It goes without saying that if you don’t have a mobile presence in Japan, you don’t have a presence! Right now that’s step one for the folks at FB… Step two? I think the key is… in a word… Applications!!! Tons of applications… Easy to use, easy to apply facebook applications, localized and Japanified. As…
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…
People on some of the social sites in Japan have been claiming they’ve seen the Google Streetview car in Kyoto and Tokyo! Anybody else see this! They’ll definitely have to blur faces because it’s illegal to take someone’s picture in Japan without permission.
This according to an article in CNET Japan. There are three major mobile phone providers in Japan. AU KDDI, Docomo, and Softbank. Softbank is owned by Yahoo Japan. There were tons of rumors that the iPhone would come to Japan with Docomo. Softbank Mobile today announced that it would be releasing the iPhone within the…
Just today I’ve seen a commercial for “Google ‘ippatsu kensaku’” on Fujitsu cell phones about three times. Basically it’s the kind of search that automatically takes users to the top rated result for whatever they searched. The latest phone (the F906i) also features Google x Yoko-motion. Here’s a picture. Currently, most people in Japan have…
Thanks to the simple instructions here:Japan It Up! WordPress in Japanese and English I ws finally able to mix up Japanese and English on this blog. My other blog BigDaddyJapan uses a Japanese version of WordPress so mixing English and Japanese is no problem. Now both blogs can have bilingual elements so I’m pretty happy…
I reported before the tight relationship I think Google is developing with Japan’s mobile companies. More and more cell phones are using google as their default search. Spearheading this is AU which has tied it’s online email service directly to Gmail, currently offering 6GB of space. The new news states that all mail sent with…
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…
This Japanese tech news site) reports that Japan’s largest cell phone / mobile phone game site, called Moba-gee (moba for mobile and gee for game), has surpassed 10,000,000 members. Considering that Japan’s population was calculated as 127,767,994, it sounds like there are multiple memberships going on. I’m not sure how they are monetizing the site,…
I first saw this in the Google Mania blog here in Japan in this entry. April 7th is Astro Boy’s birthday so Google’s made themselves a nice Astro Boy Google Logo. A must see for fans of old school anime!
The headline reads “Group with Google and others building cross-Pacific Broadband cable”. The important point though is who the “others are” in this case. One “other” is Bharti Airtel Limited, an Indian integrated telecom services provider. Others are various asian communications and mobile products companies… however one of the group which calls itself “Unity”… is…
In the U.S., Google’s doing a lot of things geared toward the iPhone… in Japan Google seems to have a connection with KDDI AU for cell phones. AU uses Google Search, and its auone.jp email services (which I suspect uses imap) is powered by gmail. That’s why in a previous post (“The iPhone in Japan?“)…