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messa.tv

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A show featuring news, views and tips from Osaka, Japan. Presented by Hiroyuki Shinohara and Ian Cheung. Produced by messaliberty, the company that brings you hulor.com, helping you find interesting stuff online without the work of searching.

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Episodes

  1. episode 017 - iOS vs Android in Japan

    In episode 17, we talk about the battle between iOS and Android in Japan. ; We cover things like market share, the new product announcements from Sharp and predictions for the future.

  2. episode 016 - Japanese Mobile Phone Networks

    We cover the 3 biggest mobile phone network operators in Japan, Docomo, AU, and Softbank. Including background info, history, strategies and future prospects. In the second part we go in-depth with Softbank and its CEO Son-san

  3. messa.tv SP#003 - Techcrunch Camp Japan Interviews

    5 Interviews from Techcrunch Camp Japan

  4. episode 015 - Rakuten, smart.fm, iPad, WordCamp Yokohama

    First news, was of Rakuten (the online shopping mall we covered in Episode 014) switching to using English in their meetings as well as their purchase of buy.com for US $250 million. Next we talked about our new video camera, the DSLR Canon EOS Kiss x4 (also known as the Rebel T2i or EOS 550D,...

  5. Episode 14 - Introduction to Rakuten

    A brief introduction to Japan's #1 online shopping mall, Rakuten

  6. episode 13 - google vs china, sony ps3 digital tv tuner, transferjet, on-demand video streaming in Japan, chiaki kuriyama, and Kindle DX va iPad

    We started the show with the Google vs China sagat, Hiro quizzed me on the reactions on Hong Kong citizens (I was in Hong Kong when the controversy started.) And he was surprised at the lack of surprise. Next up was some digital entertainment news, and the latest add-on for the PS3. The torune is…

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  7. episode 012 - review of 2009, predictions for 2010, our New Year resolutions and our first competition

    We shared our New Year resolutions for messa.tv and messaliberty. hulor, blog posts and WordPress development all got a mention. 2009 was a busy year in the tech world in Japan and we reviewed it, Top 5 fashion. See if you agree with what we thought were the biggest or most important events of…

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  8. episode 11 - messa.tv JP, crunchpad, kindle in Japan, Chris and WordBench

    This episode covers topics such as messa.tv JP, crunchpad, kindle in Japan, Chris and WordBench

  9. episode 010 - WordCamp Kyoto 2009, mi-fi killer, WiMax, and Nico Nico Douga's success

    In this episode, we started with a brief report on WordCamp Kyoto 2009 and discussed our favourite parts.

  10. Episode 9 - we've moved, css nite, updates, Japan's SNS, eye-fi, wordcamp kyoto

    From a different location (we just moved from one side of the office to the other) we started the show. Hiro shows everyone the new layout but I point out that not many viewers had seen the old layout.Our first topic was CSS Nite, which are presentation events held in different cities in Japan…

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  11. episode 3 - Free iPhones in Japan, Fastladder tips (the RSS reader), our twitter feeds

    We started the show with the latest news about the iPhone in Japan. That being that Softbank are giving away the 8GB iPhone with a 2 year contract. Related to this was an article by Wired that used old quotes from Hayashi-san. Hiro says that it is a forged article but I am not so sure.I'm tempted...

  12. episode 4 of messa.tv

    We began the show with a quick explanation of what happened with the special episode of messa.tv covering the DenDen Town Street Festa and we promised to go back some time in the near future.Hiro mentioned that I finally succumbed to giving Apple and Softbank some of my hard earnt Yen by…

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  13. iPhone battery review

    I bought a fairly cheap (~¥2000) iPhone battery on Yahoo Auctions. This is a quick review of the battery, showing the size, features and a simple test of the capacity.If you like it, you can find it by searching Yahoo Auctions for "iphone 1900mah". The seller was suen2003jp who is probably the...

  14. episode 7

    As you might have guessed we started the show with the news of the release of iPhone OS 3.0 bringing Cut, Copy and Paste and MMS to the iPhone. Unfortunately Apple still hasn't sorted out the whole iPhone, iTunes, App Store mess on the phone. The playback controls of podcasts has improved though...

  15. episode 6 of messa.tv

    The first piece of news is was the announcement of the redesign and relaunch of messa.tv We talked about the new features, including bigger viewing size, ratings and others. Don’t forget to rate this episode or send us bug reports if you spot any. We also talked about plans to make messa.tv a…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

A show featuring news, views and tips from Osaka, Japan. Presented by Hiroyuki Shinohara and Ian Cheung. Produced by messaliberty, the company that brings you hulor.com, helping you find interesting stuff online without the work of searching.

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A show featuring news, views and tips from Osaka, Japan. Presented by Hiroyuki Shinohara and Ian Cheung. Produced by messaliberty, the company that brings you hulor.com, helping you find interesting stuff online without the work of searching.

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