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 Japanese mobile phone culture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Many keitai have a range of additional capabilities, such as configurable databases, phone and address books, alarm clocks and stopwatches, games, daytimers, and varying degrees of image enhancement capabilities, such as the option to create borders, to create animations, and more.
Sony, working with NTT DoCoMo has been spearheading the mobile phone wallet technology, or as it’s commonly known 'FeliCa'.
Users can browse text-only Internet sites, and many Japanese sites have sub-sites designed especially for keitai users.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_cell_phone_culture   (1273 words)

  
 deseretnews.com Cell-phone cameras = mischief
Samsung, a leading maker of cell phones, is taking a low-tech approach — requiring employees and visitors to stick tape over the handset's camera lens.
It's still impossible to read an entire magazine page in a picture shot from a phone, even if the image is relayed to a personal computer.
Daisuke Okabe, professor of education and human sciences at Yokohama National University, says rules about mobile phones ideally should be created by the users themselves, rather than forced upon them.
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,510038658,00.html   (727 words)

  
 Jim Breen's Japanese Page
Japanese input work with the Kurumin distribution of Linux.
The Pacific Software Publishing company, is the publisher of several Japanese word processing and language learning software programs.
Kanjipad is a Japanese handwriting program for Unix with the GTK+ library.
http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/japanese.html   (10327 words)

  
 vB Easy Archive - Japanese Cell phone Market makes me Sick!
If I want to buy concert tickets or a CD, it is better to do that on my home computer or my work computer than on a cell phone.
4) I don't need to use my phone as a computer.
I have been a customer with them for 5 years now, and will remain so as long as they keep doing what they are doing, and that is merely being the most technologically advanced carrier in the US!
http://www.howardforums.com/archive/topic/59937-1.html   (4028 words)

  
 Why War? Keywords: Cell Phone
PCS is often mistakenly referred to as a different 2G technology.
The Little Engine That Could: How Linux is Inadvertently Poised to Remake the Telephone and Internet Markets (May 27, 2004)
Mobile phones often have a clock and a calculator and often one can play some games on them.
http://www.why-war.com/encyclopedia/objects/cell_phone   (2133 words)

  
 japanese cell phones - japanese cell phones Information
Thanks to Cell Phones, Japanese Students Swap E-Mail Even in Class.
Mobile phone / Handhelds reviews and specifications -...
English-Japanese-English software dictionaries and translation software for Pocket PC, Palm OS, Windows and Cell phones.
http://awesomephoneguide.info/japanese-cell-phones   (1018 words)

  
 Learn Japanese :: Home
Japanese is considered by many to be the most difficult language to learn.
However, since most students of Japanese arn't able to travel to Japan to study japanese, we are working hard to bring japan and its language to you.
learn-japanese.net provides the most comprehensive japanese language lessons on the web.
http://www.learn-japanese.net   (85 words)

  
 au japanese cell phone company
In the same way we have seen computers and cell phones reduced from suitcase...
Cel Phone Gaming in Japan - Gaming Age
Pretty standard feature phones, though the C2000 has the edge with a VGA camera (up...
http://www.just-cellphones-2005-2006.com/15/au-japanese-cell-phone-company.html   (401 words)

  
 History of Japan Arkansas Encyclopedia of Arkansas Arkansas History State of Arkansas
Japanese government planners are currently in a heated debate over how to cope with this problem.
China and Korea were first mostly influential, starting with the development of the Yayoi culture from around 300BC.
Hot springs are numerous and have been developed as resorts.
http://anythingarkansas.com/arkapedia/pedia/Japan   (3032 words)

  
 CNN Interactive Chat Transcript - Sam Greenfield on rules to govern our cell phone culture
Sam Greenfield: I think that with technology, you can have a much safer cell phone than you have now, much safer.
You have computers where you can talk and it types out what you're saying, so I'm hoping that one day you have a cell phone where you say, "Dial home, dial work," and that happens.
Sam Greenfield: But the human error is propagated by the use of the cell phone.
http://www.cnn.com/COMMUNITY/transcripts/2000/12/26/greenfield   (1509 words)

  
 BW Online July 26, 2004 Is Japanese Style Taking Over The World?
Juha Christensen, president of mobile and devices at software maker Macromedia Inc., always stops by Akihabara, an electronics district near Tokyo, on his business trips to Japan.
Japanese pop culture is now so mainstream in the U.S. that it has become big business.
Meanwhile, American kids who grew up playing Japanese video games are now expanding their interest to other Japanese-inspired products, or even creating their own.
http://www.businessweek.com/magazine/content/04_30/b3893091.htm   (1835 words)

  
 Japan Media Review -- A New Set of Social Rules for a Newly Wireless Society
In his article for TheFeature.com, Justin Hall writes: "Today most Weblogs are run by people chained to their computers.
Over half of their 13-plus million users upgraded to the new handset in a period of less than two years.
Youths, again, are the heaviest users of these services, particularly keitai e-mail, where they send text, graphics and photographs between mobile phones.
http://www.ojr.org/japan/wireless/1043770650.php   (1645 words)

  
 The Pop View - Cell Phone Culture
A new phenomenon has emerged: Internet access by mobile phone, known as I-mode.
Here's one from last September, about gaming company Bandai and NTT DoCoMo joining to deliver video games to cell phones.
In Japan, cell phones (known as keitai) have also become a part of the landscape.
http://www.thepopview.com/imode.html   (403 words)

  
 Culture of Japan - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Japanese is known to be related to the nearby Ryukyuan languages, forming the Japonic language family; an earlier theory that it is a language isolate related to no surviving tongues is a popular misconception.
The Japanese writing system is actually three or four writing systems used in tandem: kanji, which are logograms adopted from Chinese writing, and the two kana syllabaries, hiragana and katakana, which developed from kanji; the Latin alphabet, called romaji when used to write Japanese, is also common.
The Japanese writing system itself was developed from contact with Koreans knowledgeable of Chinese writing.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Culture_of_Japan   (1400 words)

  
 japanese culture 11552
Find vast and relevant web sites and information on japanese+culture at FrisGo.com
Japanese tutorial program which allows you to learn it by visiting famous tourist resorts in Japan.
You can also download its demo program from our site.
http://find.gotdns.com/japanese-culture:11552_results.html   (190 words)

  
 YOUTH CULTURE FACTS AND INFORMATION
Youth culture, may appear rebellious but may centre on conformity to an "in-group" as youth is a time of identity formation (see Erik_Erikson's stages of psychosocial development).
A youth subculture as such is recent, thought to start around the mid-20th_century, that is, after World_War_II, due to the economic, political, and educational changes.
Youth culture generally refers to the ways young people (adolescents and teenagers) differentiate themselves from the general culture of their community.
http://www.witwib.com/Youth_culture   (231 words)

  
 E-ASPAC
Wireless technology is revolutionizing communication and the way people are able to communicate with each other.
Wireless technology has not left a single country untouched, but its impact and penetration varies from the single digit to the triple digit.
In other words, the family was “sharing the phone conversation.” With the development of the cordless phone and then the keitai, transferred calls and shared conversations ceased, resulting in a decline in the parent’s involvement in their children’s phone calls and, by extension, their lives.
http://mcel.pacificu.edu/easpac/2005/nguyen.php3   (3703 words)

  
 Fashion, function meet in Japan cell-phone culture
Phone makers are also catching on to the personalisation trend, and are trying to move it beyond simple accessories to the phone itself.
Panasonic Mobile initially set the price of a faceplate at a modest 800 yen ($7.65), but scarce or premium versions designed by the company or others can go for more than $100 on the Internet.
"Unlike many other gadgets and the personal computer, the 'keitai' (mobile phone) is much more closely tied to a particular individual," said Mizuko Ito, a cultural anthropologist studying mobile phone use at Japan's Keio University.
http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=39816   (803 words)

  
 cell phone tower location, cell phone tower location info
packages time, the best cell phone packages to than...
that isn't possible, the device turns to cell phone tower triangulation to determine locations.
Call The 911+ Emergency Cell Phone is designed for...
http://eradiationprotection.com/phone/cellphonetowerlocation   (1392 words)

  
 cloudtravel: October 2003
Even as the Japanese continue in a decade-long economic funk, their consumerism supports an electronics industry that has a leg up on the US.
The the average Japanese cell phone technology, for instance, is 18 months ahead of ours.
I'm told the craze has now shifted and the massive SSAWS artificial mountain closed on September 30, 2002.
http://cloudtravel.typepad.com/cloudtravel/2003/10   (3634 words)

  
 Wired News: Cell-Phone Shushing Gets Creative
Across the country, the cell phone is on its way to becoming a pervasive and unremarkable medium, said Mizuko Ito, an anthropologist at the University of Southern California and Japan's Keio University who studies technology and issues pertaining to children and new media.
Ito studies cell-phone culture primarily in Japan, where she said some issues related to courteous use have been worked out.
According to U.S. census data, between 1993 and 2003 the number of cell-phone subscribers in the United States grew more than 300 percent, from 34 million to 159 million, so maybe it's no surprise that associated gripes have risen as well.
http://www.wired.com/news/wireless/0,1382,66310,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_2   (671 words)

  
 Japanese Cell Phone Accessories
heavy mobile phone use produces changes in cognitive function.
Think about the mobile phone you have and see how you can make it just a little more, well, you.
A state lawmaker hopes to expand on his success winning legislation banning motorists' use of cell phones without hand-held devices.
http://www.cheap-cell-phone-stuff.info/japanese-cell-phone-accessories.htm   (328 words)

  
 Wired News: Did This Musician 'Cell' Out?
During the concert, a small group of musicians, including Levin, will perform the phones by dialing them up with a specially designed, musical software instrument.
"The lack of tradition around (the cell phone) and also because it uses synthesized tones so acoustically makes it very limited.
Yet, although no sacred space has remained unsullied by the interruptions of mobile phone ring tones, there is no sacred space, either, which has been specifically devoted to their free expression."
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,46273,00.html   (682 words)

  
 Cell Phone Facts
Cell-Phone Information - Cell-Phone Information Website: Important Facts in Choosing and Using Cell Phones...
Cellular Phone Antennas and Human Health - addresses the issue of whether base station transmitter/antennas for cellular phones, PCS phones, and other types of portable transceivers are a risk to human health.
The Web site, Cell Phone Facts (http://www.fda.gov/cellphones/), provides information...
http://www.mobile-and-cell-phones.info/cell-phone-facts.html   (312 words)

  
 Cell Phones - Your source for Cell Phones & Accessories Online
Introduction to How Cell Phones Work The Cell Approach Cell Engineering Transmission Cell Phone Codes...
Research in Motion, the manufacturer of BlackBerry cell phones, is in a weak position since this week, after...
to us that CNET users are very vocal about which cell phones are the best...
http://www.inthenowtechnology.info/Cell-Free-Mobile-Phone-T   (706 words)

  
 Halfbakery: Cell Phone Headsets
It could even retract like a tape measure, so would only marginally affect the form factor of the phone.
This is light enough that it's not inconceivable to actually wear the entire thing on your head, like those goofy radio-headphones from the 70's.
Why use a spring clip for a cell phone, when duct tape is so plentiful????
http://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Cell_20Phone_20Headsets   (208 words)

  
 ZeD - Content Piece - Keitai: Japanese Cell Phone Culture
That's the case with the Japanese who are redefining personal communication through the fanatical use of cellular technology.
If you want to see what the North American personal communications landscape might look like in a few years, this is the place to do it.
Mobile phone culture has become such an integral part of every day life that it has its own name - keitai.
http://zed.cbc.ca/go.ZeD?POS=8&CONTENT_ID=52824&page=content   (143 words)

  
 SXSW 2002 - Japan Phone Story
Japanese people using them, especially on the train:
What could I do with my new phone?
http://www.links.net/share/speak/sxsw/2002-keitai   (26 words)

  
 What type of kogal are you? (it's a SelectSmart.com Fashion selector. Keywords: Fashion selectors recommend match ...
Kogals are known for wearing platform boots and microskirts, copious amounts of makeup, hair coloring (usually blond), artificial suntans, school uniforms, and designer accessories.
They are also Japan's most visible consumers of mobile phone technology (see Japanese cell phone culture).
They tend to live for shopping, and frequent upscale boutiques in trendy areas, most notably the Shibuya district of Tokyo.
http://selectsmart.com/FREE/select.php?client=kogal   (490 words)

  
 Automated Weblog Searching 9/11 Report Japanese Cell Phones Feedster Politics Free Lookout
Keitai-kunkun, on the other hand, is a device for cell-phones which emits smell when the phone gets an incoming call.
Vivisimo offers a specialized 9/11 Commission's Report cluster search-engine.
"Keitai denwa" (or just "keitai") is Japanese for "mobile phone".
http://blog.outer-court.com/archive/2004_07_23_index.html   (119 words)

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