KDDI R&D Laboratory, a subsidiary of Japan’s No.2 phone company KDDI Corporation, developed a technology to know cellphone holder’s actions remotely, by using data from acceleration sensor embedded on cellphones. photo by Daily Portal Z – “How to sleep at office” Until now, cellphone motion sensor could only detect holder’s repetitive movement like walking or… Continue reading Cellphone Checks If Employees Goofing Off
Category: Japan
February 2010 Japan-IT Links (Part 2)
Latter half of February news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (Part 1) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Keeping Household Accounts By Taking Receipt With Cellphone Camera For New Sharp/Softbank Mobile Phone Dentsu Tech Launches Cellphone 3D AR App For 3 Major Carriers Performance Marketing Starts Consulting To… Continue reading February 2010 Japan-IT Links (Part 2)
20.5% Of Japanese Owns 2 Or More Cellphones
On an article “Half Of Japanese Male iPhone Users Keep Their Japanese Cellphone” comments I got a good question from @seanohagan, It would be interesting to see how this number compares to an average Japanese male. What percentage of Japanese men have 2 cellphones? Did the research mention anything about that? He is right. Without… Continue reading 20.5% Of Japanese Owns 2 Or More Cellphones
Anti-Pollen-Allegy Nostril Cleansing Ringtone
Index Corporation announced that its cellphone ringtone site Sokuho Music Search (Sokuho = breaking news) provides a new version of ringtone collections “Hana Sukkiri Melody” (Hana Sukkiri = cleared up nostril). “The ringtone will make a nose has resonant frequency with pollens adherent inside your nasal cavity, so eventually pollens fall down. ” Improved from… Continue reading Anti-Pollen-Allegy Nostril Cleansing Ringtone
Yahoo! Auction Releases iPhone App
Yahoo! Auction, Japan No.1 auction website who had defeated eBay in 2002 (eBay now collaborates with Yahoo! Auction), expands [J] its frontend into growing smartphone segment with a free iPhone application which name is “Yahuoku”. “Yahuoku” is Japanese abbreviation form of Yahoo! Auction (such like “Super Mario” becomes “Su-mari” and “Pocket Monster” to “Pokemon”) and… Continue reading Yahoo! Auction Releases iPhone App
Half Of Japanese Male iPhone Users Keep Their Japanese Cellphone
Nikkei BP Consulting and AdMob ran an online research to 1,000 Japanese iPhone users. The result [J] tells that 49.4% of Japanese Male iPhone Users have two or more cellphones. On the same research, male:female ratio is 72.3%:27.7%. Web-tan Forum [J] who reported excerpt of this paid research did not mention how much of female… Continue reading Half Of Japanese Male iPhone Users Keep Their Japanese Cellphone
February 2010 Japan-IT Links (Part 1)
First half of February news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (follows to Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Another Japanese iPad on… iTunes! Google Logo Contests By Kids, Japan round English translations of some popular 2-channel phrases NEC’s Android based touchscreen gear like iPad (December 2009… Continue reading February 2010 Japan-IT Links (Part 1)
Nikkei Officially Announced Its Digital Version With 4,000 Yen Per Month
As we reported the leaked info last month, Japan’s industrial newspaper Nikkei Shimbun (Nikkei is abbreviation of Nihon Keizai = Japan’s economy) is to begin their paid online version since March 23rd 2010. The service name is “The Nihon Keizai Shimbun Digital Version”, nicknameed “Web-Kan”. This “Kan” means “publish” in Japanese. As rumoured, the subscription… Continue reading Nikkei Officially Announced Its Digital Version With 4,000 Yen Per Month
The First Twitter Drama Starts In April In Japan
Fuji Television (Fuji TV), a Tokyo key station who has nationwide network, announced their coming Spring drama program which features Twitter. The drama “Sunao ni Narenakute” [J], which directly means “I cannot be honest.” in English, but it is also the same as the translation of Chicago’s song “Hard to Say I’m Sorry“. The synopsis… Continue reading The First Twitter Drama Starts In April In Japan
Planned In Japan: e-Books Only Downloadable At… Bookstore?
Kowa Computer Co. Ltd., who have been providing book publishing system for industry, revealed that they are to enter downloadable e-book market with their own smart-phone-sized device. The unique thing about their system different from Amazon Kindle and Apple iBook is, that the users will be able to download their e-book only at the retail… Continue reading Planned In Japan: e-Books Only Downloadable At… Bookstore?