Google held “Google Developer Day 2009“, an annual conference introducing a number of technology trends that the company had recently developed, in Yokohama on Tuesday and started with a keynote speech made by its Tokyo office president Koichiro Tsujino[J]. Following Tsujino’s expressing his appreciation for a large participation in the event, the company’s senior product… Continue reading Google Developer Day 2009 Yokohama
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Dial Phone Number To Get To Website
NTT Mediacross (NTT-MC)[J], an NTT group company specifically focusing on providing TV broadcasters with several solutions to make their programs more interactive with program viewers, introduced a new service enabling to navigate the viewers easily to a website that a broadcaster would like to present in synchronization with program broadcast. The service is scheduled… Continue reading Dial Phone Number To Get To Website
Japanese Newspaper Finally Tweets
For the first case in Japanese newspaper’s history, Asahi Shimbun, one of the country’s nationwide major papers, set up an account for Twitter[J] today, and is running play-by-play tweet about the scene of a preliminary match for this year’s football world championship, Japan vs. Qatar, which is now being played at Nissan Stadium in Yokohama.… Continue reading Japanese Newspaper Finally Tweets
IVP Launches New Fund Raised By Web2.0 Celebrities In Japan & China
On Wednesday, Infinity Venture LLP[J] announced it would launch a new fund targeting investment on mobile start-ups in Japan and Mainland China. The Fundraisers for this are founders and presidents from tech-startups including DeNA (Mobile SNS) , Mixi[J] (SNS), Opt (web advertising agency) and P&A (investment firm founded by Rakuten‘s former CTO), who have made… Continue reading IVP Launches New Fund Raised By Web2.0 Celebrities In Japan & China
Japan’s Leading Publisher Fails To Monetize Its Main Portal
Reportedly Japan’s leading publisher Kodansha seems to have stopped updating its portal site on June 1st. The portal site, named “Moura[J]” (meaning “covering the entire world”), was launched in 2005, following the web edition of the publisher’s popular weekly magazine “Gendai[J]“. Almost 50 web editorial staffs were notified to dismiss the team so lately as… Continue reading Japan’s Leading Publisher Fails To Monetize Its Main Portal
Japanese Manga/Anime: Simulcast and Same Day Release On Two Sides Of The Pacific
This coming Sunday, Toei Animation, Shueisha[J] and Fuji-TV will start broadcast the popular Japanese TV animation series “One Piece” on the Internet for North American audience, in association with U.S. based largest Internet animation distributor, FUNimation Entertaiment (inaccessible from Japan). Every episode will be available just one hour after its original broadcast in Japan. (c)Copyright… Continue reading Japanese Manga/Anime: Simulcast and Same Day Release On Two Sides Of The Pacific
Make Your Blog Catchier With Yellow Paper’s Know-How
Kayac[J], a funny web app developer based in Tokyo’s suburb, and Tokyo Sports[J] (a.k.a. Toh-spo), a daily sports newspaper company, jointly introduced a blodget[J] on Wednesday, which may make your blog much catchier. Toh-spo covers sports and show biz news everyday, and it is an yellow paper having a large circulation. Tokyo businessmen love… Continue reading Make Your Blog Catchier With Yellow Paper’s Know-How
Giant Partnership of Game and Ad Sets Off New Wave Of Video Broadcast
Coincidentally I write up several stories featuring video services using media other than terrestrial TV broadcast system in this Japan’s serial holidays season. Nintendo and the world’s largest advertising agency Dentsu started Friday a video broadcast service on a 3D virtual world designed for Nintendo’s game platform Wii. The new service is named “Wii no… Continue reading Giant Partnership of Game and Ad Sets Off New Wave Of Video Broadcast
Japanese Broadcasters Jointly Launch 24hr. Int’l TV Channel
Japan International Broadcasting (JIB) launched Friday its 24-hour English-language TV channel called jibtv, and started Internet-based broadcast as well as satellite broadcast service worldwide. Former NHK’s news anchor and former spokesman at Japan’s foreign ministry, Hatsuhisa Takashima serves as the president of the company, and it is fund raised by NHK, NTT Communications, Microsoft and… Continue reading Japanese Broadcasters Jointly Launch 24hr. Int’l TV Channel
Avex and NTT DoCoMo Launch TV Station Exclusively For Cellphone Users
On Friday, a joint venture of the Tokyo-based emerging music company Avex Group and Japan’s largest cellphone operator NTT DoCoMo, Avex Broadcasting & Communications Inc. launched a TV service called BeeTV[J], which is fully designed for cellphone handsets viewing. Unlike 1-seg TV service using a segment in terrestrial digital broadcast wave to carry visual and… Continue reading Avex and NTT DoCoMo Launch TV Station Exclusively For Cellphone Users