On Friday, at Mobile Yakan Daigaku[J], a serial after-hours study session and meet-up event for the mobile industry people, a tech incubator’s director Mr. Ryo Umezawa[J] presented a wrap-up of the tour titled “JIMS on the Plane” that he and mobile entrepreneurs had organized and visited tech start-ups in Silicon Valley for information and opinion… Continue reading JIMS On The Plane: What They Learn From SV Tech Start-ups
Month: November 2009
iPhone Disappears From Top 10 In Japan (for a week)
A blog iPhone Fan pointed out [J] that the everyone’s favourite BCN Ranking loses iPhone from its top 10 this week. Top 10 of the most sold cellphone during the week from Nov. 16th to 22nd includes 4 Sharp, 3 Fujitsu and 4 others by vendor, 8 Docomo and 2 KDDI au by carrier. iPhone… Continue reading iPhone Disappears From Top 10 In Japan (for a week)
Twitter Paid Account Plan Clearly Denied By Digital Garage
Official Twitter Japan blog [J] just wrote about their local partner Digital Garage’s announcement, which negates the news reported Twitter Japan will start paid account service. In response to media reports stating that Twitter Japan will be launching a paid-premium accounts service on Twitter, we would like to officially state that this is not correct.… Continue reading Twitter Paid Account Plan Clearly Denied By Digital Garage
Make Tokyo Meeting 04: Where You Can See Future, Magic And Junk In A Place
Last weekend at Ookayama Campus, Tokyo Institute of Technology, O’reilly Media‘s mechatronics magazine “Make” held the 4th meeting[J] and gave Japanese geeks the opportunities to present their gadgets to the public. Let’s have a look at some of remarkable and unique items which get us excited. Tokyo-based tech start-up (founded by graduates from the University… Continue reading Make Tokyo Meeting 04: Where You Can See Future, Magic And Junk In A Place
24 yo Woman Broadcasts Her Death Leap
Stickam Japan is a personal video streaming service, a Japanese version of US Stickam.com, which is said to be owned by Japanese. Today on Stickam Japan, a girl whose handle is _mextli attempted suicide by jumping off her balcony, the 4th floor of apartment, during her live videostream, some watchers wrote on 2 channel BBS.… Continue reading 24 yo Woman Broadcasts Her Death Leap
Exclusive Interview: How Does myGengo’s String Help Site Translation?
We’ve covered myGengo, web-based human translation service startup in Japan on our previous article on translation tools in June. Since then, while publishing Twitter account translations and an in-depth industry report, they’ve been busy working on a new feature called String. I got to talk with Matt Romaine and Rob Laing from the team about… Continue reading Exclusive Interview: How Does myGengo’s String Help Site Translation?
Virtual world Ameba Pigg to go English next spring in Americanized version
Tokyo-based (and listed) web juggernaut CyberAgent‘s virtual world Ameba Pigg [JP] has proven to be a veritable success here in Japan since its launch this February. The company says there are now 1.5 million members in the virtual community, with an undisclosed number of those coming from Non-Japanese-speaking countries (the service is Japanese only). But… Continue reading Virtual world Ameba Pigg to go English next spring in Americanized version
Cute Girl Duo Gets A Higher Attention Than What They Promote
Tokyo-based start-up company Cerevo[J] will begin accepting orders for the company’s first product Cerevo Cam next Tuesday. It’s an Internet-enabled digital camera that automatically uploads your pictures to photo sharing services such as Flickr when it’s at WiFi locations, without ejecting a memory card nor using a USB cable. Therefore, if you’d like to share… Continue reading Cute Girl Duo Gets A Higher Attention Than What They Promote
iPhone Now Turns To Be Good Tool For Playing On Green
Tokyo-based system integrator developing LBS (location-based service) and GIS (geographic information system) applications Wave On[J] just introduced a convenient iPhone/iPod touch app for golf lovers. This is called Question Yards[E/J] and allows you to measure the approximate distance to the pin on a green that marks the hole by taking a picture having the pin… Continue reading iPhone Now Turns To Be Good Tool For Playing On Green
Osaka-based Consultancy Forms A Network Giving Entrepreneurs Many Cost-Savings & Various Supports
Tokyo-, Osaka- and Shanghai-based business consultancy providing support for start-up companies, Akinai Research Institute[J] just introduced a new program encouraging entrepreneurs in terms of financial, personnel and material resources in association with nine program supporting partners. Entrepreneurs joining the program can get benefits by receiving complimentary services and packages as follows. Microsoft BizSpark: offering free… Continue reading Osaka-based Consultancy Forms A Network Giving Entrepreneurs Many Cost-Savings & Various Supports