Although Apple’s digital publishing service iBookstore on iPad has been doing well in US, like other countries it is not really ready for Japanese iPad users. It is considered to take time to realize as local publishers are more conservative to collaborate. Sotftbank’s 100% subsidiary Viewn [J], which had been introduced by CEO Masayoshi Son,… Continue reading Softbank’s Online Magazines App Viewn Gets Bumbling Start
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DeNA Begins Free Games And Community On English iPhone/iPad
DeNA, which runs one of big three Japanese social networking Mobage-Town, today announced and immediately launched MiniNation and its games, their popular social games and its basement community in English on iPhone/iPad for oversea users. The games and MiniNation are only available “outside of Japan”. So it is not for their royal Japanese users but… Continue reading DeNA Begins Free Games And Community On English iPhone/iPad
iPhone 2009 Takes 4.9% Share In Japan
MM Research Institute Ltd. announced their research on Japanese cellphone shipment share in year 2009 [J]. Sharp, Panasonic Mobile, Fujitsu, NEC, Kyocera, Sony-Ericsson, Apple, Toshiba, Casio, LG and others 2008 market share by the same MM Research was here [J], Sharp, Panasonic Mobile, NEC, Fujitsu, Sony-Ericsson, Toshiba and others As always, English media like Bloomberg… Continue reading iPhone 2009 Takes 4.9% Share In Japan
Video Artists To Hold Japan’s First Festival Of Movie Clips Filmed With iPhone
Now we can easily capture every frame of every scene at any time at any place with the iPhone. A variety of the iPhone apps allow us to complete high-quality video clips including adding music and sound effects. Japan’s six video artists will have an event called “iPhone 3min Movie Festival[J]” this Saturday afternoon at… Continue reading Video Artists To Hold Japan’s First Festival Of Movie Clips Filmed With iPhone
Virtual Dating Game Love Plus Is Introduced For iPhone
Konami Digital Entertainment released virtual dating simulation game Love Plus[J] for the iPhone/iPod touch on Monday. There is a series of three apps corresponding to three heroines starring in the game, which are Love Plus iM (Aika Takamine), Love Plus iR (Rinko Kobayakawa) and Love Plus iN (Nene Anegasaki). Left: An composite picture demo using… Continue reading Virtual Dating Game Love Plus Is Introduced For iPhone
German E-Commerce Brands4Friends Gives Away Free iPhone Case In Shibuya, Tokyo
A Japanese popular gadget blogger @masakiishitani and others reported that Brands For Friends ran a advertisement campaign to let commuters take free iPhone case posted in metro station in Shibuya, one of the biggest terminal station in Tokyo this morning, about an hour ago. The twitter timeline tagged with #b4f shows that those iPhone case… Continue reading German E-Commerce Brands4Friends Gives Away Free iPhone Case In Shibuya, Tokyo
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
Ig-Nobel-Prized Dog Translator BowLingual Finally Hits iPhone In Summer
Real time speech translation is the hot topic in last few days because of Google’s speech-to-speech translation development news and our reported Japanese government experiment. However, translation among human languages seems far behind Canis language translation, you can tell if you are a native dog language speaker (unfortunately I am not). BowLingual, Dog-to-human language translator… Continue reading Ig-Nobel-Prized Dog Translator BowLingual Finally Hits iPhone In Summer
[UPDATE] NHK World TV iPhone app: English TV programs on Japan in your pocket
UPDATE: Over 3G, make sure to wait 30-60 seconds for the stream data to get cached. After that, you’ll notice a significant jump in picture and audio quality. Japan has a plethora of TV channels, but the biggest battleship is NHK [JP], the country’s national public broadcasting organization. NHK itself operates a number of different… Continue reading [UPDATE] NHK World TV iPhone app: English TV programs on Japan in your pocket