Softbank snubbed in Japanese 3G allocation

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Softbank to buy Japan Telecom from
Ripplewood for 3.0 bln dlrsJapanese
Internet investor Softbank Corp. said i

Softbank to buy Japan Telecom from
Ripplewood for 3.0 bln dlrsJapanese
Internet investor Softbank Corp. said i 05/27/2004 12:23 PM
Servihoo.com May 27 2004 3:20PM GMT

Phipps Snubbed?

Phipps Snubbed? 03/13/2003 10:14 AM

Scoble reports that Simon Phipps is feeling persecuted.  I saw the Phipps post, too, but couldn't decide what to make of it.  I've had Phipps direct similar allegations at me, in my opinion quite unfairly, so I hesitate to judge this latest tizzy without hearing from any of the others involved.

On the other hand, maybe Phipps wasn't so unfair with me.  The "how evil are you?" test tells me:

How evil are you?

 

eBay is most trusted company for privacy
in the US, while Google is snubbed

eBay is most trusted company for privacy
in the US, while Google is snubbed 06/11/2004 03:56 PM
You may not be able to sell your soul at eBay, but that's not the only reason some consumers feel the company has their best interests at heart. Consumers have voted the company most trusted for privacy in the United States.

Other News: Reseller Allocation Problems

Other News: Reseller Allocation Problems 12/22/2004 01:56 AM
Apple continues to ship products to consumers that third-party resellers can't obtain.

Memory Allocation Checker 0.1.4 (Stable)

Memory Allocation Checker 0.1.4 (Stable) 07/18/2004 12:52 AM
Memory Allocation Checker

Homepage Real Estate Allocation

Homepage Real Estate Allocation 02/10/2003 01:08 PM

The Need For A More Complete Spectrum
Allocation Policy

The Need For A More Complete Spectrum
Allocation Policy 04/26/2004 04:07 PM
The arguments over licensed vs. unlicensed wireless spectrum often seems quite boring even to those within the wireless industry. However, there are some very important decisions to be made. While we don't think that (as some have advocated) we can simply get rid of the FCC and open up spectrum to everyone, it still seems that today's gradual adjustments on spectrum allocation may be problematic as well. So far, it still doesn't appear that the FCC has a real strategic plan for how to deal with spectrum questions - and there are plenty of questions. What's becoming clear is that current spectrum allocation has been quite inefficient - and we're now somewhat tied down by legacy allocation agreements (such as those that give broadcast TV a ridiculous amount of spectrum). As the article here states: "I'd like to see the discussion move from an exploration of how to make unlicensed devices such as wireless and municipal networking radios fit into leftover cracks of spectrum to a debate over whether and when we should more aggressively reallocate spectrum." That, rather than focusing on dribbling out bits and pieces of spectrum, seems a lot more likely to spur real wireless broadband adoption - as well as other uses of the spectrum that we can't even imagine today.

Iraqi Peace Mission Snubbed by Rebel
Cleric Sadr

Iraqi Peace Mission Snubbed by Rebel
Cleric Sadr 08/17/2004 09:11 PM
Reuters via Wired News Aug 18 2004 1:46AM GMT

Only man in Kyoto permitted to cut
geisha hair snubbed for blabbing sexy
secrets on TV

Only man in Kyoto permitted to cut
geisha hair snubbed for blabbing sexy
secrets on TV 08/17/2004 07:36 PM
The Geisha Stylist Who Let His Hair Down

washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A6563-2004Aug16.html
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Optimising Capital Allocation and
Management in Light of the Practical
Implementation of Basel II

Optimising Capital Allocation and
Management in Light of the Practical
Implementation of Basel II 11/17/2003 03:11 PM
marcus evans Nov 17 2003 1:14PM ET

Third Channel Communications LLC
Announces New Proprietary Media Asset
Allocation Decision Support Tool

Third Channel Communications LLC
Announces New Proprietary Media Asset
Allocation Decision Support Tool 06/17/2005 03:27 PM
The first channel was TV, the second channel was the Internet, the THIRD CHANNEL is the cell phone. [PRWEB Jun 14, 2005]

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters)

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media (Reuters) 04/11/2004 12:20 AM
Reuters - Three Japanese civilians kidnapped in Iraq were safe near Falluja on Sunday, Japanese TV said. Government officials could not confirm the report.

Softbank Testing New 3G Standard

Softbank Testing New 3G Standard 08/27/2004 01:35 PM
Wireless Watch Japan Aug 27 2004 12:21PM GMT

Softbank Blocked from 3G Spectrum

Softbank Blocked from 3G Spectrum 09/06/2004 11:22 PM
Wireless Watch Japan Sep 7 2004 2:50AM GMT

Softbank Apllies For 3G License

Softbank Apllies For 3G License 12/05/2003 06:42 AM
3G Dec 5 2003 5:34AM ET

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media

Japanese Hostages Safe in Iraq -
Japanese Media 04/11/2004 06:50 AM
Reuters via Wired News Apr 11 2004 10:50AM GMT

CJ Internet Ties Deal with Softbank

CJ Internet Ties Deal with Softbank 09/13/2004 06:49 AM
Digital Chosun Sep 13 2004 10:59AM GMT

Softbank customers sue over data leak

Softbank customers sue over data leak 05/17/2004 10:24 AM
Compensation offer inadequate

Softbank mulls Japan Telecom acquisition

Softbank mulls Japan Telecom acquisition 05/26/2004 05:56 AM
Broadband expansion plan

Two arrested in Softbank data leak probe

Two arrested in Softbank data leak probe 06/01/2004 05:40 AM
Suspected extortionists get collars felt

Softbank protests Japan's 3G mobile
policy

Softbank protests Japan's 3G mobile
policy 09/06/2004 08:00 PM
Sydney Morning Herald Sep 6 2004 11:49PM GMT

"Softbank mulls Japan Telecom
acquisition"

"Softbank mulls Japan Telecom
acquisition" 05/27/2004 03:23 PM

Softbank to Expand Wi-Fi Access, Roaming
(Reuters)

Softbank to Expand Wi-Fi Access, Roaming
(Reuters) 06/30/2004 09:42 AM
Reuters - Customers of Yahoo BB, Japan's largest high-speed Internet provider, will soon be able to surf the Web at over 15,000 wireless Internet access points in 42 countries including Japan.

Softbank Mulling Buyout of Japan Telecom

Softbank Mulling Buyout of Japan Telecom 05/25/2004 12:38 AM
San Jose Mercury News May 25 2004 4:29AM GMT

Japan Hot Stocks-NTT DoCoMo, Yamaha
Motor, Softbank

Japan Hot Stocks-NTT DoCoMo, Yamaha
Motor, Softbank 02/12/2004 10:19 PM
Forbes Feb 13 2004 1:52AM GMT

Softbank protests Japan's 3G cell phone
market policy (AFP)

Softbank protests Japan's 3G cell phone
market policy (AFP) 09/06/2004 09:20 AM
AFP - Softbank Corp., Japan's largest Internet provider, complained that its plan to offer a new mobile phone service could be thwarted by the government's refusal to provide the necessary bandwidth.

Softbank protests Japan's 3G cell phone
market policy

Softbank protests Japan's 3G cell phone
market policy 09/06/2004 12:34 PM
AFP via Yahoo! Sep 6 2004 3:52PM GMT

Nikkei edges down by midday; Yahoo
Japan, Softbank fall

Nikkei edges down by midday; Yahoo
Japan, Softbank fall 07/07/2004 10:56 PM
Investors Business Daily Jul 8 2004 3:21AM GMT

No sex please -- we're Japanese

No sex please -- we're Japanese 06/04/2004 10:46 AM
USA Today story on statistics published in a popular Japanese news magazine that point to an acute shagging deficiency throughout the country.

Only in Japan would a popular weekly newsmagazine deem it necessary to exhort the nation's youth to abstain from sexual abstinence: "Young people, don't hate sex," AERA magazine pleaded last month in a report detailing a precarious drop in sales of condoms and in business at Japan's rent-by-the-hour "love hotels."

More and more Japanese men and women are finding relationships too messy, tiring and potentially humiliating to bother with anymore. "They don't want a complicated life," says Sakai, who has written a controversial bestseller, Cry of the Losing Dogs, on the plight of unmarried Japanese thirtysomething women like herself.(...)

AERA reports that condom shipments are down 40% since 1993 (probably in part because Japan finally legalized birth-control pills in 1999) and love-hotel check-ins are off at least 20% over the past five years. What's more, an increasing number of those visiting love hotels aren't there for romance, AERA says; they've found that love hotels offer the cheapest access to karaoke machines and video games.

Link. Hope this has nothing to do with the butter dog trend recently reported by Fleshbot. Or, god forbid, her .(Thanks, Invisible Cowgirl).

Peculiar Japanese

Peculiar Japanese 12/19/2004 03:06 PM

I just got back to Japan after a few weeks abroad. It's the longest trip away from Japan that I've taken in awhile. When I was in the waiting area before boarding the plane, which was mostly Japanese, I noticed that the Japanese people seemed peculiar. I remember feeling this in the past after long trips. It's like suddenly I'm aware of weird Japanese body language, fashion, behaviors and facial expressions. It made me self-conscious too. I'm sure this is a pretty common phenomenon, but it was odd because it was disproportionately stronger compared to a one week trip away. Maybe it's because I was in Paris, South Africa, San Francisco and Boston before returning and the variety of cultures scrambled my cultural blinders. It was also strange reading the International Herald Tribune on China's anger over recent statements by Japanese about ramping up their military while watching the Japanese news in the plane talk about the same thing from their perspective. It was like having two cultural identities coexisting in my head. Somewhere over the arctic, both cultures seemed mighty peculiar.

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Japanese fashion

Japanese fashion 08/18/2004 06:16 PM

Xeni @ Boing Boing

What are the cool kids in Harajuku wearing?

Glad you asked. Link to an online photo gallery with street snapshots from Harajuku station in Tokyo. (Thanks, Todd!)

Pete sent me this picture. Marc, were you in Harajuku recently?

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Japanese Ice Cream

Japanese Ice Cream 07/07/2004 05:48 PM
OK, here's one of the reasons I love Japan: The way they have no inhibitions about what might go together with something else. How about Spinach Ice Cream? Or Seaweed Ice Cream? Or how about the Raw Horse Meat Ice Cream ("with chunks!")?

The Wackier World of Japanese Ice Cream

(Via Boing Boing. Of course, it's incredibly lame to refer to Boing Boing, because everybody reads it already, but... well. I just find this one interesting. :-)

I was suspected of being a Japanese spy

I was suspected of being a Japanese spy 06/10/2004 04:57 AM

Read Les Earnest's hillarious story about how his secret decoder ring got FBI on his tail when he was 12 years old.  That was in 1943 but it shows what can happen when paranoia grips a nation.  It could be now if you are related in anyway to the Middle East. [via Gaget opia via Espen Adersen].

Those Crazy Japanese...

Those Crazy Japanese... 01/06/2005 10:19 PM

You want some iMac fingernails?

What is Technorati (in Japanese)

What is Technorati (in Japanese) 12/22/2004 01:12 AM
Masahiko Satoh posts an extensive explanation of Technorati in Japanese for folks in Japan trying to understand better what the service does, and how it works. Thanks Masahiko!...

Japanese videophone

Japanese videophone 03/13/2003 12:53 PM

Amazing footage over at TokyoDV of the unreleased FOMA P2102V video cellphone. With the screen folded sideways it looks almost like a very small MiniDV camcorder.
Watch

English to Japanese, Japanese to English
PDA

English to Japanese, Japanese to English
PDA 03/06/2004 01:54 AM
I know what I am buying as soon as I am back in Japan. e-Navi is a new PDA that...

Japanese for Nerds (I)

Japanese for Nerds (I) 03/06/2004 01:55 AM
Japanese is the perfect language for nerds. There are just a bunch of standard interfaces to learn, which you string together like so many nested functor objects and voilą: fully-formed correct Japanese sentences!

Japanese popstar van-art

Japanese popstar van-art 07/26/2004 01:59 AM
This is a stunning gallery of fan-car art inspired by Japanese pop-star Ayumi Hamasaki. Link, Link to lots more Ayumi fan art (via MeFi)

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