Year: 2010

Nintendo Admits Blowing-Cartridge Is Not Only Meaningless But Harmful After A Quarter Century

Nintendo celebrates 25 years anniversary of Super Mario by TV commercial in Japan. The commercial depicts that a guy plays the first Super Mario Brothers in 1985 (see TV set and a radio-cassette recorder). It was a common scene nationwide. But on their special website [J], Nintendo put another short movie and warns users “Don’t… Continue reading Nintendo Admits Blowing-Cartridge Is Not Only Meaningless But Harmful After A Quarter Century

Is Steve Stopped At Airport? May Be Fiction But Now Animated

Japan’s tabloid magazine SPA![J] reported that Apple’s CEO Steve Jobs had been barred from taking Ninja throwing stars aboard his private jet plane at an airport in Osaka, and Apple’s spokesman denied it and told Bloomberg News that Steve had visited in Kyoto but the incidents described were a pure fiction. Taiwan’s NMA (Next Media… Continue reading Is Steve Stopped At Airport? May Be Fiction But Now Animated

New Singer Debuts From Video Sharing Site, Then Performs In Real Space At Record Shop

New male singer “Clear” introduced his first album last Wednesday, its sales surpassed 13,000 copies by the end of last week.  It’s ranked in the 9th place for Japan’s Billboard-like company Oricon’s weekly album sales chart[J]. He started his ‘singer’ career by posting his performance videos into the “I just tried singing out” section of… Continue reading New Singer Debuts From Video Sharing Site, Then Performs In Real Space At Record Shop

The iPhone Makes You Much Easier To Park On City Streets

Tokyo-based mobile service integrator IMJ Mobile[J] and its subsidiary developing iPhone/Android apps Bottle Cube have introduced the iPhone app that allows you to find available parking lots near where you are by using GPS. IMJ Mobile has a database consisting from more than 36,000 parking lot location data, and they’ve been presenting the data to… Continue reading The iPhone Makes You Much Easier To Park On City Streets

Twitter Explained In Two Manga Comics

Mitaka no Chushin de Nau wo Tsubuyaku Mitaka no Chushin de Nau wo Tsubuyaku(I Tweeted “Now!” at the Heart of Mitaka) The manga “Mitaka no Chushin de Nau wo Tsubuyaku” was published by Shogakukan in July 2010 drawn by comic essay cartoonist Yoko Gendai, which is likely the first Twitter manga in Japan, and so… Continue reading Twitter Explained In Two Manga Comics

Lots Of Popular Names Leaves And Joins Happens This Month

We reported that a Japanese web geeks’ icon Naoya Ito’s move on September 1st from Hatena to the No.1 social networking service Gree, but he was not the only one. There are several big names reported to leave and/or enter web/IT companies in Japan around the beginning of September 2010. Poupee Girl CEO Yoshimi Morinaga,… Continue reading Lots Of Popular Names Leaves And Joins Happens This Month

PostSell Adds Personalized Product Recommendations To Email Receipts

Singapore-based startup PostSell has one goal: boosting sales of online retailers through product recommendations in email receipts. In other words, it’s just like Amazon’s “Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought” being built into emails that you get from shops after buying something online. What’s interesting is that PostSell says 70% of buyers actually open… Continue reading PostSell Adds Personalized Product Recommendations To Email Receipts

Mixi Introduces New APIs; Enabling To Integrate Home Appliances With The Social Graph

There’s one more thing to tell you on Mixi[J]. Mixi upgraded the interface that has been introduced for two years to those who have partnered, and introduced two APIs – “mixi Plugin[J]” and “mixi Graph APIs[J]” on Friday.   mixi Graph APIs are designed for the third parties to integrate their social web services and apps… Continue reading Mixi Introduces New APIs; Enabling To Integrate Home Appliances With The Social Graph