The Tokyo-based tech venture company Modiphi[J] started a twitter-like micro blog service for enterprise use[J] today. The company introduced the same series for consumer use[J] last month, which allows you to post a short message and share it with your friends, as well as RSS feeds aggregation and social bookmarking feature. The service is also… Continue reading The RSS-based Service Developer Adds A Twitter-like Business Solution To Line-up
Month: April 2009
Practical Face-tracking for Japanese Gal-Game
If you are male, and when you saw see a girl with ultra-mini skirt on TV, have you ever tried to peek from underneath? I had, in my teenage. 🙂 The rather new technology using webcam is now realizing the boys’ dream on a PC game, Tech48 by Teatime. They combined face-tracking technology, which detects… Continue reading Practical Face-tracking for Japanese Gal-Game
Japanese Mobile Design Showcase
Mobile Design Archive is a new blog where over 400 Japanese cellphone websites screenshot are collected. Because of historical and security reasons, many mobile websites are not accessible from PCs in Japan, some are blocked by browser IP address, others are referring cellphone unique id. So taking screenshots of mobile sites are not easy as… Continue reading Japanese Mobile Design Showcase
S. Korea’s YouTube Disabled Video Uploading Due To The New Act For Preventing Cybercrimes
In South Korea, where many crimes and suicide cases have been caused by slanderous messages posted on social websites, the country’s telecommunication authority has deployed an act which obligates the Internet user to publish his/her real name when uploading a video or leaving a comment on large social networking sites. The authority expanded its scope of application on April… Continue reading S. Korea’s YouTube Disabled Video Uploading Due To The New Act For Preventing Cybercrimes
Google Search Gibberishes to Some Users in Japan
Google Japan announced their apology on their search results for some users were showed garbled texts from 9th evening to 11:30 p.m. for around 6-7 hours on their official blog [J]. The bug affected some Japanese users and some other language users, as they wrote. It also said that it was caused by engineering human… Continue reading Google Search Gibberishes to Some Users in Japan
Your Cellphone Helps Inducing A Coincidental Meet To Dating
The Tokyo-based mobile app start-up YouMind[J] launched last Friday the free mobile service called Hitomebo[J], which allows you to record where and when you have seen cute girls or handsome boys and fallen in love, just only with a GPS-compatible mobile phone. One of the the company’s directors experienced to see a cute girl in… Continue reading Your Cellphone Helps Inducing A Coincidental Meet To Dating
Yahoo! Japan Launches TV Version Site
“Terebi-ban (TV version) Yahoo! Japan” is a new variation of Yahoo! Japan for home TV browsers. Left side-bar menu has only 7 items, news, weather, sports, astrology, TV programme, cooking recipe and Chiebukuro (Yahoo! Answers Japanese version). The content is only 8 news headlines, 1 news with photo and 2 hot keywords. It is so… Continue reading Yahoo! Japan Launches TV Version Site
Two Broadband Video Streaming Sites To Be Merged To Survive
Yahoo Japan[J] announced Tuesday it would buy 51% stake in Gyao[J] which is the free broadband video streaming service and has been wholly owned by Japan’s largest cable music broadcaster USEN. Yahoo Japan will buy Gyao’s 4,998 shares for USD5.3M, and merge Gyao and Yahoo Douga (Yahoo Japan’s free video streaming service) together this… Continue reading Two Broadband Video Streaming Sites To Be Merged To Survive
NTT DoCoMo Buys 51% Stake in Japan’s 4th Largest Informercial Company
Japan’s largest cellphone career, NTT DoCoMo announced it has agreed to buy 51% stake for approx. USD310M in the country’s 4th largest TV infomercial company based in Nagoya, Oak Lawn Marketing(OLM). OLM was co-founded by a Chicagoese and university graduate who visited Nagoya in 1989. The company is best known for selling a German stain remover… Continue reading NTT DoCoMo Buys 51% Stake in Japan’s 4th Largest Informercial Company
Ichitaro Inventor, Just Systems To Be Subsidiary of The Osaka-Based Sensor Company
The Japanese word processing software pioneer, Just Systems announced today it would increase the capital by allocating new shares to the Osaka-based sensor manufacturer Keyence Corporation. Keyence plans to buy 43.96% stake in Just Systems, and it worths USD45M. After a full chase with the other word processing softwares like Microsoft Word, Just Systems’ money-making… Continue reading Ichitaro Inventor, Just Systems To Be Subsidiary of The Osaka-Based Sensor Company