{"id":8580,"date":"2010-06-02T00:41:17","date_gmt":"2010-06-01T15:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/?p=8580"},"modified":"2010-06-02T00:41:17","modified_gmt":"2010-06-01T15:41:17","slug":"may-2010-japan-it-links-part-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/may-2010-japan-it-links-part-1\/","title":{"rendered":"May 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First half of May news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)<br \/>\nReferred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/togetter.com\/li\/18835\">Twitter Rescued A Guy Without Paper At Akihabara Toilet<\/a> covered by Japan Trend Shop [En] and Gizmodo [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/iskw226\/status\/13709264792\">Cellphone Journalist Atsushi Ishikawa reports that NTT Docomo did not catch the info Apple added SIM lock for Japan until two days before iPad announce date for Japan<\/a> &#8211; more precisely, not SIM lock but Docomo lock<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/national\/update\/0509\/SEB201005080064.html\">Cellphone Fishing Game Deliver The Real Fish To Your Home<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=wlNLZ3s9jcY\">Cellphone Magic propose<\/a> &#8211; maybe fake as it features <a href=\"http:\/\/jp.samsungmobile.com\/pc\/lineup\/940spec.html\">single cellphone model<\/a> too much<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jiji.co.jp\/jc\/c?g=ind_30&#038;k=2010051000593\">Docomo announced they gave up iPad support by knowing Softbank Mobile&#8217;s exclusive SIM locking policy<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/googlejapan.blogspot.com\/2010\/05\/google_10.html\">Google Japanese IME Became Open Source<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.asahi.com\/national\/update\/0407\/TKY201004060535.html\">Government-Carrier-Social Networks Collaborate To Share User&#8217;s Age To Check Minority Access<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.businessweek.com\/news\/2010-05-10\/docomo-abandons-plans-to-offer-ipad-wireless-service-in-japan.html\">Docomo&#8217;s painful retreat from iPad connection business<\/a> [En]<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/NTTPR\">NTT Official Twitter Account Starts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/chinarealtime\/2010\/05\/10\/the-ma-son-mutual-admiration-society\/\">Masayoshi Son and Jack Ma interview in English<\/a> via <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/gen\">@gen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/minhana.com\/flower_search\/\">NTT&#8217;s Flower Search App By Cellphone Camera<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rei-frontier.jp\/lalacolle\/teaser\/\">Lalacolle &#8211; &#8220;iPhone&#8221; &#8220;Social&#8221; &#8220;Geolocation&#8221; &#8220;AR&#8221; Game<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/mixi.co.jp\/press\/2010\/0511\/2719\">Mixi Calendar Starts<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.yahoo.co.jp\/yj_pr_blog\/14568130.html\">Yahoo! Japan Releases Original iPhone Browser With Contents Filter For Kids<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.jiji.com\/jc\/c?g=pol_30&#038;k=2010051101094\">Website OK, Twitter No. Updates To Get A Green Light At During Upper Houser Election<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.vjumpbooks.com\/staffblog\/headlines.php?subaction=showfull&#038;id=1273464794&#038;archive=&#038;start_from=&#038;ucat=2&#038;\">Fantasy Sword Wii Controller Is Under Development By Hori<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/hatena.g.hatena.ne.jp\/hatenapress\/20100512\/1273631924\">Hatena&#8217;s Geolocation Service Hatena Koko Used For University Roll-Call<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/itpro.nikkeibp.co.jp\/article\/NEWS\/20100512\/347926\/\">Ruby Ramen<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rbbtoday.com\/article\/2010\/05\/11\/67551.html\">Image and Kayac Releases Social Underware Calendar On Mixi Appli<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/media\/story\/0,2000056023,20413301,00.htm\">Mixi Thinking To Launch Another App Platform<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/journal.mycom.co.jp\/news\/2010\/05\/13\/025\/index.html\">Real-Sized Evangelion Bust To Be Built Next Summer<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.nicovideo.jp\/niconews\/2010\/05\/007484.html\">Niconico Douga Becomes Black Inc. First Ever At 2Q<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.mobilehackerz.jp\/2010\/05\/blog-post_12.html\">Some Docomo Users Confirm Docomo Abandoned Carrier Check On Flat Data Plans.<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/release.nikkei.co.jp\/detail.cfm?relID=251153&#038;lindID=1\">CyberAgent America&#8217;s Comic Games Passes A Half Million Users, Ameba Pico 600,000 Users<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/japan.cnet.com\/news\/media\/story\/0,2000056023,20413382,00.htm\">NTT All Stars Introduces Single Sign On &#8220;NTT ID&#8221;<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/twitraq.userlocal.jp\/\">Twitter Access Analysis Twitraq By UserLocal<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wayohoo.com\/ipod\/news\/son-say-ipad-3g-sim-rock.html\">Masayoshi Son Tells iPad SIM Lock Is To Fight Against Unfair NTT<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/3gmobile.shop-pro.jp\/?pid=20342589\">40 iPhone 4 HD Sold At Ikebukuro Online Shop<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/markezine.jp\/article\/detail\/10328\">Digital Garage Takes In Charge Of Selling Ads On Twitter Japan<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog\/media, please let us know.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First half of May news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Twitter Rescued A Guy Without Paper At Akihabara Toilet covered by Japan Trend Shop [En] and Gizmodo [En] Cellphone Journalist Atsushi Ishikawa reports that NTT Docomo did not&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/may-2010-japan-it-links-part-1\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">May 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[17,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japan","category-news","entry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8580\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiajin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}