Children Keitai

Here is some interesting data. Is a survey about Cellphone usage among children in Japan, before I read I thought that most young children, 7 to 10 years old, probably had cellphones and were, somehow, hard core users of services like mobile manga and tamagochi.
I got blown away with the result that shows that actually [...]

Hello Kitty Hospital

This is just a fast post, to show how frightening Hello Kitty is.
I just read in Reuters that in Taiwan there is a Hello Kitty themed maternity hospital, they hoping that the Japanese Icon would ease the stress of childbirth as well as boost business.
I believe that this is bit TOO [...]

Rocking Cellphones

Japan carries have a variety of mobile phones with accelerometers that let you play Chokkan (motion) games, send an email with a flick of your wrist, and use the phone physically to interact with applications. Recently, much has been made of using the onboard cameras to accomplish the same thing, and there are more and [...]

Blogging in japan

I’ve already said that Japan is the biggest reading country in the world (at least in proportion to its population) here is more Data that supports my allegations.
Japanese people are the biggest blogging community, according to two surveys something between 70% to 80% of the participants read blogs at least once [...]

The Crisis in Japan

Ok, just a quick post.
First, Japan it’s on a major crises.
The headline on Japan Probe was: Brazilian and Chinese laborers complain about working conditions in Japan. Yesterday me and my father in law were talking how some if his friends were in big trouble, they were fired and the company quickly took their apartment, [...]

Porn and the Internet

In a lecture about the boom of the internet at college, the biggest subject argued were the business models and the ways to make revenue, but nobody talked about porn.
I believe that porn is responsible for at least 30% of the internet usage growth , that is a lot. Some [...]