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P2P: The Japanese Angle How the emerging P2P scene in Japan could mix with the country's ubiquitous mobile phones to create a pocket-pocket, person-to-person, impossible-to-monitor network. |
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Exploring the Possibilities of P2P Wireless This idea is under the radar at the moment. It won't be for long, and the implications are huge. |
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Freeing of the Press The Net is introducing new elements into Japan's mass media -- disclosure, diversity, personalization -- and threatening to transform the world's biggest newspaper audience into the biggest online-media one. |
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How It Works (PDF-formatted file, Acrobat 4.0 or later required) We draw out for you how: video can be delivered on demand over copper phone wires, US and Japanese stocks can be traded over a cellphone in Japan, and global expansion can save a cellular operator money. |
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DoCoMo's Java Jive-Talkin' i-Appli -- Java on i-mode -- is the coolest thing since, well, i-mode. For developers, though, its controlled rollout was a reminder of who's boss -- and how that boss likes to operate. |
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An Interface Designer Does Japan A US-based software usability consultant shares her impressions on how Japan interfaces with machines -- and vice versa. |
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What's Wrong With PHS? Enough with i-mode, already. PHS -- Japan's neglected mobile phone service -- is in many ways better. |
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Idees Fortes How about a fingerprint reader on the back of handsets for secure m-commerce? |
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People | ||
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Masayasu Ariyoshi After 10 years with Nomura Research Institute, he's heading up a product evaluation site "for the people, by the people, and of the people." |
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Statistics (PDF-formatted file, Acrobat 4.0 or later required) Japan's usage of media changes, the online content market begins to take off, and B2C gets a boost from mobile. |
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Japan Studies How Japan's aging society is perceived -- by the aged. |
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Bento-Box Infotech ipTrend sees a big market in wiring Japan's small-time shops. Simplicity, it knows, is key. |
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Less Share-Sharing A new accounting standard puts another dent in corporate cross- holdings -- the glue holding many Japanese keiretsu together. |
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Betting on B2B Cynomix is betting Japan's trading giants will adopt its system for automating Web-based B2B efforts -- assuming there are such efforts. |
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Charging into Japan eCharge thinks Japan's consumers will take to its Net-based payment system. Question is, will online merchants? |
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On Our Radar Screen This month: studybox and step.com. |
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Art Department How an art duo called exonemo lets you engage in minor acts of technological terrorism. |
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Blowfish Japanese shoppers are infatuated with clothes retailer UNI-QLO -- and prices alone don't explain it. |
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