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Japanese Video Chain Cashes in on Mobile Internet
Matthew Rothenberg writes: "CIO Insight has a case study that describes how Tokyo's Tsutaya video stores are tracking their users' shopping habits in real time via NTT DoCoMo's i-Mode wireless services and devices. 'We're not interested in merely renting videos to people,' Tsutaya founder Muneaki Masuda says. 'We're collecting lifestyle information, and the possibilities of that are, over time, enormous.'"
I guess I won't rent that copy of "Dude, Wheres my car."
Not everyone deserves a 320i
...will this mean less sales of bukake films or more?
They must not do a very good job because you can have late payments due in one store... in one side of town and then go to another... on the other side of town and they'll let you rent.
Not what I exactly call a national infrastructure of info. What I gather these people are wanting to do this nationally and thus profile a persons daily habits.
how companies in Japan work...
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Step one sell iMode phones.
Step two
Step three profit!
You Say: On the other hand, if that 90% of the people, instead of ignoring the flyers, punched the flyer-hander-outer in the nose and burned down the flyer-hander-outer's store, you'd see a sharp decline in flyer-hand-outism.
I say: Does this mean we can and should beat the living shit out of jehova's witnesses and other god loving preacher type monstrosities that come my home door? sounds like a great idea to me!