Author: Masaru IKEDA

Piping Manufacturer Invents New Idea To Control Typhoons With Subs

The Mainichi Shimbun, one of Japan’s major newspapers, reports[J] a manufacturing company called Ise Kogyo[J] in the Central Japan has invented a new idea that enables to let a typhoon downshift its strength with a bunch of submarines.  Twenty submarines having special equipments for pumping out cold water from the deep sea to the sea… Continue reading Piping Manufacturer Invents New Idea To Control Typhoons With Subs

Update: Asiajin To Host Reader Meet-up In Singapore On Saturday

Hello, Asiajin readers in Singapore! I’ve just planned to attend Accelerate 2010, one of Asia’s biggest annual tech events that we also serve as a media sponsor of.   Since I’ll be in Singapore in that week, by using this opportunity, in order to exchange friendships and communicate with our readers in the country on a… Continue reading Update: Asiajin To Host Reader Meet-up In Singapore On Saturday

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

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

Mixi Launches Social App Platform For Smartphone Users, Too

Mixi[J], needless to say, one of Japan’s largest social networks, had a briefing conference entitled Mixi Meetup 2010 today, announced they had launched a social app platform for their smartphone-optimized user interface called mixi Touch. As of today, the following social apps are available on the platform. (Links given to app names in the list… Continue reading Mixi Launches Social App Platform For Smartphone Users, Too

Tokyo’s Social App Provider Pokelabo Fundraises USD12M From DCM And Mobage-Town

On Wednesday, Tokyo-based social app provider Pokelabo[J] announced that they had fundraised USD12M from Silicon Valley-headquartered VC firm DCM and IncubateFund[J], an investment fund by DeNA owning social app and mobile game platform Mobage-Town. Pokelabo was founded three years ago by the company’s CEO and his “Mixi[J]-mates”.  It has developed flash games for feature phones,… Continue reading Tokyo’s Social App Provider Pokelabo Fundraises USD12M From DCM And Mobage-Town

Asiajin Android Reader App Debuts

Tokyo-based Android app developer ACL Inc.[J] has kindly developed the Android Reader App for us, it has been just released today on the Android Market.   Following MotherApp’s iPhone Reader App which was introduced at the beginning of this year, now we have our exclusive apps for both of the two major smartphone platforms. We wish… Continue reading Asiajin Android Reader App Debuts