Jean Snow [.net]

Category: Technology

  • The Wired Momus

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    Momus is now writing a bi-monthly column over at Wired News, and the first edition, “Reading Green Tea Leaves in Tokyo,” is now online. My first Wired column is online. It’s a piece called “Reading Green Tea Leaves in Tokyo” and it’s about how capitalism shows different faces in different places, how some of its…

  • Selling a Million

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    Looks like the Japan iTunes Music Store is off to a good start! Apple today announced that its iTunes Music Store in Japan has sold more than one million songs from since its launch four days ago. With over 90 percent of the songs priced at ¥150 per song, the iTunes Music Store in Japan…

  • Shibuya Apple Store

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    The Shibuya Apple Store is opening this Saturday! Go see if you can get one of the 1500 Apple tees they’ll be giving away.

  • Apple iTunes Music Store — At Last?

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    Macworld is reporting that invitations have been sent by Apple Japan to select journalists for a special music-related event to be held at 10am on August 4 at the Tokyo International Forum. Apple iTunes Music Store, anyone?

  • PSP Browsing

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    It’s been announced that Sony is finally releasing a web browser for the PSP (I was never able to get the WIPEOUT PURE hack to work), which you’ll get through a firmware update (2.0) to be released next week. I’m a bit weary about the update, since previous updates have disabled the PSP’s ability to…

  • The ATM Jackpot

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    I draw your attention to this BBC article about a Japanese bank that is now letting your try to win an exemption from usage fees through a quick game of slots. My question — the Ogaki Kyoritsu Bank? Never heard of it.

  • Moving On

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    You may have noticed that I’ve removed the Gizmodo box from my sidebar, and that’s because I’ve decided to stop my contributions there. You should definitely keep visiting the site for Japan-related tech-goodness though, especially since Jaime Manzone of Octopus Dropkick! (which seems to be down right now) is now going to be a regular…

  • TuneTalk

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    Glad I waited a bit for that iPod voice recorder — Belkin just announced the TuneTalk, which looks perfect (and is priced nicely). As far as that podcast idea I was having, I think it’s branching out into two different things. I think I’d like to have one that would be just raves/rants from the…