Here is the daily roundup from Japanese consumer tech and tech business websites for November 14, 2014.

Send someone a gift easily with LINE’s new service
Japanese mobile service provider LINE Corporation opens a new feature for its EC service LINE MALL, the LINE GIFT. The new feature will enable users to send gifts to registered friends without the need to manually input an address using only a smartphone app.

Mouse introduces two new HD notebooks
Mouse Computer Japan has just released two new models for its high-end m-Book P notebook PC product line. These new laptops feature a 15.6-inch display, with the MB-P930 using a 4K IGZO screen, and the MB-P920 a standard full HD 1080p screen. The laptop models will be available at a base price of about $1,500.00 (MB-P930) and $1,200.00 (MB-P920).

Japan Cybercrime Control Center takes off
Japan establishes its own version of the NCFTA, the Japan Cybercrime Control Center (JC3), to combat the increasing security threat of criminal and illegal activities in Japan’s local webspace.

Hitachi doubles Li-ion energy density with new tech
Hitachi has developed a new technology that is claimed to be capable of doubling the current energy density of Lithium-ion batteries. The technology is primarily aimed at electric vehicles, which would significantly increase its maximum effective driving distance.

Iwatani sells cheaper hydrogen
Iwatani Corporation is now selling hydrogen for fuel cell vehicles at a new adjusted price, which is equivalent to only about $0.85 per cubic meter.

Toshiba to build clean energy system at Kawasaki City
Toshiba joins forces with officials at Kawasaki City, Kanagawa Prefecture to develop a sustainable renewable energy system using solar energy and hydrogen. The clean energy system will be used at the Kawasaki City harbor promotion hall, where it will be set as an emergency system for natural calamities.

Sharp gives away the gift of 4K this Christmas
Sharp opens an early Christmas promotional campaign for its Aquos 4K TV products named “Send a child the gift of your fantastic future”. Members signed-up in the campaign will receive an exclusive 4K video ‘letter’ from Santa Claus, and a random 300 participants will be given a special unique video based on their registered profiles.

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A recently made documentary about Apple’s own iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 Plus launches details the kinds of conditions that people endure to stay in iPhone launch lines in order to secure day one iPhone 6 and iPhone 6 pluses from the Apple store. This problem has only gotten worse as Apple’s products continue to gain more fans and increase in popularity. It used to be that people would wait in line all morning or all night in order to get an iPhone, but because of the sheer amount of people and Apple’s own desire to create  fanfare, they’ve aggravated this problem.

Sure, there are plenty of people that absolutely must have the phone on day one, and brag about it or whatever, but the reality of the situation is that there are now people who’s job it is to wait in line for the iPhone and then sell it to the person who actually ends up with the phone and who has financially supported the whole operation. Sure, there’s nothing wrong with waiting online and trying to sell it to the highest bidder on eBay, this is America and you can do whatever you like. But after watching this documentary, there’s no way that you can think that such behavior is actually helping Apple’s image or marketing. It comes off as tasteless and a commentary of how awful these product launches have gotten.

When I was in San Francisco around the time of the iPhone launch for the iPhone 6 and 6 Plus I heard that the situation was very similar to that of what was going on in New York, a lot of older Chinese people waiting in line who would clearly not be buying the phones for themselves. Cult of Mac confirms this in their own article about resellers crowding out the rest of the line.

Photo of SF Line – Credit: Jim Merithew/Cult of Mac

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