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If you look at the navigation systems in Japan, whether in cars or on mobile phones, it’s immediately obvious the rest of the world still has a long way to go to get to the level of ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: June 5, 2008 6:22 PM
Reuters reports that Softbank Mobile will be the carrier launching the 3G version of the iPhone in Japan before the end of the year.
A Softbank Mobile press release confirms this.
OK, it ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: June 4, 2008 4:03 PM
Every now and then you come across a mobile application that actually solves a pressing human need. SUGUSOCO ("right there" in Japanese) solves several at once. Let me give you a worst ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: January 29, 2008 6:57 PM
In a CNET Japan article reporting on the January 24 DoCoMo press conference published last Friday (source in Japanese), Kiyoyuki Tsujimura, Executive Vice President and Managing Director Products ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: January 28, 2008 12:18 PM
Disney Japan announced details of the upcoming March 1 launch of their so-called MVNO Disney Mobile on SoftBank Mobile’s network. According to the official company line, they are ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: January 24, 2008 3:59 PM
Rarely a day goes by at Infinita in the past few weeks without all sorts of investors, analysts and industry experts calling in asking for help figuring out just what on Earth is going on with the ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: January 23, 2008 12:52 PM
I wrote here a while back about J-Magic’s popular kaocheki service, which lets users send in a phone cam shot of their face, runs it through server-side visual recognition/image comparison ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: October 9, 2007 7:04 PM
Mobile free games/avatars/SNS smash hit site mobagetown is still going strong: In June 2007 mobagetown had 6.03 million users and generated almost 10.8 billion page impressions a month, contributing ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: July 31, 2007 6:20 PM
Even in Japan, mobile services that they become an instant hit with almost no promotion are rare. But some are so simple and so clever that they do. Just one month ago, content provider J-Magic, ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: June 1, 2007 12:49 PM
I came across an extremely useful product yesterday which comes in very handy when having coffee or dessert while fixing the car, mounting a RAID system or assembling IKEA furniture (which, ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: March 8, 2007 3:15 PM
According to an article published in the Nikkei yesterday, the number of Japanese mobile users with wallet phones (Osaifu Keitai) is expected to grow by 60% and reach 40 million within the next 12 ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: March 6, 2007 3:46 PM
Well…not really. Quite like the idea, ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: February 27, 2007 7:52 PM
I wonder how well-received this new flavour (note British spelling) from Camel would be in the UK…"nutty mental, ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: February 27, 2007 7:49 PM
Looking at Chikara-san’s DoCoMo bill this morning made all our jaws drop in perfect synch. It said:
"By using the pakehoudai option [a JPY 3,900 service plan option for unlimited usage ...
Posted by:Billich | Entry Date: February 27, 2007 7:08 PM
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