{"id":1206,"date":"2008-04-23T18:14:39","date_gmt":"2008-04-23T16:14:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/general\/foneras-and-ipod-touch-for-students-in-japan.html"},"modified":"2008-04-24T23:12:10","modified_gmt":"2008-04-24T21:12:10","slug":"foneras-and-ipod-touch-for-students-in-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1206","title":{"rendered":"Foneras and iPod Touch for students in Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/04\/ipodfonera.png\" alt=\"ipodfonera.png\" align=\"right\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fon.com\/jp\">FON Japan<\/a> and Seven Seas Techworks, a company that develops interactive web services and content delivery platforms, are collaborating to provide an educational solution called \u201c<em>Student Pass for iPod touch<\/em>\u201d to universities in Japan.<\/p>\n<p>Students will get an iPod Touch to access content and services like their class schedule, study materials, attendance management system.  They will also be able to watch videos of the classes they missed, study the materials they received and look for job offers on their iPod touch.  FON will take part in this project by providing <a href=\"https:\/\/shop.fon.com\/FonShop\/shop\/\">Foneras<\/a> to the students who will set the them up at home and use WiFi to receive contents and services from their university.<\/p>\n<p>Starting from June, as part of a first trial, \u201cStudent Pass for iPod touch\u201d and \u201cLa Fonera\u201d will be distributed to students attending Yamanashi University.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Here the first coverage from Japanese media:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.itmedia.co.jp\/enterprise\/articles\/0804\/23\/news103.html\">ITmedia<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/excite.co.jp\/News\/it\/20080423170500\/Itmedia_enterprise_20080423100.ht\">Excite<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/headlines.yahoo.co.jp\/hl?a=20080423-00000100-zdn_ep-sci\">Yahoo<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.livedoor.com\/article\/detail\/3611397\/\">Livedoor<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.biglobe.ne.jp\/it\/itm_080423_0176123951.html\">BIGLOBE<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.nifty.com\/cs\/technology\/systemdetail\/itmep-20080423100\/1.htm\">Nifty<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1206\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FON Japan and Seven Seas Techworks, a company that develops interactive web services and content delivery platforms, are collaborating to provide an educational solution called \u201cStudent Pass for iPod touch\u201d to universities in Japan. Students will get an iPod Touch to access content and services like their class schedule, study materials, attendance management system. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1206"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1206\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1206"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}