Paid tweet in Japan

Twitter will begin to implement the service paid model in Japan. Later the user can charge a premium to other Twitter users who want to read the tweet messages and access to uploaded images or video link.

Kenichi Sugi from COO DG Mobile said that a subsidiary of Digital Garage Twitter partners in Japan in Mobidec2009 conference recently. He said the application of the model that will start paying in January next year.

The plan, premium users can arrange for minor messages can still be freely accessible to anyone and can apply the money paid for important messages, like equipped with an external web address links, images, or video exclusive. Twitter users who are interested can pay a monthly subscription or pay each time access. Payment can be made by credit card, mobile wallet in the mobile service, or vouchers that are sold in retail outlets.

According to the information released by local media, tariffs varied between 100-1000 Yen. Twitter would take for 30 percent of each transaction which is paid. So far, the Japanese version of Twitter is the most promising services faster income for this Microblogging site. Special services in Japan are designed slightly different than the global version and has sold pages and banner ads at a rate between 5500-33000 U.S. dollars.

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Windows 8 released 2012

Commonly, Microsoft launches an OS every four years, but this schedule was thrown off kilter due to a number of delays in the launch of Vista which in turn slowed the release of Windows 7. We have known that Vista and Windows 7 has no success progress than previous OS – Windows XP.

Microsoft today has tried to move on their progress including software development (Office suite) and OS (Windows 7 updates and Windows 8 release). Image above shows you a time table of Microsoft products release from year to year. The unstable time to release new products from Microsoft might be caused by some competitors’ progress in releasing a new reliable OS and software such as Linux, Mac OS, Android, and even Google Chrome OS where most of them have Open Source platform.

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Nintendo DSi LL finally released

The new Nintendo DSi LL with wider screen has been released in Japan. As I wrote before, that this new game console will be available on the market by 2010 for US and Europe market, but for Japan it has been available now.

This new varian of Nintendo has 4.2 inches screen means 1.2 inches larger than previous Nintendo DSi Lite. Here is the comparison between DSi LL with its competitor Sony PSP 3000.


With the comparison above, you can choose which one the best for your hand to hold and to see. It is also hoped for next DS series will be integrated by 3G network to make it more reliable for all gamers.

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iPod Touch with camera will be coming soon

Apple plans to embed a camera and microphone to iPod Touch and make it quite same as iPhone 3GS without phone and SMS capability. Apple’s factories in China are already manufacturing iPod Touch models with integrated cameras and microphones but an Apple spokesman declined to comment more detail about it.

However, it is still a rumor and we cannot ensure it at least for two or three months later where Apple plans to give us more detail about the specification of this new iPod Touch. It means not only a song can be its part, but also capturing and voice would be a concern of next iPod series. Microphone and camera would enable the iPod Touch to understand voice commands, capture video and images, and work with a wider variety of programs in the App Store.

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Blackberry slider will be coming soon

Research in Motion (RIM) as Blackberry vendor plans to build their first slider-touch screen handheld in 2010. This new gadget has been labeled with the name “Pluto” and model number 9900. This handheld resembles a cross between the Storm2 and one of RIM’s non-touch QWERTY devices – Blackberry Onyx 9700.

Moreover, on this new device will there any significant change of WebKit browser for the BlackBerry which follows the company both buying a developer and, in recent weeks, recruiting a WebKit developer. It would replace RIM's aging proprietary web code with a modern foundation also shared by Apple, Google and Palm with support for current HTML standards. Lets see for few weeks later where more detail will be announced.

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Google Phone-is it real?

It would be a very interesting gossip to talk where Google plans to build its own Android device. Not only Operating System but all built up by Google from hardware to software, it means from top to bottom will be designed by Google. Actually, this rumor has spread up in the internet for long time but Google always clarify that they are not going to build any device or hardware, only focused on software development.

As known well, Apple has build its own device –iPhone 3G- where inside out is fully Apple embedded. Microsoft have also ever built its own handheld –Zune – was made by Toshiba, and Samsung just released its own OS named Bada. It’s normal issue when Google finally desire to build its own device.

The candidates of Google handheld builder might be a Taiwan or Korea manufacturer and an obvious choice is HTC who has been a major supplier of Android devices. LG and Samsung also have a chance to be a major manufacturer for Google device, however Samsung has known well have long relationship with Apple, so the most chanced Korea manufacturer is LG.

We are only wondering how and when this will come to the surface where now they might be working on this mysterious Google Phone in meantime and it supposed to be released in early 2010.

Google Image Swirl

Google Labs always work in progress to give you more applications with a great idea. After Script Converter, Google labs now work on Google Image Swirl where organizes image search results into groups and sub-groups, based on their visual and semantic similarity and presents them in an intuitive exploratory interface.

Google image search has been very useful tool for us to find more related images all around the world. Image Swirl expands the technology that powers Similar Images and Picasa Face Recognition and groups images based upon similar themes. Users will be presented with 12 different image themes to select from. Once a user chooses a theme and clicks the corresponding thumbnail, that group or cluster of images will swirl into view so that you can further explore that theme. The detail you can see the image below.


However, after try this new feature, the swirl feature more confusing us as a user to choose the right image related to keyword we submitted. Moreover, using image swirl, we got no more detail information about the image as conventional image search tool. Some users who tried this new tool also gave a negative feedback as quoted below-taken from Google Image Swirl Details and Feedbacks. However, it is still great idea but need more progress to make it perfect.

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