A Journey to the Levant
Decided to write more about my life in Japan, travel, food, friends; once in a while will continue to write about Technology, but definitely will not be the focus.
I have many things I want to write, but I don’t feel like starting another Blog (too lazy to maintain).
Seems almost impossible, but today I will start my first trip to Mainland China. Have previously been to Hong Kong (twice) and Macao (once), but I am sure this is going to be a different experience.
My trip is to Nanjing (Nankin), in Chinese Characters it is 南京 , which means the southern Capital, which it was in the past. Since there are no daily direct flights to Nanjing, I’d have to connect through Shanghai (on my way) and Beijing (coming back), which makes the trip very long.
My twitter account (@telyas) is the best way to follow my updates and quick pictures I am taking with the blackberry, but I will do my best to update this Blog as well.
Google Suggest Quirks have been reported, blogged to death.
But what the hell, here is my part:
According to Google Suggest, Jews are Rich, Hated Liberals:
While Japanese are perverted, but it may be explained since the women are hot:
Bing.com added new map services, which has great “3D” photos (not just the flat satellite map). Finding it very useful, as sometimes Google’s Street View is too restrictive as taken from the street level.
As an example, see below Shibuya Crossings in Tokyo:
Yet another awful commercial from UQ WiMAX has arrived. This time, they outdid themselves, by using a cat which has a very successful Youtube channel.
See below UQ WiMAX Commercial, asking if the cat will manage to go into the box, then asking if your Laptop has WiMAX. (Did I mention this commercial is BAD?)
And a sample cat video from mugumogu channel:
Always surprising for me to find when a news site fails like this. At least the IT guy can redirect the top page to a friendlier message.
Can’t say NTT Docomo are doing a good job promoting the Android Phone, but at least they have a nice commercial.
Japanese comedian Gekidan Hitori demonstrates how easy it is to find information for a girlfriend who wants to go out to eat.
Took a well deserved day off Yesterday (Friday, 27th).
As always, you can access my Flickr page for more photos, but here is a sample:
I have been following Playing For Change on twitter and their website as I was quite taken by the music and the ideas.
I know Playing for Change also has a business/financial side, but I was quite shocked to see Daiwa Securities Ads using Playing For Change Video and music.
Finally, some figures on WiMAX adoption in Japan are available.
Number of subscribers: 21,700. That’s an average of about 7000 users per month since the official launch date. Quite sad, isn’t it?
The article continues to review the technology, laptops supporting the technology and the competition (Emobile), which came out with the 100 Yen Notebook campaign a few months before the official WiMAX launch.
UQ WiMAX did create a lot of hype around the WiMAX technology and the speed it supports, signed multiple MVNOs, but that was not enough to attract customers.
Yours truly decided not to use UQ WiMAX services, as my house was not covered , coverage around Tokyo is growing, but still cannot beat Emobile service.
UQ still plans to continue to deploy WiMAX around Japan, which means more investment in infrastructure and Base Stations. These are obviously bad news for KDDI and Intel (biggest investors in UQ) as well as for Mobile wiMAX technology.