There is no reason for i-mode provider NTT Docomo to give up on its highly profitable mobile Internet service for feature phones as long as it makes money, but Japan’s biggest mobile carrier is starting to change things. According to Japanese business daily The Nikkei, Docomo is moving to combine its i-mode and smartphone businesses… Continue reading Docomo Merges i-Mode And Smartphone Businesses
Month: March 2011
Tokyo Girls Collection Aired On YouTube Live Streaming
One of Japan’s largest fashion show, Tokyo Girls Collection held its 12th event today at Yoyogi National Gymnasium. Apart from other fashion events exclusively for fashion designers and apparel buyers, it intends young girls to buy what they want with their cellphone handsets while watching the show on which women celebrities and models present… Continue reading Tokyo Girls Collection Aired On YouTube Live Streaming
Yahoo! Mobage Passes 3 Million Users In 5 Months, Facebook Falls Down To 6th Position
Yahoo! Mobage [J], a joint PC social game platform by two Japanese web gorillas Yahoo! Japan and DeNA, announced [J] that the number of their users passed over three million in 5 months since its official open on October 1st, 2010. 3 million is bigger than 2.55 million, the number of active users Facebook Japan… Continue reading Yahoo! Mobage Passes 3 Million Users In 5 Months, Facebook Falls Down To 6th Position
Coca Cola Japan’s Facebook Promotion App Stopped Two Days
Coca Cola Japan’s Coca Cola Park [J] is one of the most successful Facebook promotion is Japan. The original promotion site, which supports both Facebook and Mixi, embraces 10 million members, half a billion page views per month. Sugoi Jihanki (= great vendor machine) is a Facebook app provided in the Coca Cola Park. On… Continue reading Coca Cola Japan’s Facebook Promotion App Stopped Two Days
Kawaii Security – Over 30 Computer Virus Personified In Japanese Security Book
It is understandable to make your favorite web services drawn as characters, but how about internet viruses? A Japanese publisher Sansai Books started selling a security book “Kawaii Security”, which enlightens you computer virus history since 1980’s, with over 30 infamous viruses anthropomorphized in cute anime-style characters. Which virus being personified in the book has… Continue reading Kawaii Security – Over 30 Computer Virus Personified In Japanese Security Book
Amazon Cloud Makes Landing On Tokyo, Japan
Amazon Web Services announced on March 2 that they had added a Tokyo data center as its 5th in the world, 2nd in Asia after Singapore. Almost all of Amazon Web Services except Elastic MapReduce, Elastic Beanstalk, Import/Export are already available. The official blog says that there are several Japanese companies have been already using… Continue reading Amazon Cloud Makes Landing On Tokyo, Japan
What New iPad2 Smart Cover Reminds Japanese – Bath Tub Lid
Apple’s new iPad2 announcement was followed by a lot of coverage, so I do not have much to add from Japan. A funny thing happened in Japanese web was about their newly-introduced official option – case. Japanese bath tub lid is common item in Japanese home. The reason is that in Japan, family members share… Continue reading What New iPad2 Smart Cover Reminds Japanese – Bath Tub Lid
Steply: A HK-made Photo Sharing App Attracts iPhone Users, Especially In Asia
Last August, I was invited to attend Startup Saturday, a Hong Kong’s first ever remarkable tech start-up event, by Takeshi Hirano, the editor and writer for TechCrunch Japan, during his one-month visit to the city. Then I could meet young aspiring entrepreneurs from more than a dozen of great tech start-up companies. One of those… Continue reading Steply: A HK-made Photo Sharing App Attracts iPhone Users, Especially In Asia
Using Your Smartphone Camera To Count Calories
We’ve come across a service by NTT Communications tentatively called “Health Enhancement Assist Service” [J], which unlike its name, is an incredibly interesting little innovation in the world of health management apps and web services. The smartphone app / web service allows people to keep track of their daily diet via their smartphone cameras, an extremely relevant… Continue reading Using Your Smartphone Camera To Count Calories
Groupon Japan Being Chased Up By Recruit’s Pompare – Maybe Osechigate Affected
Daily deal coupon search service Coupon.jp released [J] their February research on Japanese daily deal coupon service sales by calculating each site’s coupon prices and number of sold tickets. On their chart, No.2 Pompare, run by Recruit, shows 30% growth to be about 70% of No.1 Groupon Japan’s sales. It was about half in January… Continue reading Groupon Japan Being Chased Up By Recruit’s Pompare – Maybe Osechigate Affected