Japan Adopts MediaFlo for Mobile DTV

From TVB:Television Broadcast
SAN DIEGO, CALIF: MediaFlo has been recognized as one of two official technologies companies can use for mobile DTV in the country. The Japanese Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications approved the standard for deployment of mobile DTV when necessary spectrum becomes available in 2011 when the country transitions entirely to digital broadcasting. [...]

Mobjet: The Twitter Killer?

Interesting article from AdWeek
MobJet, a So-Called ‘Twitter Killer,’ Expands
Service grows base in Asia and prepares to compete on world stage
Oct 27, 2009
- Rayana Pandey
Touted as a potential “Twitter Killer,” new social media service MobJet has launched in Singapore after its debut in Japan earlier this year.
The microblogging tool allows users to stay connected and communicate [...]

NTT DoCoMo: The Future of Mobile Multimedia

Thanks to my friend Sonja Kosman for sharing this interesting article from TechCrunch
NTT Docomo Buys 35 Percent Of PacketVideo For $45.5 Million
by Erick Schonfeld on July 5, 2009
Mobile video is taking off in Japan, where mobile operator NTT DoCoMo just invested $45.5 million in PacketVideo, which s a long-time supplier of mobile video software.