Official Google Japan blog wrote that they had added a new interesting street view route in Tokyo bay, “the first street view on the water” by taking photos from their tricycle fixed on the tourist ship.

大きな地図で見る

How they shot the photos is on movie.

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A blog juggly.cn reported that they got a leaked image of Fujitsu’s new 2011 summer model cellphone for Docomo, which name is LOOX F-07c, which is a dual boot cellphone with Symbian/Windows 7.

It’s not “Windows Phone 7″, “Windows 7″. The reported specifications are:

• Windows 7/Symbian dual OS, switchable in a single action
• 125mm(H) x 61mm(W) x 19.8mm(D)
• 4 inch WSVGA(1024×600)
• Intel Atom processor
• 32GB SSD
• color: navy black
• option: cradle with USB/HDMI sockets

Symbian might mean that the regular Japanese feature phone OS. Many of Docomo’s feature phones are using customized Symbian OS for Japanese market.

juggly.cn says that there has been no official announcement yet so you should see it “as a rumor level”. Another anonymous comment on 2 channel [J] says that the battery will last 1.5-2.0 hours in Windows 7 mode.

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Early part of March news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

• CyberAgent To Start iPhone Social Game Platform GameWave For North America And Global
• Full-flat Office Chair Enables You To Stay Even For A Week At Office
• Recruit Pompare Catching Up Groupon Japan In February
• iAppli Advence Award – 8 Docomo Feature Phone Apps
• 77% Of Japanese Interested In Smartphone Are Thinking Androids – a bit dubious reserach though
• Food Photo To Calory Recording Service via Idea*idea
• Yahoo! Chiebukuro Releases API
• Sellaband Launches Japanese version
• [Reuter] Yahoo closes in on Yahoo Japan deal [En] and [Ja]
• Studylog – Sharing Your Self-Study Records
• Onkyo Releases Audio Player Which Supports radiko.jp, a radio IP simulcast service.
• Sharee China launches deals of the day service for Chinese visitors to enable to be paid with Union Pay card.
• Panasonic to suspend the development of their new game device targeting the North American market.
• Shogakkan introduces the calendar iPhone app with a photo collection of woman TV anchors/reporters.
• NTV introduces the iPhone app including 3,000 recipes introduced on their program “Kewpie 3-min cooking”.
• In mid-March, three student nurses to tour the worst hotels in Singapore, London and NYC. (produced by TripAdvisor Japan).
• Groupon launches its Chinese subsidiary as GaoPeng.com
• Japanese Brands Facebook Page Fans Ranking
• Twitter Japan Is Hiring Communications Manager
• Oracle Japan’s Company Dog Wendy Visits Fujitsu
• Netprice-backed Cloudy Study launches a self-learning management tool called Studylog.
• Sharp Exntends Its E-Book Reader Galapoagos Onto Their Million Of Android. It’s like Kindle for Android, but only for Sharp’s Android
• Amazon Finally Opens Tokyo Data Center For Amazon Web Services
• Japanese iPhone Game Urges Users To Set 5 Star On Review. This game has “under construction” part and clicking it takes you to the review page on iTune App Store
• Half Of Kayac’s Mobile App Nakamap Download Is From Kuwait
• Coca Cola Japan’s Facebook Campain Page Suspended via Togetter
• Shogakkan’s App DIME to host the first smartphone app award.
• Moe Taxi In Hamamatsu via Slashdot Japan
• Ekitan’s IPO Gets Almost Double Price On Its First Day
• Kyoto Univ Exam Cheater Arrested
• Drastic Web Design Featuring Wire Frame As Is By LDP’s Miyagi Branch via @gamme – It was all in single image at first. Now they are closing to regular web design.
• Nielsen Reports Zozotown’s TVCM And Yahoo! Japan Alliance Increases Traffic Remarkably
• Groupon Japan Reportedly To Post 50% Off Cake Coupon Without Shop’s Consent
• MMD Labo’s Smartphone Resarch For Female
• Groupon Japan Releases Groupon Promise – To Recover Their Fallen Reputations via release
• EA Launches Its First Mobile Social Game In Japan On Gree
• Coca Cola Japan’s Facebook Promotion Page Resumed. And book around their web promotion is published
• OKWave Says That They Would Have RemovedKyoto Univ Exam Cheater. They mean, different from Yahoo!
• Contactless iPhone battery charger.
• Human Shaped Cellphone Elfoid via Engadget Japanese
• Ameba Pigg’s Stop Supporting Flash 9 Makes Thousands Users Upset via ITMedia
• Internet Slangs -Part Ⅱ- [En]
• iPhone app promoting Suntory Beer. via @Dominic
• Kyoto Univ Cheater Typed His Questions By His Left Hand On Regular Cellphone
• 30min releases the iPhone app specializing in sharing ramen experience.
• Playback tweets by your followers. Pixiv Redrum Smiles releases Retime.me
• Programming Language Personified – Self-publishing Book
• Quora-like Q&A service called QAREAL. It has to be signed up with real names. Another Quora-like, Another one (not opened yet)
• Ecofon-Coca Cola trouble
• Weekly Diamond Begins To Release Its Feature Articles As iPhone Apps. The first one is on Akihabara, 450 yen
• Japanese Game For Visiting Foreigners – Under Development [En]
• Web Meme El Shadai To Be Comicalized
• JR Develops Train Sheet On Which You Cannot Open Legs Wide
• TrendMicro’s Unlimited Storage Service Stops To Accept New Users After 3 Month
• Yahoo! Japan Opens iPhone/iPad App Search
• Hatsune Miku Image With A Lots Of Hatsune Miku Illustrations
• SEO Service Ginzametrics Backed By YCombinator Moves And Hires In Tokyo [En] via Hacker News
• Tumblr Begins Japanese Beta
• Pompare Ad Lady Photos on Naver Matome
• Pompare Ad Parody Using The Same Lady From Photo Stock Service
• Asian EC Service Research By Aun Consulting
• Sony PlayStation3′s Campaign Site Is So Japanese. Intentionally exaggerating how Japanese web design is, I guess
• Social Network Users Research
• Hiroshima Atomic Bomb Dome Featured On Google Street View [En]. Google Japan blog [J]

If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.

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