Japan’s largest social networking service Mixi is showing KDDI au(No. 2 cellphone carrier)’s new cellphone mail flat-rate plan commercial on its log-in page to 17 million users. Although Mixi is a membership service, as it is pre-login page, everyone can see it. KDDI au recently started its fixed rate internet mail plan “Gangan Mail”(gangan is… Continue reading Mixi Top Page Showing Really Strange Ad
Day: November 15, 2009
Marriage Fraud Case Forces Rakuten To Push Back Service Release
Recently in Tokyo, there was a marriage fraud case that a woman is suspected of having murdered her several boyfriends. According to several news media, due to the effect of the case, Japan’s e-commerce giant Rakuten had been planning to launch an online marriage hunting site, but they were forced to push back the release… Continue reading Marriage Fraud Case Forces Rakuten To Push Back Service Release
iPhone Breast Enhancer: Better Than Plastic Surgery To Be Sexy?
Following the company’s stupid iPhone/iPod touch app serial release (like this), Kayac, a funny web app developer based in Tokyo’s suburb, just made something new to make our hard days more cheerful. Tanimania, it is a breast enhancer that enables to make the breast of you or your girlfriend much sexier than ever – but… Continue reading iPhone Breast Enhancer: Better Than Plastic Surgery To Be Sexy?
Popular Singer Kohmi Hirose Held A Twitter Live Concert
Kohmi Hirose, a Japanese pop singer/song writer, who is also known by her joining Twitter this year, made a Twitter (unofficial) song, one of 31 suggested Japanese Twitter accounts, had the first “Twitter Live Concert” in Japan. (I just do not know if there were similar concerts in other countries yet) The short concert with… Continue reading Popular Singer Kohmi Hirose Held A Twitter Live Concert
iPhone 3G Is Still As Popular As 3GS in Japan
BCN’s cellphone sales ranking, which once was used to declare iPhone triumph in Japan, showed interesting status these weeks. Last week, iPhone 3G (8G) sales was ranked at the 3rd, whilst the latest 3GS (32G) ranked at the 4th. This week 3GS (32GB) takes back the highest position among iPhones ranked by 5th. 3G (8G)… Continue reading iPhone 3G Is Still As Popular As 3GS in Japan