At the 6th Fiber Optics EXPO in Tokyo, Japan, Mr. Tamada of Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications gave a speech about “Next generation broadband plan 2010”. He said, “The next generation broadband plan 2010 aims to grow Japan as a front runner who leads the world in the IT
MSN Japan began to offer MSN search tool bar for enterprises with the Windows desk top search tool for free. This desk top search searches more than 200 types of files in e-mails, documents, image files, music files, video files, PDF files, etc. For detail, see MSN Japan Enterprise page.
On December 27, Microsoft, Japan Telecom and Softbank BB announced the development of “Messenger Joint Communication Services” with their strategic partnership. This service ensures the security by combining the network infrastructure and the services such as VoIP, E-mail, internet access, group ware, instant messaging, and desktop. They plan to start
The Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Matsushita, Tokyo University and others to jointly develop the image search technology The electric, the communication and the media industry’s major companies, such as Matsushita Electric, NTT, and NHK, will jointly develop the search technology to retrieve the information from Internet, in cooperation
NTT Resonant (www.nttr.co.jp) has started the “Speech Assisted Search” text at goo lab (http://labs.goo.ne.jp). With this technology, a mobile user can speak the search word instead of typing it. In order to use this service, a user would access the page on goo lab web site from mobile phone, choose
The key players in Internet auction industry and intellectual property right organizations have instituted a new organization in Japan. This organization will share the problems and the information related to the intellectual property right violation on the Internet, and take action to prevent such violation goods from being sold/purchased online.
Since Yahoo Japan has switched to the page search instead of the directory search in October 3, the overall search page view has increased by 200mil (10%) from September. The directory search was decreased only by 20%. It seems that Japanese Yahoo search users are checking the directory search results
November 17, 2005 Google launched the Japanese version of Sitemaps beta. This is the same service started in US in June, and gives query stats, crawl stats, page analysis, and index stats. Japanese version of Google mobile sitemaps is now open, too.
According to the survey done by Internet.com (japan.internet.com) and Infoplant (www.info-plant.com), only 20% answered that they used websites to research the restaurants and/or hotels where they spent the last holiday seasons. Also, out of 300* survey participants, only 26 answered that they purchased holiday gifts online last year. * 300
According to the search engine user survey done by Japan.Internet.com and Infoplant, Yahoo! Japan is still the most popular search engine in Japan followed by Google Japan. However, the gap between the two has become less than 10% compared to 26% in 2004. The popular Google Japan’s function and services