June
3


Walt Disney Japan will release a new mobile handset DM002SH for its Disney Mobile service in collaboration with Japanese mobile carrier Softbank. The slim, stylish and highly functional mobile handset DM002SH is designed based on the image of Cinderella. The Cinderella mobile features Sharp’s 2.6-inch AQUOS display, 1-seg digital TV broadcasting, Camera, music player as well as FeliCa e-money service. With a charging time of 140 minutes, you get 220 minutes of continuous talk time, 300 hours of standby time.


The Walt Disney mobile handset DM002SH is available in Pink diamond, clear crystal and brown Topaz color variants. The Cinderella mobile handset DM002SH measures 49 × 101.5 × 16.3 mm and weigh approximately 111 g.

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September
3


Buffalo Corporation Japan has joined hands with toy maker Bandai Japan to help kids from the danger of internet and adult movies, images etc stored in a PC. To overcome this hazard Buffalo and Bandai has come out with a simple unique product-USB kid’s key. When you connect the kid’ key to the USB port of a PC, the PC is automatically turned to “kids’ mode”. Now the child is able to browse only safe sites like Yahoo for kids and also is blocked from adult movies, images, your important documents etc which may be already stored in the PC.

Whenever kid mode is turned on a different kid movie starts with a different message at the end. Different versions USB kids are available. When Mickey Mouse version key is used the desktop has Mickey Mouse wall paper. There are five icons from which the kid can enjoy working with the PC. You also have Toy box mode for young kids who can enjoy simple flash games.

At present Mickey Mouse and Winnie the Pooh version is available. The product will be available from 14th September and price will be announced during launch of the product. Still we need to teach our children that the Internet is like a very large city. There are lots of good things, some bad things, and a few very bad people.

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February
17


Epson Direct (Japan) has come with a nice collection of laptops with favorite Disney characters-Tinkerbell, Winnie the Pooh and Mickey Mouse. The Disney characters decorate outside of the new Epson Endeavor laptops with matching wall paper and screen saver. The new model is basically the same Endeavor NT2850 White Edition .The note book PC offers a choice of XGA (1024 x 768 pixel) or SXGA+ (1400 x 1050 pixel) resolution display on a 15″ LCD monitor. Running off a SiS M661MX chipset with Celeron M 370J (1.5GHz) processor, 256MB memory, 40GB HDD, CD-RW/DVD-ROM and OS Windows XP Home Edition (SP2) .The note book Pc comes with a 19 mm full-size keyboard, USB 2.0×4, Type2 PC card slot ×1,SD card /MMC/ memory stick (PRO) slot ×1, IEEE 1394, Ethernet card. The lithium ion battery lasts approximately for 1.5 hours.

With dimensions 332×287×35.6mm (width x depth x height), approximate weight 3kg the note book is available (only in Japan) for approximately 120,750 Yen.

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