Month: October 2009

Two Different Approaches To Digitize Printed Magazines

It is very interesting that there are two different ways leading to the almost same results.   I wonder which approach makes it successful in their business.   What do you think? Tokyo-based e-commerce related service provider Enigmo launched a new service last Wednesday, which is named Corseka[J] and allows users to browse and read their favorite… Continue reading Two Different Approaches To Digitize Printed Magazines

Top 50 Of Japan’s Most Rapidly Growing Tech Startups. GREE Is No. 1.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has compiled a list of the 50 fastest-growing tech firms in Japan [JP, PDF], and it’s quite interesting. The so-called Nippon Technology FAST50 was released yesterday by the company’s Tokyo subsidiary, and I took the liberty to fully translate the list. Deloitte says the ranking is based on sales growth over the… Continue reading Top 50 Of Japan’s Most Rapidly Growing Tech Startups. GREE Is No. 1.

Twitter Japan Teasing Special Mobile Site For Japanese Cellphone

Twitter Japan’s official twitter account tweeted to give an URL under their official twitter navigation site twinavi.jp. It looks like that this teaser page is for newly coming Japanese cellphone compliant mobile website for 3 major carriers, NTT Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank Mobile. Months ago Twitter Japan announced that they would develop a special… Continue reading Twitter Japan Teasing Special Mobile Site For Japanese Cellphone

7-Month-Old Infant Tweets On Custom Twitter App

A Japanese blogger @ueblog presented his 7-month-old daughter, who is enthralled by typing notebook keyboard, a specially programmed twitter client Rukotter in programming language Python with wxPython. Video is here, Her twitter account is @ruko_ueblog. The client is well considered for infants, runs on full screen when typing exceeds a certain number of letters, automatically… Continue reading 7-Month-Old Infant Tweets On Custom Twitter App

Taiwan’s Far EasTone Starts Distributing Japanese Manga For Cellphone Users

Tokyo-based digital content distributor Bitway[J] started distributing popular Japanese manga series today to handsets of Taiwanese cellphone operator Far EasTone Telecommunications[C].   The distributed series include Dragon Ball, Naruto, Death Note, One Piece, Boys Over Flowers, Dr. Slump and Happy Mania. Bitway provides an integrated viewer application for Taiwanese cellphone users, and it displays the content… Continue reading Taiwan’s Far EasTone Starts Distributing Japanese Manga For Cellphone Users

“Koe-tan”, A Free iPhone Voice Search App For Public Transit In Tokyo

Tokyo-based Internet ad agency Traffic Gate[J] and U.K.- and Silicon Valley-based speech recognition technology developer Novauris Technology jointly released an iPhone/iPod touch app allowing you to find the best route on Tokyo’s public transit using your voice, which is named “Koe-Tan” and available for free at AppStore.   If you are holding with bags and an… Continue reading “Koe-tan”, A Free iPhone Voice Search App For Public Transit In Tokyo

Mixi Adds New Friends-Making Feature For Shy Japanese

Mixi, Japan’s largest social network service, introduced a new feature around Mai-Miku(=My Mixi, my friends) management, called My List. Your new “My List” is completely private for you, no one can see who is on it. You may add other Mixi users by random browsing, or from recommended users list. Without letting them notice, you… Continue reading Mixi Adds New Friends-Making Feature For Shy Japanese

Japanese Mobile Biz Entrepreneurs To Visit Silicon Valley To Meet Potential Tech Start-ups

Inspired by Geeks On A Plane that was organized by Founder Fund co-founder Dave McClure and took 50 Silicon Valley tech geeks to Japan, Korea and Mainland China to meet up with Asian friends last June, a group of Tokyo-based mobile service entrepreneurs is now planning to visit San Francisco Bay Area at the end… Continue reading Japanese Mobile Biz Entrepreneurs To Visit Silicon Valley To Meet Potential Tech Start-ups

Cellphone To Check Your Golf Swing

Fujitsu announced that Hosei University and they developed a technology to sense your body’s movement during golf swing by an equipped cellphone on your waist. The application will be bundled on Fujitsu’s mobile phones for NTT Docomo, and Fujitsu group’s web company Nitfy Corporation is planning to host a network service to which users can… Continue reading Cellphone To Check Your Golf Swing