Today at noon, the Tokyo-based independent ISP Interlink[J] started the world’s first contest inviting new generic top level domains (gTLDs) of your own. We used to have a limitation in choosing an option of gTLDs, but it was fully liberalized by the resolution that was made at ICANN‘s board meeting in 2008. .car(dot car), .web(dot… Continue reading Apply Your Original gTLD To Be A Millionaire
Author: Masaru IKEDA
Explore Japan With Your Favorite Driving Video-streamers
Currently, there’s a boom that many geeks install wireless-enabled video cameras on their cars, and that they publish captured on-board video movies on video sharing sites such as Nico Nico Douga[J] (link to videos tagged with on-board camera view, requiring username and password) and Ustream. The videos can make you feel as though you were… Continue reading Explore Japan With Your Favorite Driving Video-streamers
Does Skimming At Bookstores Make You Feel Restless? Try It Near Utility Poles
Livedoor Wireless[J], an outdoor WiFi service provided by a dot-com company which is known for its founder being accused of fraud, teamed up with the tech company Wayz Japan[J] running a website which aggregates the content of magazine back-issues, and now any passerby-es are allowed to read the back number contents near a number of… Continue reading Does Skimming At Bookstores Make You Feel Restless? Try It Near Utility Poles
Check Up Supermarket Prices At Station With Your Mobile
People say two key reasons why they subscribe to daily newspaper are for checking up TV program’s time table and free standing inserts provided by local supermarkets. The inserts are very important items especially for housewives who have to manage the family budgets. On Friday, it became possible for them to check up the latest… Continue reading Check Up Supermarket Prices At Station With Your Mobile
New Law Approved To Permit Nonbank Remittance And To Accelerate E-Commerce Deals
New legislation (its proposal draft[J]), which allows nonbanks to deal with payments and money transfers, was approved by the Lower House of Japan today. It will accelerate competition in reducing remittance charges among banks and potential service agents in this market. In order to protect consumers from damages caused by possible bankruptcies of remittance agents,… Continue reading New Law Approved To Permit Nonbank Remittance And To Accelerate E-Commerce Deals
Japan’s First iPhone Ad Network Arouses More Useful Free Apps
Traffic Gate, an affiliate service provider and a joint venture of two of Japan’s major dot-com companies CyberAgent and Rakuten, unveiled today a new ad network for developing ad-revenue services using iPhone app, named “TG Ad for iPhone[J]“. It is a very similar approach to AdMob‘s mobile ad solutions that the San Francisco-based tech company… Continue reading Japan’s First iPhone Ad Network Arouses More Useful Free Apps
McDonald’s And Nintendo Team Up To Call In More Minors
McDonald’s Japan[J] teamed up with Nintendo, and today it launches a new service allowing Nintendo DS users to download Pokemon avatars, evaluation copies of game software and discount coupon for the humburger meals for free via WiFi access points installed at 3,200 McDonalds shops in Japan, which is 85% of the entire fast food chain.… Continue reading McDonald’s And Nintendo Team Up To Call In More Minors
Original Comic Distribution To Be Launched For World’s iPhone-rs
In July, Hot Source[J], a Tokyo-based start-up company, will start online comic distrubution service specifically designed for iPhone/iPod devices, in association with Sakura Cube[J] operating an Internet comic sale site. Unlike similar services that other iPhone/iPod app-based content publishers provide by scanning paper-printed comics, Hot Source’s new series are originally developed to be seen on… Continue reading Original Comic Distribution To Be Launched For World’s iPhone-rs
Eva-Phone Confirmed To Produce Additional Lots
NTT DoCoMo announced it would introduce a new model cellphone handset[J] featuring a new animation film, EVANGELION: 2.0 YOU CAN (NOT) ADVANCE[J] which is scheduled to be released at cinemas in late June. All of 20,000 lots reserved for advance orders were completely sold out as few as in five hours just after DoCoMo had… Continue reading Eva-Phone Confirmed To Produce Additional Lots
Honda Launches Ranking Site To Encourage Owners To Compete In Fuel-Efficiency
Today, Honda Motor launched a page, titled “Eco Grand Prix”[J], on its corporate website, which shows realtime ranking in fuel-efficiency of the company’s brand new hybrid vehicle “Insight” being driven nationwide in Japan. A fuel-efficiency optimization system installed on each of the vehicles will automatically transmit data to Honda’s information analysis center, and it ranks… Continue reading Honda Launches Ranking Site To Encourage Owners To Compete In Fuel-Efficiency