Apart from scent today, would you like to retrieve a taste?
When and how will search engines develop a way to retrieve a taste, as well as a scent?
Mon August 31, 2009
Online-sent scent (32)--How about taste to retrieve?
Sun August 30, 2009
Yahoo! Japan buys out Overture
Yahoo Japan Corp. announced on August 28 that it will acquire its wholly owned subsidiary Overture K.K. on October 1.
Yahoo Japan aims to leverage its high brand visibility in order to expand the sales generated by the listing advertisement (search-linked advertisement) system Overture has developed.
Sat August 29, 2009
You need three seconds to boot Sharp's new netbook
SHARP Corp. announced Thursday that it will launch its new MID (mobile Internet device) NetWalker on September 25.
SHARP claims the NetWalker starts up in three seconds and runs for 10 hours.
It is A6-sized, weighs 409 g, has a touch-sensitive screen and B/G Wi-Fi features, and comes in a color choice of black, red, and white at a price of about ¥45,000.
Will you be satisfied with the mobile devise that operates on Ubuntu with an i.MX515 processor and has 512 megabytes of memory and a 4-gigabyte flash-memory drive?
Fri August 28, 2009
Train operation information is delivered to conductor's cellphone by e-mail
Keihan Electric Railway Co.,Ltd., following West Japan Railway Company (JR West), will on September 12 introduce a cellphone e-mail delivery system for its train conductors to provide the passengers on the train with operation information more accurately.
In the system, the conductors receive an e-mail from the operation management office and read it out to the passengers through a microphone; for example, when an accident takes place that will lead to delay in train operations.
As of now, they receive such information via radio communication, jot it down, and announce it to the passengers.
So the announcement tends to be inaccurate because of jotting-down in a noisy conductor room.
Thu August 27, 2009
SBM to launch netbook with built-in 3G module
There will emerge another choice of options for a road warrior like you.
Softbank Mobile (SBM) Corp. announced Tuesday that it will launch a netbook with built-in communication modules on September 1.
The netbook, IdeaPad S10, manufactured by Lenovo Japan, has communication modules embedded in it that feature W-CDMA, GSM, and B/G Wi-Fi.
The IdeaPad S10 runs Windows XP Home Edition SP3 with an Intel N270 Atom processor, has 1 gigabyte of memory, a 160-gigabyte hard-disk drive, and a 10.1-inch screen, measures 250x196x22-36 mm, and weighs 1.38 kg.
Wed August 26, 2009
Exit poll on Yahoo! Japan's site
Yahoo! Japan will on August 30 -- the election day for members of the House of Representatives -- establish a webpage on which its users can post the name of the political party they have voted.
Specifically, the “Exit Poll on the Internet” page, Which party have you voted?, will allow Yahoo! Japan's registered users to post the name of the political party the candidate they have voted in the single-seat constituency belongs to and the reason why they have voted the candidate.
The users' posts will be accepted from 8pm on August 30 to midnight on August 31 and shown on the map that pinpoints each of the single-seat constituencies.
Tue August 25, 2009
Website totally committed to Twitter (2)
The Twitter-dedicated website TwitterTweeter.jp provides not only Japan-specific information on Twitter but also overseas latest news, statistical data, and examples of corporate adoption regarding it in Japanese.
In addition, TwitterTweeter.jp is so novice-friendly as to show the procedures ranging from user registration to tweeting in detail.
The TwitterTweeter.jp operator Overtex Corp. will continue to improve the management of the website by conducting questionnaire surveys of the users from its own point of view.
Mon August 24, 2009
Online-sent scent (31)--How to send a scent
How would you send a scent to the Internet from a PC?
Would you use a thingy like a microphone?
Sun August 23, 2009
Running returns to be delivered to cellphone by e-mail
A mobile website operated by a subsidiary of NHK (Nippon Hoso Kokai: Japan Broadcasting Corp.) will provide an e-mail service that brings the cellphone users the running returns of the general election on August 30.
The website “NHK News & Sports” allows the cellphone users to register candidates they like to chase and receive an e-mail when the candidates are called winner by NHK on the election day.
Up to eight candidates per cellphone can be registered on the website by 7pm on August 30.
Sat August 22, 2009
Motorola and NEC vend LTE base station to KDDI
Motorola, Inc. and NEC Corp. announced separately on Thursday that they have been selected as vendor of KDDI Corp.'s LTE base station.
KDDI is planning to launch a commercial LTE service in 2012.
Motorola and NEC will collaborate to develop base stations and to carry out pilot tests for the launch.
Fri August 21, 2009
Survival in digitization of TV in Japan (40)--More HDTV channels get on Flet's
NTT Plala Inc. and I-Cast, Inc. announced Wednesday that they will renew the program channel line-up for their IPTV service Hikari TV in October and November, which is provided on the Flet's series FTTH platform of NTT East Corp. and NTT West Corp.
The renewed line-up includes seventeen HDTV programs that are fresh for the Hikari TV service, ten of which will be broadcast in hi-def for the first time ever in Japan such as AXN, FOX CRIME, and MTV.
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Thu August 20, 2009
Website totally committed to Twitter (1)
Japan, Osaka-based ICT company Overtex Corporation launched a Web site dedicated to providing information on the micro-blogging service Twitter on Monday.
The Web site, TwitterTweeter.jp, offers hot news about Twitter as well as business marketing approaches by use of Twitter and guidance for the beginners.
Wed August 19, 2009
Tezuka's manga on Android cellphone
Osamu TEZUKA's manga is now viewable on Android cellphone, as well as iPhone/iPod touch and Windows Mobile devices.
The manga is available from the Android Market for free and will be issued every Tuesday.
Tue August 18, 2009
Auction of airwaves under discussion in Japan (2)
In addition to the comparative judging system for airwaves allocation, which is conventionally controlled by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC), a usage fee system has been adopted since 1993 for airwaves used by TV/radio stations, mobile operators, and so on.
The amount of usage fee collected from them by the MIC is more than ¥60 billion a year.
The MIC insists that it brings more continuous income than an auction system.
Mon August 17, 2009
Online-sent scent (30)--Retrieve a scent
What scent would you like to retrieve?
For instance, you send a flower's scent to a search site and find the flower's name.
Sun August 16, 2009
Google Japan provides election-related information (3)--Candidates answer questions
Google Japan Inc. on August 11 released the House of Representatives candidates' answers to the questions that had been posted by the users on its website Qs & As for Future.
As of the release, thirty-two videos were on view in which the candidates are answering.
Google Japan received answers from candidates until August 15.
Sat August 15, 2009
Cutoff animation posted on the Net
Hatena Co., Ltd., Japan, Kyoto-based web services company, released its multilingual BBS (bulletin board system) website “Flipnote Hatena,” which the user can post cutoff animations from the Nintendo DSi, this week.
The website is now available in English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, and Spanish.
To post a cutoff animation, the user needs to create it on the Nintendo DSi by using the dedicated application “Flipnote Studio,” which he/she can get from the Nintendo DSi Shop on the Internet for free.
Fri August 14, 2009
Toshiba tries again even harder with Blu-ray
Toshiba Corp. announced Monday that it will launch Blu-ray-enabled devices within the year.
Blu-ray disc (BD) players and BD drive-equipped PCs are expected to come from Toshiba later this year.
Toshiba pulled the plug on HD-DVD last year and now is giving in to Blu-ray.
Thu August 13, 2009
One of ten women fall out of SNS--Survey result
Have you ever got burned out in an SNS?
The percentage of women who take part in SNSs (social network services) has increased 7.3 points from 28.3 percent in 2007 to 35.6 percent in 2009, according to results of a survey conducted by a Japan, Osaka-based catalog issuer in June.
Meanwhile, the survey result also shows that the percentage of women who used to take part in SNSs but have withdrew from membership has increased 7.3 points from 4.5 percent in 2007 to 11.8 percent in 2009.
Wed August 12, 2009
Auction of airwaves under discussion in Japan (1)
The idea of introducing an auction system for airwaves allocation is emerging in Japan.
In Japan, a comparative judging system has been implemented in which applicants are screened by the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC).
