Hay fever. It's the wrong time of year for it, hay fever usually hits in spring, but given that the next issue of Japan Inc. magazine carries details of a new invention to help control it, we thought we'd give some advance notice on the subject here at Terrie's Take.

Yoshihisa Komori, an editor-at-large for the "Sankei Shimbun," a right-of-center daily, earlier this week published in the New York Times an op-ed piece entitled "Who's Afraid of Shinzo Abe"...

DoCoMo started selling the Blackberry 8707h in the Japanese market on September 26. The device supports the 3G-(W-CDMA), GSM- and GPRS-networks and is similar to the Blackberry 8707 sold outside Japan. DoCoMo initially targets foreign companies with this Blackberry - the key board is a QWERTY-type...

The Gist: It seems we spoke too soon last week when we told you about Logitec's USB One-Seg tuner. The one that gives you the capability to add One-Seg reception to virtually any PC running Windows 2000 or XP. That's because Buffalo has come along and one-upped Logitec.