New version of King Kanji

Details of the new features and a 30 day trial download can be found at the Gakusoft site.

NEC Opens Up Membership Based PDA Portal for Businesses and Developers

Not much of interest to users here, but good to see this type of support for the PDA industry from businesses and a good sign for the PDA industry's future in Japan. Site is only in Japanese: PDABiz

Are there any good J-E/E-J dictionary's for Pocket PCs ?

Originally posted as an answer to a aimilar question in the discussion group.

JWPce (freeware) can take a bit of getting used to and installing is not quite as simple as click-and-go but when you do get it installed and get used to it it provides good access to EDICT. It's actually a word processor but the kanji and word dictionary are the key features. There is a companion freeware flash card program called JFC contributing to what is an excellent package. All the info is here: http://www.physics.ucla.edu/~grosenth/jwpce.html

Do some obvious searches on Google and you will find some good flash card sets other people have created. (Same goes for King Kanji).

In addition most Japanese model PPCs come with E-J, J-E, kokugo and perhaps kanji dict. The Sanseido one on my old G-FORT and the Jisyo Supa on my Genio perform well but don't offer anything more than very basic lookup functions are certainly have no tools to help learn vocab.

Some of the better of the other tools out there (Most only have Japanese information):
- PDIC: http://member.nifty.ne.jp/TaN/ (Can be used to access Eijiro but I have yet to try it pending getting hold of a bigger memory card).
- ZPDVIEW: http://hp.vector.co.jp/authors/VA004474/wince/wince.html (Another good looking tool I really have to try)

There are also an increasingly good range of commercial dictionaries out there, including on the shelves of some of the larger computer stores. Searching for Ž«�‘ (jisyo) here http://www.wince.ne.jp/soft2002/ will get you a list of most of them. I'm not sure about the user interface but the content is the equivalent of the print dictionaries from the same companies. (Aside: I personally like EIJIRO (www.alc.co.jp for web access) for translations but it doesn't have the kanji readings so it may also be necessary to look these up using a separate tool/dictionary).

Finally, this Java dictionary - Babbletower - is still at early release stage but it has been getting very good comments from people who know what they are talking about: http://home.att.ne.jp/theta/xelalex/v