Has Mobile Check-In Technology Finally Found its Place? (June 25, 2012)
From Investment Impact Blog Mobile check-in technology is a curious beast. Or, more specifically, it is a prying, snooping and interfering beast with night vision goggles, and a fantastic sense of direction. Like some kind of intrusive virtual paparazzi, it is ostensibly a privacy-eroding feature, setting the precedent for its image-based big brother Google Earth ...
Social Networking Company ImaHima Owns Patents for Mobile Check-In Technology (May 11, 2012)
From Envision IP Blog Social Networking Company ImaHima Owns Patents for Mobile Check-In Technology May 11, 2012 tags: check-in, mobile, patent, social networking Envision IP has been looking into the patent portfolio of a Japan-based company called ImaHima (http://www.imahima.com/en). In Japanese, ImaHima means “Are you free now?” The company owns patented technology that allows sharing ...
ImaHima Neeraj Jhanji interviewed on ITV Japan (October, 2007)
Neeraj Jhanji is the founder and CEO of ImaHima, which launched one of the world’s first mobile location-based community in 1999. Since then he has launched several other mobile and internet businesses in Japan including mobile AOL instant messenger, Habbo Hotel Japan, Atlassian Japan (enterprise collaboration software) and most recently PayMe (global konbini gateway), growing ...
ImaHima in Focus magazine (German) (June 1, 2006)
Wie es zwischen Menschen funkt Die Vorreiter der drahtlosen Gesellschaft orten, verabreden und vergnugen sich mit modernsten Mobiltechnologien (an excerpt) Die wahnsinnigen Ideen aus Helsinki haben Methode, dreht sich doch in der drahtlosen Gesellschaft alles um den Aufenthaltsort und die Eroberung des Raums. ?Wo bist du?” ist das Mantra der Mobilkommunikation: die meistgestellte Frage am ...
imaHima mentioned in Ericsson Telecom Report (April 24, 2002)
Telecom shapes the future city “We shape the things we build. Thereafter, they shape us.” – Winston Churchill Envisage cities and homes that work smarter, not harder. Envisage communications that are available through everything but a PC. And most importantly, envisage sustainable services hitting the market now that will involve everyone, regardless of background, interests or ...
ImaHima in Montag newspaper (translated from Swiss German) (March 11, 2002)
Where are your friends right now? Locate your friends and find people with common interests using your handy! ImaHima is a service imported from Japan that should make this possible in Switzerland. An Indian guy living in Tokyo has just been dumped by his girlfriend. He asks himself, “I wonder which of my friends are ...
ImaHima in Wall Street Journal (March 8, 2002)
Let Me Entertain You: With Mobile Phones, Users Can Get Their Kicks Wherever They Go The Wall Street Journal (Europe) Tuning In to Interactive Games, Movie Clips and Virtual Pets (an excerpt) About a century after their heyday, nickelodeons are making a comeback. Only now you don’t have to line up at the arcade. You ...