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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
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?
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.
Do you have an Android-based cellphone?
Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications announced its first Android-based cellphone XPERIA X10 worldwide on November 3, U.K. Time.
It has a 4-inch touch-sensitive screen (480 × 854 pixels), which is bigger than that of Apple's iPhone.
The XPERIA X10 is expected to hit Japan's market in the first half of next year, but it has not been decided yet which carrier will deal in it.
What kind of terrestrial digital broadcasting receiver do you have?
According to JEITA's announcement on October 22nd, 1,831,000 terrestrial digital broadcasting receivers that were shipped in Japan in September 2009 include devices as follows:
* Digital TV set 1,138,000 units
* External tuner 171,000
* STB for CATV 165,000
* DVD recorder with built-in tuner 101,000
* BD recorder with built-in tuner 233,000
* PC with built-in tuner 23,000
KDDI Corp. and NEC Corp. pulled up an undersea fiber-optic cable installed between Japan and the U.S. from the sea to the shore in front of the press in Chiba Prefecture, Japan on Sunday.
The cabling project Unity was launched by six companies including KDDI, Google, and four others in February 2008.
The cable installation has been conducted by NEC and U.S-based Tyco Telecommunications.
Japan Electronics and Information Technology Industries Association (JEITA) announced on October 22 that the number of terrestrial digital broadcasting receivers that were shipped in Japan in September 2009 reached 1,831,000.
The number is up 37.5% from the same month last year.
Have you ever been invited to an incense burning ceremony?
You would enjoy it in front of your PC if scents can be transmitted online.
Do you often buy groceries via the Internet?
MOS Food Services, Inc., Japan, Tokyo-based firm that operates its hamburger franchise chain MOS Burger, will open an Internet shop in Japan's online shopping mall giant Rakuten Ichiba (Market) on November 4.
Its Internet shop, the MOS Burger Online Shop, will deal in about ten items including domestic vegetables brick-and-mortar MOS Burger shops are using at the begging.
Kazuhiro Haraguchi, Minister of Internal Affairs and Communications, said Tuesday at the 57th national convention of the National Association of Commercial Broadcasters in Japan (NAB) that he is thinking of quitting referring to the committee of communications and broadcasting as Japan's equivalent of FCC.
The idea of establishing the committee originally arose from the DPJ's manifesto that claims the need for an administrative body addressing matters concerning communications and broadcasting that is independent from the government control.
Haraguchi added that the term of Japan's equivalent of FCC would make people confuse the committee with the U.S. FCC too much.
He emphasized that he is trying to create a stronghold for speech, broadcasting, and expression, rather than a regulatory body.
Yahoo! Japan announced Wednesday that it launched a website for demanding decriminalization of election campaigns on the Internet during an election period that day.
As of now, changing election-related content on a website of political parties or candidates during an election period is prohibited by the Public Officers Election Law in Japan.
The website is asking the visitors to sign for supporting the decriminalization.
Yahoo! Japan will conduct lobbying activities by using the signing result.