If you ever need proof that mobile gaming is huge in Asia, and particularly Japan, take a look at the example of the Gundam Masters game. The Sci-Fi game, available on Japanese mobile gaming networkGREE, has just picked up more that 1 million registered users since launch on 1 September – that’s an incredible 1,262 new player sign-ups per hour! If you thought that was impressive, the number of gamers playing Gundam Royal, on GREE-competitorMobage, reached six figures in just six days,as Serkan Toto explains on his blog....

Mobile phones can give a lot away about us – whether we want them to or not. A Japanese firm has faced criticism after its ‘boyfriend tracker’ app Kare Log allowed people suspicious of their partners to track their movements and the calls they made – completely undetected. AsThe Telegraphreports, the app was explicitly targeted at women who wanted to know where there husband was. A basic monthly charge provided the end-user with the location of the phone and the amount of energy left in the its battery....

For the first time ever, NTT Docomo Inc, Japan’s largest mobile network operator, will be selling unlocked handsets beginning April 2011. NTT Docomo is the first carrier to have specifically responded to the Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry’s request at the end ofJune last yearfor mobile phone companies to make their handsets SIM-free. There has been no word as to whether or not rival network operator Softbank will be unlocking its phones too....

The Fujitsu IS12T, the world’s first Windows Phone 7 Mango handset, and Japan’s first WP7 handset at all, was priced today. Our reaction: “Therentprice is (probably) too damn high!” The IS12T is no slouch of a phone: It’s near waterproof, has a 13 megapixel camera, and runs Mango on its 32 gigabytes of storage. In other words, it’s probably the most capable Windows Phone 7 handset (about to be) in the market....

TLDR:The 2022 Javascript Developer Bootcamp Certification Bundle features over 120 hours of intensive JavaScript training to turn any learner into an expert fast. Johnny-come-latelys to the coding scene can gush about their Pythons or their Ruby on Rails all they want. But when it’s all said and done, JavaScript still rules the programming roost. The venerable language has been the core of the web and web development for 25 years, with no real signs that its dominance will come to a close anytime soon....