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The Rise Of The Smartphone – Camera Manufacturers Fight On
As we are all aware more images globally are being taken with mobile phones than cameras and this has been going on for some time. Great news for Apple – US and Samsung – South Korea, of course but it’s a major headache to Canon and Nikon as their sales decline and affect the Japanese economy. "Smartphones are killing cameras across the globe. There is nowhere to hide, no magic country where the market is stable," said Christopher Chute, research vice president at IDC, a global market intelligence firm. "That’s been a huge problem for Japan." Between 2013 and 2014 alone, point-and-shoot sales fell 30 percent, according to Ben Arnold,…
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SugoiSoft Brings Japanese English Dictionary Jisho to the Mac App Store
SugoiSoft made its debut on the Mac App Store with the release its flagship Japanese English dictionary, Jisho 4.1. This is the first Japanese English dictionary available on the Mac App Store that is not designed for native speakers of Japanese. Jisho Jisho supports searching in multiple languages including: Japanese, English, German, Russian, and French. It also has the unique ability to convert the Japanese phonetic script hiragana, and katakana to roman letters making it easier for beginners to pronounce and read Japanese. Lists of words can also be made within the application so users can track forgotten words or any other vocabulary they choose. Features: * Dictionary includes Japanese,…
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Apple Ships Verizon CDMA iPhone 4 To Japan
AkiharbaraNews has an interesting story this morning, reporting that Apple has started shipping the CDMA iPhone 4, that was originally designed for Verizon, to Japan and other Asian countries. KDDI’s AU will soon be the second japanese company carrying the iPhone4, along with Softbank. KDDI