Fujitsu IS12T Windows phone mango launched in Japan today (fast service)

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Last month, Fujitsu in Japan unveiled IS12T, declared the first cellphone running on Windows phone 7.5 aka mango. And the country's second largest mobile carrier (and exclusive supplier of phone) KDDI au, not losing a lot of time: IS12T became available today, and here (this is Fujitsu, official press release in English today).

As we reported earlier, mango tubes, comes with a 3.7 inch LCD 800 × 480 resolution, 13.2 MP CMOS camera, the body is water and shock proof 32 GB internal memory, support the microUSB port, IEEE 802.11 b/g/n Wi-Fi (do not bind), DLNA, GSM/CDMA, etc.

There are nine languages for user interface, and IS12T is available in three colors "Neon" (citrus fruits, black, purple).

I went to the store only a mobile phone in my area today, having a look at the phone, but unfortunately, I got a few pictures (see above) and play around with it for a few minutes before I had to leave (not video photo no).

My first impression was that the phone itself felt light and thin, but very cheap and plasticky (I couldn't give Xbox Live, Internet Explorer and other apps spin because Wi-Fi and 3 G have been turned off – within a few minutes, I played with it, the UI felt great).

Price-Wise IS12T is located at the upper end of the spectrum for mobile phones in Japan: storage (and all other retailers, for that matter) implements the phone up to $955 (but with steep discounts in certain circumstances). So if Fujitsu really starts selling mobile phone outside Japan (they have international plans), don't expect it will be a budget model.

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Today it is a cheap Nintendo 3DS day

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Just a reminder: today, cheap Nintendo 3DS day and unfortunately, this is the end of availability for Nintendo's unusual "Ambassador" program. The device is now available for $ 169-down from its launch price of $ 249-and they will launch the 3DS in "flame" aka "Mario" Red in September of this year.

Why this is news? Well as in the case of many recent price reduction, Nintendo is exceeded. Despite the fact that, in theory, 3 DS technology wildly surpassed the previous handheld consoles, the fact remains that these same consoles were just fine for the vast majority of DS games. 3D-and still is – the trick, and although I found fascinating console at launch, I suspect, balking at paying parents another Nintendo console has two and a half.

$ 169 a device that significantly cheaper and far more accessible. However, I worry that the fall will create a negative perception in the market. Console makers have traditionally been very aggressive and faithful in their prices. Console prices to drop sales are far beyond the sales plateau that occurs during startup, the console. Deficit, grey market after sales and General Chatter, all combine to create a perfect storm of income and only when the storm dies down, we see no significant price reductions.

In the end I'm sure Nintendo will do just fine on the 3DS. They are old, more nostalgic market and they understand that the children are happy with the new title Pokemon every few years. However, for them to reduce prices so early is a negative sign in almost all respects, except for one – lower prices means that more people will be willing to try Nintendo's vision for the future of handheld gaming.

Nintendo technology company is widely known for its line of gaming consoles, actually was founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi. It began as a card game company and evolution ...

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Today it is a cheap Nintendo 3DS day

Biggs is the editor of TechCrunch gadgets. Biggs wrote for the New York Times, InSync, United States at the weekend, popular mechanics, popular science, money, and a number of other outlets for technology and watches. He is the former editor-in-Chief of Gizmodo.com and lived in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. You can Tweet it here and G + it here. ? Read More

Just a reminder: today, cheap Nintendo 3DS day and unfortunately, this is the end of availability for Nintendo's unusual "Ambassador" program. The device is now available for $ 169-down from its launch price of $ 249-and they will launch the 3DS in "flame" aka "Mario" Red in September of this year.

Why this is news? Well as in the case of many recent price reduction, Nintendo is exceeded. Despite the fact that, in theory, 3 DS technology wildly surpassed the previous handheld consoles, the fact remains that these same consoles were just fine for the vast majority of DS games. 3D-and still is – the trick, and although I found fascinating console at launch, I suspect, balking at paying parents another Nintendo console has two and a half.

$ 169 a device that significantly cheaper and far more accessible. However, I worry that the fall will create a negative perception in the market. Console makers have traditionally been very aggressive and faithful in their prices. Console prices to drop sales are far beyond the sales plateau that occurs during startup, the console. Deficit, grey market after sales and General Chatter, all combine to create a perfect storm of income and only when the storm dies down, we see no significant price reductions.

In the end I'm sure Nintendo will do just fine on the 3DS. They are old, more nostalgic market and they understand that the children are happy with the new title Pokemon every few years. However, for them to reduce prices so early is a negative sign in almost all respects, except for one – lower prices means that more people will be willing to try Nintendo's vision for the future of handheld gaming.

Nintendo technology company is widely known for its line of gaming consoles, actually was founded in 1889 by Fusajiro Yamauchi. It began as a card game company and evolution ...

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Twitter starts testing t. co shortened links today

Today, Twitter will begin testing its link wrapping function that will automatically reduce the 20 characters long or more all URLs in t. co shell links. This test will affect a certain percentage of tweets publicly posted via the service, or sent via direct message.

Tests are "Canaries in the mine," says Twitter-means trying to find any issues with the new system of URL shortening before the Monday, August 15 launch.

In particular, Twitter hopes to determine if there are any problems with the user that will arise from the system, after working in the scale.

This means that you can start to see references shortened to start with "t co", appearing on Twitter during the week. And you can see the Insert link in the tweet automatically shortened for you to use the new URL wrapping function if the connection corresponds to the desired length.

Twitter is preparing to launch the system starting in June 2010. He said that the system will help the company understand how users interact with tens of millions of links shared on Twitter on a daily basis. It will also help protect users from malicious links and fraud, as the links will be reviewed before posting.

Note that this differs from the automatic connection, reducing feature which was introduced in June. It's just a truncated links for you ". It actually would wrap links, using the prefix "t co".

More information on how this change affects developers is available here and here.

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The Web is 20 years old today

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It was twenty years ago today/Tim Berners-Lee has taught the world to play/while 20 years ago he'd sworn/have not been so much porn. That's right – world's first Web site page prototype, written by Sir Tim Berners-Lee way back on 6 August 1991 the then emerging hypertext markup language, celebrates 20th birthday today. And, on this important anniversary, we ask that the Internet wrought?

In the past two decades, we have received in e-commerce and spam we tore down the music, news and publishing industries, and we already have CATS LOLed more than we can count. We've seen empires rise and fall, collapse the distinction between public and private sectors and the end of an enforceable copyright. We have seen new means of communication to push unwanted regimes at home and abroad, and we have heard endless wail million voices calling out immediately, most of them in the comments on this site.

We have also seen a lot of above porn.

Original (original?) page is here and it's a fascinating look at the seed crystal, which is a catalyst for change in the world, we know that in the days of heady travel agents. As porn.

Happy birthday to the Internet. Here are 20 years of happy, healthy.

Update-you guys win. Mea Culpa.

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