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Luxury $10,000 USB Memory MNEMOSYNE

Solid Alliance announced its new concept USB memory with 1 million yen price tag, which is about $10,000 US dollars.

The 16GB Aluminium Mirror Finish USB memory is designed by Milan-based Italian Desig Studio Toshi Satoji Design, professionally hand-crafted by two Japanese manufacturers, can be made to order.

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You need to disassemble 6 parts to get the USB memory part inside.

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via Mycom Journal

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Solid Alliance Press Release [J]

Google Ad Shows SEO-Spammer Consultant

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When your mail have phrases around website marketing or search engine optmization, Japanese gmail users recently see interesting SEO consultant advertisement, which offers you an inexpensive link-building service, by 20,000 yen (US$200) per one satellite-site.

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The ad says "Site for inbound links by 20,000 yen" - "We create mass sites for inbound links by Movable Type. 20,000 yen per site.".

The advertiser's site does not have an postal address nor phone number, which Google usually requires advertisers to show.

Screening this kind of advertisers is not an easy task, as they try to pretend they are not what they are. But I personally feel that lots of lousy ads are displayed on Google Ads on Japanese pages/apps in compare with English ones on English pages.

In Japan's case, Google ad network is the No.2 behind Yahoo! Japan's, same as their search share, and recent economic crisis may be making big companies, conservative advertisers, think to cut No.2 network, if they ought to crunch budget. Google may lead reduced reproduction with crummy advertisers if they keep being generous to this kind of ads.

Now, Long Phone Conversation Makes You Fly For Free

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EC-Navi[J], a Shibuya-based tech venture running several web services such as price comparison site for e-commerce users, tied up with Japan's second largest mobile company KDDI, and plans to launch a nationwide cellphone service as an MVNO (mobile virtual network operator). The service will start on August 3rd, and it targets females in their 20s and 30s.

EC-Navi has an original point system allowing users to exchange a variety of the third-party's frequent customer program points to other program points or cash as you wish to have. Based on market research, the company learned that one of the most effective aspects when consumers choose a service was customer reward program. By developing a combination of the point exchange system and an MVNO platform provided by Inphonix[J], EC-Navi can provide potential users with a new cellphone subscription menu allowing to switch the points earned from your cellphone usage to your favorite frequent flyer mileage program.

EC-Navi installs an original application on the phone before it is shipped to customers, which leads them to the company's several web services.