Your Cellphone Helps Inducing A Coincidental Meet To Dating

The Tokyo-based mobile app start-up YouMind[J] launched last Friday the free mobile service called Hitomebo[J], which allows you to record where and when you have seen cute girls or handsome boys and fallen in love, just only with a GPS-compatible mobile phone. One of the the company’s directors experienced to see a cute girl in… Continue reading Your Cellphone Helps Inducing A Coincidental Meet To Dating

Two Broadband Video Streaming Sites To Be Merged To Survive

   Yahoo Japan[J] announced Tuesday it would buy 51% stake in Gyao[J] which is the free broadband video streaming service and has been wholly owned by Japan’s largest cable music broadcaster USEN.   Yahoo Japan will buy Gyao’s 4,998 shares for USD5.3M, and merge Gyao and Yahoo Douga (Yahoo Japan’s free video streaming service) together this… Continue reading Two Broadband Video Streaming Sites To Be Merged To Survive

NTT DoCoMo Buys 51% Stake in Japan’s 4th Largest Informercial Company

Japan’s largest cellphone career, NTT DoCoMo announced it has agreed to  buy 51% stake for approx. USD310M in the country’s 4th largest TV infomercial company based in Nagoya, Oak Lawn Marketing(OLM). OLM was co-founded by a Chicagoese and university graduate who visited Nagoya in 1989.   The company is best known for selling a German stain remover… Continue reading NTT DoCoMo Buys 51% Stake in Japan’s 4th Largest Informercial Company

Ichitaro Inventor, Just Systems To Be Subsidiary of The Osaka-Based Sensor Company

The Japanese word processing software pioneer, Just Systems announced today it would increase the capital by allocating new shares to the Osaka-based sensor manufacturer Keyence Corporation.   Keyence plans to buy 43.96% stake in Just Systems, and it worths USD45M. After a full chase with the other word processing softwares like Microsoft Word, Just Systems’ money-making… Continue reading Ichitaro Inventor, Just Systems To Be Subsidiary of The Osaka-Based Sensor Company

April Fools’ Day Jokes On Japanese Websphere

On the day when all we are permitted to wag the dog, many companies devoted themselves to create attractive pranks on their websites.    I wrapped up what had happened on Japanese web scene. For pursuing the journalist’s perspective to be honest on the facts, we Asiajin report no prank nor joke, but do the fact… Continue reading April Fools’ Day Jokes On Japanese Websphere

Train Your Singing With iPhone Under Cherry Trees, And Attend MySpace Japan’s Karaoke Contest

Japan’s third largest karaoke company Xing[J](pronounced “eksing”) started Monday the free karaoke service[J] on MySpace Japan(MSJ)[J], which enables to record your karaoke performance on video or audio.  Twenty five brand new tunes will be added to the lineups every week, the video recording your performance can be shared with your friends on the SNS.  In… Continue reading Train Your Singing With iPhone Under Cherry Trees, And Attend MySpace Japan’s Karaoke Contest

“Refugee Camp” Is Launched For Stray Blog Readers Who Have Lost Their Favorites

You would like to avoid moving your blog to a new platform as far as being satisfied with the one you are currently using. However, your blog platform provider may suddenly shut down its service due to their financial reasons or policy changes. When moving, in order to prevent disengaging your fans, you are truly… Continue reading “Refugee Camp” Is Launched For Stray Blog Readers Who Have Lost Their Favorites

How To Grow A Music Star Without Street Live Performance In Tokyo

There used to be some pedestrian precincts in Tokyo, where young indie music artists and bands came down from every corner of the country, they performed their original tunes in front of a street audience and dreamed to debut and release their sound pieces from major labels. But now in the highly populated area of… Continue reading How To Grow A Music Star Without Street Live Performance In Tokyo

Is WiFi availability A Key To Choose The Route For Business Travellers and Commuters?

In order to save your daily expense in such a recession time, if you’d like to subscribe to the charge-free news service with the iPhone instead of purchasing newspaper at the station kiosk every morning, you must feel uncomfortable to download its content data on the train.    The iPhone apps requiring a huge amount of… Continue reading Is WiFi availability A Key To Choose The Route For Business Travellers and Commuters?

Your TV To Show Commercial Messages In Response To Your Local Weather

In association with the meteorology company eTen[J], the Tokyo-based broadband TV portal operator Actvila[J] plans to launch weather-linked TV ad showing to the operator’s service subscribers in this coming April. When signing up with the portal service, you will be requested to enter your zip code, which allows the operator to learn where you live.  … Continue reading Your TV To Show Commercial Messages In Response To Your Local Weather