- Lunascape (browser)
Lunacape is a
web browser that is very popular in Japan. It was developed by Lunascape Corporation inTokyo, Japan [http://www.lunascape.tv/company/about.aspx] .History
Lunascape was founded in August 26th 2004 by Hidekazu Kondo who is also the
CEO and founder. Because of the nature ofJapanese start-ups is was largely financed byTokyo Mitsubishi bank [http://www.lunascape.tv/company/about.aspx] . In theUnited States it is based inSan José, California in June 2008 [http://translate.google.ca/translate?hl=en&sl=ja&u=http://v.japan.cnet.com/news/article/story/0,2000067548,20378447,00.htm&sa=X&oi=translate&resnum=1&ct=result&prev=/search%3Fq%3Dhttp://v.japan.cnet.com/news/article/story/0,2000067548,20378447,00.htm%26hl%3Den%26sa%3DG] . The decision was made because of the global scope of the internet with its 700 million users whileJapan has only 70 million users. According to the company's founder Konda: "Silicon Valley is the place to expand the global IT business to a very good environment. A lot of success around, so consult with the idea seriously. Spawn new business for the network. Lawyer for one It's wide network of contacts in Japan and feel the difference. If I only wanted to go, "Kondo said.Browser
The browser is based on the
Internet Explorer platform and also includes multi-tab browsing and a built inRSS aggregator [http://www.lunascape.tv/features/lunascape/4_7/features.aspx] .Other features that are unique to this browser is that is supports both
Gecko andTrident rendering engines and apodcast aggregator, mouse gesture recognition and alsopop-ups for news flashes based on RSS.Other Products
The flagship of the company is its browser, but it also provides web services such as
social networking [http://space.luna.tv/] and a web portal [http://luna.tv/] and likeOpera (browser) , the company also provides a mobile version of theweb browser [http://www.lunascape.tv/features/lunascape_mobile/1_0/Default.aspx]External links
* [http://www.lunascape.tv Lunascape USA] - English website
* [http://www.lunascape.jp Lunascape] - Official Japanese websiteReferences
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