The Institute for Information and Communications Policy (IICP) under the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) reported on July 2 how many domestic blogs have been established.
The number of the Japan's domestic blogs established on Japanese-language blog service sites is about 16.9 million at the end of January 2008.
In terms of the blog articles, the number tops 1.35 billion and the amount of data is equivalent to 27 million books.
Sun July 13, 2008
Blog pages in Japan represent 27 million books
Tue June 24, 2008
Google Search on PSP
Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) Inc. announced June 16 that it will equip its Play Station Portable (PSP) with the Google Search features.
The features will be implemented in the latest PSP software, v4.00, and come with the icon on the Cross Media Bar (XMB).
Mon June 23, 2008
Attestation of delayed trains on keitai
East Japan Railway Company (JR East) said June 18 that it will start to post attestations of its delayed trains on the dedicated mobile website on June 27.
The attestations will be posted for delayed trains on the 18 lines around Tokyo, including the Tokyo Loop Line and the Chuo Line.
If the train is delayed 10 minutes or more from 7am to 9am, the attestation will be available on the site from past 9am of the day for free and deleted two days after.
Sun April 27, 2008
Twitter Japan has made a debut
Twitter Japan was launched on April 23.
It is the Japanese-localized version of Twitter.
Twitter Japan works with Twitter: the user ID is common to them and the positing on Twitter Japan is reflected on Twitter and vice versa.
Twitter Japan is the first version of Twitter that is based on the language other than English.
Fri April 18, 2008
Calendar shares information online
Rakuten, Inc. launched the online calendar service Rakuten Calendar on Moday.
The service allows the users to have both a private calendar and a public one on the dedicated Web site.
Rakuten is planning to associate the calendars with its online shopping mall and boost the sales.
Thu April 17, 2008
Microsoft provides 3-D map
Microsoft Corp. has released 3-D features on its Live Search Maps service site in Japan.
Japan is the first country that has got the features available in Asia.
The features employ a Web browser only, or without any other application software.
Mon April 14, 2008
Blog links up with map
The livedoor Blog Map features have been launched in the livedoor Blog service.
The map service features detect location-based information such as addresses, place names, degrees of longitude/latitude, and landmark names in the postings on the blog page and display the relevant map.
The service is available for free without any registrations.
