A blog juggly.cn reported that they got a leaked image of Fujitsu’s new 2011 summer model cellphone for Docomo, which name is LOOX F-07c, which is a dual boot cellphone with Symbian/Windows 7. It’s not “Windows Phone 7”, “Windows 7”. The reported specifications are: Windows 7/Symbian dual OS, switchable in a single action 125mm(H) x… Continue reading Leaked: Not “Windows Phone 7” But “Windows 7 Phone” May Come In Summer In Japan
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March 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
Early part of March news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. CyberAgent To Start iPhone Social Game Platform GameWave For North America And Global Full-flat Office Chair Enables You To Stay Even For A Week At Office Recruit Pompare… Continue reading March 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
Japan Gov. Requests The Internet To Delete False Disaster Rumors
Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC) announced [J] that they had requested four Internet related organizations to delete “false rumors” on online bulletin boards “to keep safety and peace of mind in disastrous area”. The four organizations are, Telecommunications Carriers Association(TCA), Telecom Services Association(TELESA) [J], Japan Internet Providers Association(JAIPA) and Japan Cable and Telecommunications Association(JCTA).… Continue reading Japan Gov. Requests The Internet To Delete False Disaster Rumors
Japanese Government Opens Social Media(=Twitter) Guide Site For Public Organizations
Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry(METI) opened “Public Organization Social Media Portal” [J] to educate national governmental sections and local governments on how to utilize social media. The portal shows several guidelines for 1. citizens to see social media and 2. government workers to send information via social media. Interesting thing is, on this… Continue reading Japanese Government Opens Social Media(=Twitter) Guide Site For Public Organizations
Public Service AC Commercial Buzz Pulls More Parody Videos
We reported that placeholder public service commercial buzzed crazy a week after the Eastern Japan Disasters. This AC commercial film parodies have been being added more and more. Each of cartoon character on the original ads calling people in society to greet and care each other, now has its own derivative works by mainly users… Continue reading Public Service AC Commercial Buzz Pulls More Parody Videos
Goo To End RSS Reader And Movie Sharing Service
Goo, a Japanese web portal run by NTT Resonant, a group company of NTT, announced to terminate their two sub services. Goo RSS Reader All variations of Goo’s RSS Readers, web reader [J], Windows application version and Japanese cellphone version will be discontinued [J]. PC and mobile web versions will stop on May 31, 2011.… Continue reading Goo To End RSS Reader And Movie Sharing Service
NHK’s Weather Character Haruchan(@nhk_haruchan) Starts Tweeting
Haruchan (Haru=Spring, chan=casual form of san, honorific title) is a popular personified Spring character on public broadcast TV NHK’s prime time weather news program. She was made by anthropomorphizing high pressure system in Spring weather. Here is a sample of the weather report program, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu6f4CDix7U On April 4, this virtual character girl began Twitter [J]… Continue reading NHK’s Weather Character Haruchan(@nhk_haruchan) Starts Tweeting
Nifty To Shut Off Podcasting Juice, A Podcasting Portal
Nifty [J], a Fujitsu-affiliated internet service provider/web portal, announced that they are going to close their podcast portal. Podcasting Juice [J] by Nifty is one of the popular podcasting portal began in July 2005 in Japan. The service was announced to be terminated on September 30th 2011. Nifty said that it is difficult to keep… Continue reading Nifty To Shut Off Podcasting Juice, A Podcasting Portal
DeNA And CyberAgent To Start Joint Smartphone Ads Network For Mobage/Ameba
DeNA announced that CyberAgent and they are to established a new joint venture company at the end of April. The company will form an ads network for smartphone since May. CyberAgent will own 51%, DeNA 49%. DeNA holds 24.48 million social network users on Mobage and Yahoo! Mobage, Cyber Agent has 13 million users on… Continue reading DeNA And CyberAgent To Start Joint Smartphone Ads Network For Mobage/Ameba
Japan Consumer Affairs Agency Warns Penny Auction Sites
Consumer Affairs Agency, Government of Japan(CAA) [J] made public their administrative order [J, pdf] against 5 Japanese penny auction web services on March 31. Violation against “Keihin Hyouji Hou”(Act against Unjustifiable Premiums and Misleading Representations) is notified to DMM, Agito and Zerooku.