Fri November 13, 2009

You do twitter to tweet on iPhone (2) -- Speech-to-text conversion

The Shabettah, a Twitter application for the iPhone that allows you to tweet by speaking to the iPhone, will first require the user to record her / his words she / he wants to tweet on her / his iPhone by speaking them to it within fifteen seconds.

The recorded words are instantly sent to a server for the Shabettah and converted to text.

The text will be immediately sent back and shown on her / his iPhone.

She / he can post the text as it is on the Twitter.

If the conversion has been incorrectly done, she / he can edit the text and post it.


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Thu November 12, 2009

You do twitter to tweet on iPhone (1) -- Just speak to iPhone

You can now tweet not by entering but by speaking words on the iPhone.

Tokyo, Japan-based speech recognition technology company Catalog Inc. released a Twitter application for the iPhone that allows you to tweet by speaking to the iPhone on Wednesday.

Its application, the Shabettah, is available from the App Store for free.

posted by sam at 00:00:38 JST on Thu November 12, 2009 | Comment(0) | TrackBack(0) | Web 2.0

Wed November 11, 2009

Internet supermarkets on the rise (1)

Have you ever purchased goods from an Internet supermarket?

As many as 42.6 percent of those who have ever purchased goods from Internet supermarkets used Ito-Yokado Co., Ltd.'s and 33.3 percent used AEON Co., Ltd.'s shopping website, according to results of a survey conducted during the first five days in October by Tokyo, Japan-based Internet survey company MyVoice Communications, Inc.

That is to say, Ito-Yokado was in the first place, followed by AEON, in terms of the number of online customers.


posted by sam at 00:00:22 JST on Wed November 11, 2009 | Comment(0) | TrackBack(0) | statistics

Tue November 10, 2009

Survival in digitization of TV in Japan (50) -- Sticker shows apartment's readiness for chideji [2]

“The sticker that indicates apartment's readiness for the reception of chideji, or the terrestrial digital TV broadcasting will be applied for by the owner or the management company of the apartment that wants to attract those who are looking for such an apartment,” says the “Support Center for TV Viewers” under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).

The center is also expected to use this sticker in order to efficiently do its activities for promotion of chideji, which targets apartments.


posted by sam at 00:00:52 JST on Tue November 10, 2009 | Comment(0) | TrackBack(0) | Terrestrial Digital TV Broadcasting

Mon November 09, 2009

Online-sent scent (40) -- Wine tasting


Beaujolais Nouveau will be released on November 19th this year.

Are you going to have it?

You would enjoy its aroma in front of your PC if scents can be transmitted online.

It doesn't matter whether you are a heavy drinker or not.


posted by sam at 00:16:26 JST on Mon November 09, 2009 | Comment(0) | TrackBack(0) | scent

Sun November 08, 2009

Survival in digitization of TV in Japan (49) -- Sticker shows apartment's readiness for chideji [1]

Is your apartment ready for reception of chideji, or the terrestrial digital TV broadcasting?

The “Support Center for TV Viewers” under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) announced on November 6 that it will deliver a sticker that indicates readiness for the reception to apartments which have had the receiving functionality in place from the end of this month for free.

However, what is the sticker for?


posted by sam at 00:02:19 JST on Sun November 08, 2009 | Comment(0) | TrackBack(0) | Terrestrial Digital TV Broadcasting

Sat November 07, 2009

Private brand goods from Amazon Japan

Do you often purchase goods at Amazon?

Amazon Japan announced Thursday that it began to sell goods of its global private brand Amazon Basic that day.

The Amazon Basic project was launched in the U.S. on September 2, 2009.

The project aims to provide high-quality goods at low price.

Under the brand name, Amazon Japans deals in eighteen items in the first stage, including DVD / CD media, network cables, and multimedia cables.

posted by sam at 00:04:16 JST on Sat November 07, 2009 | Comment(0) | TrackBack(0) | Web 2.0