Lost In Japan

Today is MNP-day in Japan. MNP stands for Mobile Number Portability (Japanese Wikipedia, English Wikipedia) and basically means that you can switch mobile phone provider without changing your phone number. Before starting to work in the telecom industry, I would have thought that it did not take any great technical effort to do so, but [...]

Japanese cell phone operator au (KDDI) presented their “Spring Lineup” of new phones yesterday, and there are a few quite interesting models! The link goes to the au page presenting the seven new models – it’s in Japanese, but there’s some amazing Flash work done, and you can at least check out the pictures.
The phones [...]

So CNET announced their Blog100-list and a lot of good blogs and pesudo-blogs ended up being among the coveted 100.
And… even though CNET themselves state that it’s hard to define what a blog is;
Of course, such a list is bound to generate vigorous agreement and vehement dissent. It’s impossible to even get universal agreement [...]

OK, moving along. This last part I will dedicate to some of the smaller, lesser known products which I found kind of exciting.
First off is the Mini 2004 Stereo Integrated Amplifier (2 x 12 W Ultralinear Class AB) from Hong Kong maker Audio Space which is one of the largest Chinese makers of high-end vacuum [...]

Moving on with the report from the A&V Festa 2005 in Yokohama, Japan. (First part of the review is in the previous post.)
The most exquisite sound I’ve heard in a long time was encountered in the demo room of German high-end manufacturer mbl. They had an awesome setup of dual monoblocks (mbl 9011), a preamp [...]