GPS
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Yupiteru's Speed Camera Detector Lei01 Is A Virtual Girl Talks You When Driving
In Japan, carrying speed-radar detectors on your car is not illegal. People try to avoid speeding tickets by knowing where radar gun is pointing you beforehand. And when some machine is a commodity, …
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Tokyo Architecture Navigator - Visit Tokyo's 1000 Notable Buildings With iPhone
“Tokyo Kenchiku Navi/Tokyo Architecture Navigator” is a new English/Japanese bilingual iOS app by real-estate information website R-Store, which covers about 1,000 Tokyo buildings …
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Mapion Offer's 1 Year Limited Term Overseas Play Location Game "World Magical Adventure"
Mapion [J] under sponsoring by NTT Docomo [J] has announced the release of the location based game “Sekai Magical Daiboken” [J] (World Magical Adventure), which allows Docomo users to …
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Japanese Location-Based Service Colopl Sells Special Card With Pro-Baseball Ticket
Colopl [J] is planning to implement the sports game watching “Pro Baseball! Colopl Series” [J] to link with their cell phone geo-location game “Koroni-na Seikatsu” (Colony Life). This …
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Yumemi To Develop American Location Game “MyTown” For Japan
Yumemi has announced that they are joining forces with Booyah, maker of the American location information social game “MyTown” which has over 4 million users. From now on, “MyTown” will be developed …
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KDDI Buys 5% Stake In GPS Game Provider Colopl For US$6.2 Million
Launched in Japan as early as 2005, “Colopl”, a simulation in which cell phone users manage a virtual colony, is probably one of the earliest geo-aware games out there. The namesake …
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Colopl Visualizes Where People Checking-In East Japan
Japanese Location based service Coropura(Colopl.jp) makes a map of east Japan to show where its users checked in the day before [J]. The hex displayed on the map means there were at least one check …
