YouRoom, Gemediar & Cacoo Demos at AntennaAsia Fukuoka

On Thursday night, AntennaAsia kicked off a 5-day tech event marathon in Fukuoka, followed by Energy Informatic and AIP Cloud 3DAYS this weekend. AntennaAsia vol. 1 showcased two Fukuoka startups and one from Tokyo. YouRoom First up, Yoshihito Kuranuki (@kuranuki) from SonicGarden demoed YouRoom, a discussion/communication tool aimed for project teams and private groups. YouRoom’s… Continue reading YouRoom, Gemediar & Cacoo Demos at AntennaAsia Fukuoka

Evernote CEO: A Half Of The Third Party Developers Are Japanese

Silicon valley-based tech start-up Evernote, which has introduced services for note-taking and archiving for PCs and smartphone devices, announced new partnerships with seven Japanese companies on Wednesday. Evernote CEO Phil Libin is now visiting Japan, and he says, “Our Japanese users share almost 18% of our total user accounts, which is the second place in… Continue reading Evernote CEO: A Half Of The Third Party Developers Are Japanese

Connection Search: Facebook Japan And Recruit Launch Job Service For College Grads

Facebook has over 500 million members worldwide, but only 1.4 million of these live in Japan. The company established a subsidiary in Tokyo earlier this year, localized its site in 2008, and released a special version optimized for Japanese cell phones a few weeks back. And now it seems to be time to partner up… Continue reading Connection Search: Facebook Japan And Recruit Launch Job Service For College Grads

Gree Now Allows iPhone/Softbank Users To Register

Japan’s largest social networking service Gree today announced [J] that their recently released iPhone version now added a “registration” feature today on September 30th. On Gree iPhone version website, which started as Beta in August, now you can become a member of Gree network. Unfortunately, it does not mean that iPhone users in other countries… Continue reading Gree Now Allows iPhone/Softbank Users To Register

Earthquake Warning For Japanese Cellphone Works Well

In Eastern Japan, around 5 p.m. on 29th (Japan Standard Time), massive number of people in office and home got different than usual sound on their cellphones. It was one of the latest function on Japanese feature phone, Earthquake Early Warning (EEW) system. The earthquake itself, which happened in Fukushima prefecture, northern Japan, recorded 5.8-magnitude,… Continue reading Earthquake Warning For Japanese Cellphone Works Well

be amie: Social Network Starts Off With 5,500 Actresses And Models

What can you do when you establish a new social network in Japan but want to distinguish yourself from Mixi, the current No. 1 (21 million members)? Answer: You start off by pre-populating it with a total of 5,500 actresses and models. That’s what Isao and Oscar Promotion (one of Japan’s biggest artist agencies), the… Continue reading be amie: Social Network Starts Off With 5,500 Actresses And Models

Yahoo! Mobage In Abeyance By User Account Trouble

Yahoo! Mobage [J], a pretty huge joint business by two giants, Japan’s largest website Yahoo! Japan and one of Japanese biggest social networking service Mobage Town by DeNA, which had launched on 21st September as a beta, was surceased because there were troubles that some users saw another users’ account when logged in. The Yahoo!… Continue reading Yahoo! Mobage In Abeyance By User Account Trouble

Part Time Jobs Site Baitoru.com Introduces Video Resume

Baitoru.com is a Japanese jobs site which is specialized for part time jobs listing. Recently they added a new feature on which job-seekers can send a video pitch to companies. You can send your self-taking job interview movie from your cellphone or PC, if the employer’s job post has any of these requests: decide hiring… Continue reading Part Time Jobs Site Baitoru.com Introduces Video Resume

Toshiba Releases New Freezer Which Name Is Vegeta

Toshiba announced that on October 16th they would sell a new series of freezer, which is named Vegeta. The Vegeta can freeze fresh vegetables as are. Usually, vegetables are not well frozen because refrigeration causes cellular destruction. This Vegeta’s enhanced precision temperature control chills vegetable with longer time. By chilling raw vegetables, you can save… Continue reading Toshiba Releases New Freezer Which Name Is Vegeta