Keio Bus Lines Trial WiFi Coach
Just in time for Ski season, take a comfy Keio coach to Nagano – surfing Free WiFi all the way.. while the trial lasts!
Year: 2009
Google Adds Walking Maps
The new walking route guide maps are now live for iPhone and Android handsets in Japan
Grand Prix Mobile Special Event
au by KDDI is running a special mobile campaign for 100 lucky winners to see Tomokazu Sugita perform live!
Hitachi Acquires Assets from Nortel
Nortel concludes $10-million sale of its next-generation packet core network components business to Hitachi.
Overview of WiMax in Japan
Everything you ever needed to know about WiMax in Japan – via UQ Communications.
Ameba Launches Entertainer Mobile
Cyber Agent rolls a new mobile mini-blogging service using Twitter functions with Japanese celebrity’s featured.
Google Starts Promoting QR Codes
We stumbled across this little gem and had to pass along – seems that Google is getting all jiggly with the made-in-Japan QR Code tech. now finally. We found it at least somewhat ‘interesting’ they opted to use the iPhone – instead of Android – handset for the promo video. We paused the u-Tube clip embedded below and tried a few scans which returned link addys – mostly the same one – loaded site pages, on our Jpn handset, that were basically useless.
Japan Mobile SNS Traffic Doubles
DeNA’s MobagaTown – Mobile SNS – claims 32B PV’s in Nov. almost double the 17B in Sept. [JPN] http://bit.ly/6rqUP6
Japan Mobile Youth Survey
Tokyo elementary school research shows 70% of six-graders have mobile phone [JPN] http://bit.ly/4GfENL
Mobile Media Broadcast on VHF Spectrum
Next generation One Seg – Digital Television Broadcast in Japan – plans going forward [JPN] http://bit.ly/7EGJ0R