The experiment, which the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) will begin to conduct in fall this year, on prevention of pandemic by means of the system of GPS-enabled cellphone is slated to involve about 2,000 people in total in both an urban and a rural area in Japan.
The MIC is going to verify how accurate and cost-effective GPS features of cellphone and the system will work.
Mon May 18, 2009
GPS-enabled cellphone prevents pandemic? (2)--Two thousand monitors in experiment
Sun May 17, 2009
GPS-enabled cellphone prevents pandemic? (1)--MIC's experiment
This fall, the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) is expected to begin conducting an experiment on how practically GPS-enabled cellphones will work to prevent a pandemic.
The MIC considers whether features of GPS-enabled cellphone that can locate the user will help stop flu from spreading.
Sat May 16, 2009
Is Google getting more privacy-conscious? (2)--Setting up a call center
As for Street View, Google Japan Inc. has set up a call center.
The call center receives requests from users by phone about deletion of the image on the Street View site.
Fri May 15, 2009
Is Google getting more privacy-conscious? (1)--Lowering Street View camera
Google Japan Inc. said Wednesday that it will improve one of its location-based services, Street View, for more secured privacy.
Google Japan claims that it has blurred almost all the car license plates showing up in the existing images of Street View and is going to retake street images with the camera 40 cm lowered to 205 cm on the car.
Can you protect your privacy from Google?
Thu May 14, 2009
Cellphone decrypts an encrypted document
Fujitsu Ltd. announced Tuesday that it has pioneered a technique of decrypting an encrypted and printed document into the original plain text by using a cellphone equipped with a camera.
Fujitsu touts this is the world's first technique on cellphone.
Sun May 03, 2009
Virus assumes the name of NIID
The National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID), a research institute of the Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW), is warning that suspicious emails assuming its name are going the rounds.
The emails, which alert the recipient to the swine flu, are accompanied with a malicious program.
Fri March 13, 2009
NTT Plala to provide filtering on more platforms
NTT Plala Inc., one of Japan's ISPs, announced Tuesday that it will begin to provide its Internet filtering service Net Barrier Service for free for the users that rely on the Flet's ADSL platform.
The service filters out outbound access to the inappropriate websites based on their URL, unnecessary communications to block unauthorized inbound access, and behaviors arising from the Winny operations.
NTT Plala has been offering the service for free, which is now limited to the users that rely on the platforms such as Flet's Hikari.
The service working on Flet's ADSL is expected to start for the individual users on May 19 and for the business users in summer this year.
