I first saw this on the Nikkei Weekly ITPro News site. It seems that sony is hoping to sell a lot of product by allowing bloggers to write reviews, and use pictures of their products on their blogs.
They hope to take on 30,000 affiliate members in an effort to sell at least 2,000,000,000 yen worth of Sony products. They are also hoping to target bloggers using some of the instant blog sites such as livedoor, So-net, and Seesaa.
Today is a Japanese national holiday called Spring Day or “Vernal Equinox”. The Japanese name for it is Shumbun no Hi. It seems that Google Japan has gone with a nice theme that elicits images of Spring and Nature… using Eric Carle’s “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” as a theme for it’s logo. I have to…
Google-mania.net reports recent sightings of the Google Streetview car in Okinawa, as well as Hiroshima, Miyagi, Fukuoka, Aichi, Niigata, and Hokkaido. Various sources reported seeing the Google Streetview car in Naha, Okinawa, as well as Miyakojima. It waqs also reported roaming around Hiroshima City, Nagoya and Kita-Nagoya City in Aichi, Niigata City in Niigata, Ishimaki…
With text at 25% larger and easier to use menus for such things as “use the internet”, “email”, and “create a postcard”, Fujitsu is trying to tap into an estimated million person market for computers that would be easy for senior citizens to use. They plan to first put out about 2000 computers to test…
UPDATE: No surprise here that the Hatoyama Twitter Acct is a fake. Just one of those things campy enough that you wish they were true. I’ll leave the link and my initial article as it was. OK, I’m going to say first of all that it’s possible this is a fake account, but all I’ve…
The official Google blog recently featured a very cute video advertising Google Chrome which was made by the Google Japan team. I’ve embedded the video below for those of you who are interested… the interesting thing to me is that this video has been seen over two million times with its English language title on…
Japan’s business online newspaper Nikkei Net reports that the next generation of Nintendo DS game consoles will be equipt with cameras, including features which allow users to take pictures with the camera for use in various games. The new Nintendo will also have digital audio playback capabilities, and ways to import music from CDs and…