Category: Japan

Amazon US Begins Same Day Delivery A Fortnight After Japan

When I reported Amazon Japan’s Same Day Delivery at the beginning of this month, I thought it would only be possible in a small dense country like Japan. I was wrong. Amazon US announced its same day service on October 15th in the following 7 cities, New York City – Order as late as 10… Continue reading Amazon US Begins Same Day Delivery A Fortnight After Japan

Japan-Only Twitter Mobile Page Takes Off

As implied by teaser page, Twitter Japan has launched an official Japanese cellphone site http://twtr.jp. Here is the teaser page changed to a guide page which has both cellphone site URL and QR Code. The current mobile site http://m.twitter.com/, which is not really usable (it did not work with many of Japanese phone browsers) for… Continue reading Japan-Only Twitter Mobile Page Takes Off

Twitter Launches Video Service From Japan

Twitvideo, a new video tweeting service working with Twitter, was released on October 5th 2009 by DG Mobile Inc., a subsidiary of Digital Garage Inc., a Japanese Twitter partner which invested in Twitter and has been running Twitter Japan’s localization and promotion since January 2008. Using the site, Japanese twitter users can post and share… Continue reading Twitter Launches Video Service From Japan

Two Different Approaches To Digitize Printed Magazines

It is very interesting that there are two different ways leading to the almost same results.   I wonder which approach makes it successful in their business.   What do you think? Tokyo-based e-commerce related service provider Enigmo launched a new service last Wednesday, which is named Corseka[J] and allows users to browse and read their favorite… Continue reading Two Different Approaches To Digitize Printed Magazines

Top 50 Of Japan’s Most Rapidly Growing Tech Startups. GREE Is No. 1.

Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu has compiled a list of the 50 fastest-growing tech firms in Japan [JP, PDF], and it’s quite interesting. The so-called Nippon Technology FAST50 was released yesterday by the company’s Tokyo subsidiary, and I took the liberty to fully translate the list. Deloitte says the ranking is based on sales growth over the… Continue reading Top 50 Of Japan’s Most Rapidly Growing Tech Startups. GREE Is No. 1.

Twitter Japan Teasing Special Mobile Site For Japanese Cellphone

Twitter Japan’s official twitter account tweeted to give an URL under their official twitter navigation site twinavi.jp. It looks like that this teaser page is for newly coming Japanese cellphone compliant mobile website for 3 major carriers, NTT Docomo, KDDI au and Softbank Mobile. Months ago Twitter Japan announced that they would develop a special… Continue reading Twitter Japan Teasing Special Mobile Site For Japanese Cellphone

7-Month-Old Infant Tweets On Custom Twitter App

A Japanese blogger @ueblog presented his 7-month-old daughter, who is enthralled by typing notebook keyboard, a specially programmed twitter client Rukotter in programming language Python with wxPython. Video is here, Her twitter account is @ruko_ueblog. The client is well considered for infants, runs on full screen when typing exceeds a certain number of letters, automatically… Continue reading 7-Month-Old Infant Tweets On Custom Twitter App

Taiwan’s Far EasTone Starts Distributing Japanese Manga For Cellphone Users

Tokyo-based digital content distributor Bitway[J] started distributing popular Japanese manga series today to handsets of Taiwanese cellphone operator Far EasTone Telecommunications[C].   The distributed series include Dragon Ball, Naruto, Death Note, One Piece, Boys Over Flowers, Dr. Slump and Happy Mania. Bitway provides an integrated viewer application for Taiwanese cellphone users, and it displays the content… Continue reading Taiwan’s Far EasTone Starts Distributing Japanese Manga For Cellphone Users