messa.tv

messa.tv

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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October 15, 2010 12 mins
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.
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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
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5 Interviews from Techcrunch Camp Japan
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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, depending on where you are). What do you think of the video and sound quality, compared to previous episodes? And also we have a new video e...
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May 27, 2010 16 mins
A brief introduction to Japan's #1 online shopping mall, Rakuten
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Interview with Patrick McKenzie
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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 a digital tv tuner but it also let's the PS3 record shows. With this add-on, added to the Blu-ray, Internet, YouTube abilities, the ...
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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 last year (with special mention of Ken's new big screen TV). Continuing with the Top 5 style, we did predictions for 2010 for the Japan...
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This episode covers topics such as messa.tv JP, crunchpad, kindle in Japan, Chris and WordBench
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In this episode, we started with a brief report on WordCamp Kyoto 2009 and discussed our favourite parts.
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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, for web designers and developers. We went to the last one held in Osaka and which was about HTML5. We were quite surprised that so many fel...
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August 19, 2009 16 mins
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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 about getting the iPhone so we summed up in our first Top 5 lists. Top5 reasons to get an iPhone and top 5 reasons not to get an iPh...
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July 28, 2009 13 mins
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 switching over to the iPhone. We talked about the recent OS3.0 announcement (we forgot all about the possible tethering feature) and some of our f...
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July 22, 2009 5 mins
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 cheapest seller.
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July 10, 2009 13 mins
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 with the 2x playback and the improved scrubber and 30 sec rewind. (Also no tethering available in Japan)Hiro mentioned that he got a ...
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July 6, 2009 12 mins
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 video podcast (a show you can subscribe to)Next we talked about the Kindle DX and the must-have feature of native pdf support. I also e...
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