Articles on Privacy, Japan
Google fights controversy with cute in Japan - Sep 16, 2009
Blogs Some of you may remember a video I posted a few months ago, created by Google Japan to promote its Chrome browser. It's really a testament to how much faith Google ... Read story »Google Street View goes live in Australia, Japan - Aug 5, 2008
Crave Sydney, Australia now can be explored with Google Maps' Street View, shown with blue lines where available. Street View, the driver's eye view on Google Maps, made its debut in the ... Read story »Japan's use and misuse of new iPod nano camera - Sep 24, 2009
Blogs It has only been two weeks since Apple released their new fifth-generation iPod nano with video capture capabilities. And in that short time we've already seen some examples coming out of ... Read story »Singapore gets Google Street View, finally - Dec 2, 2009
Crave Screenshot of Esplanade Drive It's been a long wait, but Google's ground-level imagery feature Street View of Singapore is at last a go. According to Google, Singapore is the first ... Read story »Japan to prevent pandemics with GPS phones - Jun 10, 2009
Crave The iPhone 3G is one of the most popular GPS-enabled cell phones. Just recently, Softbank Mobile, Japan's biggest cell phone carrier, signed a deal with Aoyama Gakuin University to provide ... Read story »Google's historical maps point the way to shunned outcast villages - May 3, 2009
Blogs I just came across a fascinating post by the AP's Jay Alabaster, on how some historical maps on Google Earth may be used to discover the location of Japan's burakumin, a ... Read story »Group seeks blinders on Google Street View in Japan - Dec 22, 2008
Crave Google headquarters in Mountain View, Calif. Citing privacy concerns, a group of Japanese lawyers and professors have asked Google to shut down its Street View feature of Google Maps in ... Read story »Google Street View car spotted in Singapore - Oct 3, 2008
Crave For their privacy, we have blurred out the faces and license plates in this photo. Google will be doing the same. Take note, you heard it first from CNET Asia--Street View ... Read story »Windows 7 knows where you are - Nov 10, 2008
Crave Microsoft program manager Alec Berntson shows how Windows 7 allows programs to take advantage of location-based information, in this case the operating system's weather gadget. Windows 7 has a new ... Read story »Street View throws Japan for a loop - Aug 18, 2008
Crave A photo shoot in Japan, captured by Google Street View. Does Google know judo? Maybe. Google Street View has pulled a sutemi--a judo throw in which you launch yourself at the ... Read story »The SIM card wallet - Oct 5, 2007
Features We had a chat with Jerome Sion from Gemalto, who envisions the SIM card as being a critical part of contactless payment technology in mobile phones. Read story »DoCoMo unveils world's slimmest WCDMA clamshell - Jan 17, 2007
Crave Just when you thought the Ultra Edition 11.8 was as skinny as it gets, now DoCoMo has unveiled what seems to be even slimmer. Measuring just 11.4mm thick, the N703iµ (see ... Read story »NTT DoCoMo unveils new phones - Jan 17, 2007
Features Japanese mobile operator, NTT DoCoMo, recently announced its latest handset range, among them a Bravia TV-phone, Nintendo DS-like cellular as well as an "aroma" terminal. Read story »Why you should care about GPS in mobiles - Jan 30, 2007
Features GPS-powered mobile devices are common in Asia today but how much do users know about the service itself? David Meyer gives a quick heads-up. Read story »Jump to page: [1]
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