Earlier this month Japan saw some coverage of disturbing news for publishers hoping to market their books and magazines to readers using iPhones and the like. Here’s one article (in Japanese) on the story. A five-minute translation/summary: iPad is out and is looking to be hugely popular. Publishers are very interested in this new channel [...]
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Poetry about town
A quick post to link to “The iPhone app that puts poetry at your fingertips.” Here’s what said application does for you: City Poems is the brainchild/retirement project of Victor Keegan, who was a Guardian journalist for 47 years. Keegan, himself a published poet, long ago recognised the potential relationship between poetry and technology—for many [...]
Apple cuts off online retailers
As reported by Nikkei, ITmedia, and other sites, Apple Japan has halted online sales of its hardware via retailers like Yodobashi and Bic Camera. In Yodobashi’s case, as detailed on the company’s info page on the situation, customers can still shop and place orders online, but must go to a retail outlet to pick up [...]
Et tu, Barack?
Yet another article on how computer technology will save us all from the tyranny of having humans in charge of the task of human communication. A BusinessWeek piece titled “White House Challenges Translation Industry to Innovate” tells the tale: Companies have combined the power of humans and computers to simultaneously double the speed of translation [...]
iPhone pricing announced
So the iPhone 3G pricing has been announced by the SoftBank folks. The basic breakdown for the representative plan described on that page: Handset price: ¥23,040 for 8GB, ¥34,560 for 16GB (paid in ¥960 or ¥1,440 monthly payments over the course of the two-year plan). Service price: ¥7,280 a month (including the ¥980 White Plan, [...]
