Wednesday, August 20, 2003
http://www.japaninc.net/mag/comp/2000/06/jun00_unwired.html
Unwired
Japan Has the Future in Its Pocket
by Daniel Scuka
Send feedback to editors@japaninc.net
http://www.intermedia.uio.no/seminarer/mobilitet/torgersen.html
Unwired
Japan Has the Future in Its Pocket
by Daniel Scuka
Send feedback to editors@japaninc.net
http://www.intermedia.uio.no/seminarer/mobilitet/torgersen.html
Tuesday, August 19, 2003
Q&A With Bruce Rutledge, Editor of J@pan Inc Magazine by Tama Miyake http://www.ojr.org/japan/qa/1051155011.php Posted: 2003-04-23
Youth culture in Japan plays a big role. It's an old story that content providers, Web companies and fashion designers gather Shibuya kids together to gauge what the next hot products will be. In many ways, youth culture drives the market, and that's why so much of what has come out of Japan has been fun, colorful and trendy
Barry Wellman
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/index.html
High Tech Word of Mouth Maims Movies http://www.textually.org/
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/001414.htm
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-et-dropoff17aug17001423,1,249450.story?coll=la-headlines-technology"_blank
The LA Times looks at how word of mouth has long been an element in a film's success or failure. But bad buzz, fueled by text messaging and the internet has accelerated the pace of communication so much that Hollywood feels the reverberations at the box office almost immediately.
[...] Instant word of mouth, as a trend, probably traces back to 1998 in Japan with the release of "Ringu".
"The cerebral horror flick that inspired a U.S. remake — "The Ring," which was released here last fall — caused a sensation in Japan. And in a technology-forward country with lots of cell phones, instant word of mouth became the fuel that lighted that film's box office success. The power of instant feedback — good or bad — was immediately apparent.
The Onset of Connected Cameras
By Justin Hall, Aug 13 2003
https://www.thefeature.com/index.jsp?url=article.jsp?pageid=47795
TheFeature caught up with Ito over an IP phone connection from San Francisco to Tokyo. She pointed out some of the subtle ways that you can track Japan's reaction to mobile phones. After years of debate and discussion, rules for phone conduct have become more specific: instead of "please shut your phone off," signs and announcements now say, "Please don't talk into your phone." She envisions a similar timetable for sorting out connected camera issues: "It's going to take five years to create that combination of social and technological, public and private solutions."
Japan's Neglected Resource: Female Workers
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/international/asia/25JAPA.html?ex=1061352000&en=e878edd8ccff10e1&ei=5070
But it often seems that the Japanese would rather let their economy stagnate than send their women up the corporate ladder. Resistance to expanding women's professional roles remains high in a country where the economic status of women trails far behind that of women in other advanced economies.
"Japan is still a developing country in terms of gender equality," Mariko Bando, an aide to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, recently told reporters. This year the World Economic Forum ranked Japan 69th of 75 member nations in empowering its women.
Ms. Suzuki, who founded her own business, has been married for several years and has no children. She regards day care as just a small piece of what is needed in Japan. Men and women, she says, must rethink gender roles — an idea that she hesitantly concludes makes her a feminist.
"Men are really intimidated by professional women in Japan," she said. "But this is still a society where even when it looks like a woman has some authority, the men usually manage to stay on top."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/international/asia/24JAPA.html?ex=1061352000&en=726b0f206b08aadd&ei=5070
English-language skills in Japan, for example, rank along with North Korea's among the worst in Asia, making it difficult to attract international talent to its universities.
Youth culture in Japan plays a big role. It's an old story that content providers, Web companies and fashion designers gather Shibuya kids together to gauge what the next hot products will be. In many ways, youth culture drives the market, and that's why so much of what has come out of Japan has been fun, colorful and trendy
Barry Wellman
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~wellman/publications/index.html
High Tech Word of Mouth Maims Movies http://www.textually.org/
http://www.textually.org/textually/archives/001414.htm
http://www.latimes.com/technology/la-et-dropoff17aug17001423,1,249450.story?coll=la-headlines-technology"_blank
The LA Times looks at how word of mouth has long been an element in a film's success or failure. But bad buzz, fueled by text messaging and the internet has accelerated the pace of communication so much that Hollywood feels the reverberations at the box office almost immediately.
[...] Instant word of mouth, as a trend, probably traces back to 1998 in Japan with the release of "Ringu".
"The cerebral horror flick that inspired a U.S. remake — "The Ring," which was released here last fall — caused a sensation in Japan. And in a technology-forward country with lots of cell phones, instant word of mouth became the fuel that lighted that film's box office success. The power of instant feedback — good or bad — was immediately apparent.
The Onset of Connected Cameras
By Justin Hall, Aug 13 2003
https://www.thefeature.com/index.jsp?url=article.jsp?pageid=47795
TheFeature caught up with Ito over an IP phone connection from San Francisco to Tokyo. She pointed out some of the subtle ways that you can track Japan's reaction to mobile phones. After years of debate and discussion, rules for phone conduct have become more specific: instead of "please shut your phone off," signs and announcements now say, "Please don't talk into your phone." She envisions a similar timetable for sorting out connected camera issues: "It's going to take five years to create that combination of social and technological, public and private solutions."
Japan's Neglected Resource: Female Workers
By HOWARD W. FRENCH
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/25/international/asia/25JAPA.html?ex=1061352000&en=e878edd8ccff10e1&ei=5070
But it often seems that the Japanese would rather let their economy stagnate than send their women up the corporate ladder. Resistance to expanding women's professional roles remains high in a country where the economic status of women trails far behind that of women in other advanced economies.
"Japan is still a developing country in terms of gender equality," Mariko Bando, an aide to Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi, recently told reporters. This year the World Economic Forum ranked Japan 69th of 75 member nations in empowering its women.
Ms. Suzuki, who founded her own business, has been married for several years and has no children. She regards day care as just a small piece of what is needed in Japan. Men and women, she says, must rethink gender roles — an idea that she hesitantly concludes makes her a feminist.
"Men are really intimidated by professional women in Japan," she said. "But this is still a society where even when it looks like a woman has some authority, the men usually manage to stay on top."
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/07/24/international/asia/24JAPA.html?ex=1061352000&en=726b0f206b08aadd&ei=5070
English-language skills in Japan, for example, rank along with North Korea's among the worst in Asia, making it difficult to attract international talent to its universities.
Wednesday, August 06, 2003
She's Gotta Have It: Cell Phone By Elisa Batista
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58861,00.html
02:00 AM May. 16, 2003 PT
Being part of the "in" crowd for teens used to mean hanging out where the cool kids were -- the mall, the house party, the rave.
Now all they have to do is be within cell-phone range.
Story location: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,58861,00.html
02:00 AM May. 16, 2003 PT
Being part of the "in" crowd for teens used to mean hanging out where the cool kids were -- the mall, the house party, the rave.
Now all they have to do is be within cell-phone range.
From: Philip Sidel
To: "Marcela Christina Musgrove Ch."
Subject: Re: report
Hi Marcela,
I just think that the young girls make a better news story. The
male/female ratio has been covered in a number of publications, and the
60male/40female split seems to be extremely accurate.
You have to look at the entire population size to see this. With 70+
million mobile phone users, and 124+ million residents of Japan, just
because the young girls are driving the popular culture doesn't offset the
fact that they remain a small percentage of the overall Japanese
population. I believe I've recently read something to the effect that
nearly 95% of young people now own a mobile phone, but again, even with
such a high penetration rate (and lots of good information for stories in
the press), the rest of the population far outweighs their overall usage
numbers....Does that make sense?
>Hi there. I was reading your report for my research this summer and one of
>the
>main questions I had was about your claim that males were the majority of
>keitai users. So much of the press has been on teenage girls and the trends
>they set--would you say that the media is presenting a skewed view of the
>real
>users or is this just a difference in current marketing in Japan? Thanks
>
To: "Marcela Christina Musgrove Ch."
Subject: Re: report
Hi Marcela,
I just think that the young girls make a better news story. The
male/female ratio has been covered in a number of publications, and the
60male/40female split seems to be extremely accurate.
You have to look at the entire population size to see this. With 70+
million mobile phone users, and 124+ million residents of Japan, just
because the young girls are driving the popular culture doesn't offset the
fact that they remain a small percentage of the overall Japanese
population. I believe I've recently read something to the effect that
nearly 95% of young people now own a mobile phone, but again, even with
such a high penetration rate (and lots of good information for stories in
the press), the rest of the population far outweighs their overall usage
numbers....Does that make sense?
>Hi there. I was reading your report for my research this summer and one of
>the
>main questions I had was about your claim that males were the majority of
>keitai users. So much of the press has been on teenage girls and the trends
>they set--would you say that the media is presenting a skewed view of the
>real
>users or is this just a difference in current marketing in Japan? Thanks
>
Tuesday, August 05, 2003
Howard Rheingold on Mobile Virtual Communities
Friday, August 01, 2003
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 21:28:31 +0900 From: Gerhard Fasol
Reply-to: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: SMS vs email?
Juergen,
Maybe I mixed up the abbreviations, it seems that
iMS is for i-Mode Mail Service, however the main point
of what I said is still valid: i-mode phones have
two kinds of mail services, the ordinary imode mail
service and short mails.
You'll find details about iMS on DoCoMo's websites
for example here (Question/Answer No. 9):
http://www.docomo-tohoku.co.jp/text/imode/imd_qa2.html
of for Japanese-challenged readers you can find
iMS explained here:
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/p_s/i/qa.html#mail7
Gerhard
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Gerhard Fasol, PhD Eurotechnology Japan K. K.
fasol@eurotechnology.com http://www.eurotechnology.com/
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Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:23:32 +0200
From: Oliver Wittchow
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: SMS vs email?
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:10:46AM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> So is it possible, easy and cheap to keep your phone connected to the
> IMAP server all the time that it's on? If not, you still don't have what
> you get with e-mail on a Docomo phone.
even if you choose a GPRS tarif with some MB included for 5 or more
euro/month you'd probably still exceed the included data volume. this is
because operators charge on a "30 kb packet" base: the kb-counter will
restart each time a GPRS connection has to be newly established, for
example when you don't have network coverage for a while. though you may
only use a couple of bytes for checking email you will always be charged
for full a 30 kb packet again each time the connection has to be
re-established.
this at least applies for t-mobile, other operators may handle it in a
different way. their strange way of counting kilobytes makes GPRS
practically unusable for real always-on applications.
besides that none of the current phones allows to run the email client
always connected in the background. it may be possible with symbian however.
oliver
Reply-to: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: SMS vs email?
Juergen,
Maybe I mixed up the abbreviations, it seems that
iMS is for i-Mode Mail Service, however the main point
of what I said is still valid: i-mode phones have
two kinds of mail services, the ordinary imode mail
service and short mails.
You'll find details about iMS on DoCoMo's websites
for example here (Question/Answer No. 9):
http://www.docomo-tohoku.co.jp/text/imode/imd_qa2.html
of for Japanese-challenged readers you can find
iMS explained here:
http://www.nttdocomo.co.jp/english/p_s/i/qa.html#mail7
Gerhard
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Gerhard Fasol, PhD Eurotechnology Japan K. K.
fasol@eurotechnology.com http://www.eurotechnology.com/
---------------------------------------------------------------------
Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 15:23:32 +0200
From: Oliver Wittchow
To: keitai-l@appelsiini.net
Subject: (keitai-l) Re: SMS vs email?
On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 11:10:46AM +0900, Curt Sampson wrote:
> So is it possible, easy and cheap to keep your phone connected to the
> IMAP server all the time that it's on? If not, you still don't have what
> you get with e-mail on a Docomo phone.
even if you choose a GPRS tarif with some MB included for 5 or more
euro/month you'd probably still exceed the included data volume. this is
because operators charge on a "30 kb packet" base: the kb-counter will
restart each time a GPRS connection has to be newly established, for
example when you don't have network coverage for a while. though you may
only use a couple of bytes for checking email you will always be charged
for full a 30 kb packet again each time the connection has to be
re-established.
this at least applies for t-mobile, other operators may handle it in a
different way. their strange way of counting kilobytes makes GPRS
practically unusable for real always-on applications.
besides that none of the current phones allows to run the email client
always connected in the background. it may be possible with symbian however.
oliver
