mobile for OneSeg, a terrestrial digital mobile TV service unique to Japan. The terms of the deal were not disclosed. 1-Seg has been a hit in…
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