January 2010 Japan-IT Links (part 2)
Posted on February 10th, 2010 by Akky Akimoto
News on the latter half of January 2010 which we did not write as a dedicated article. Part 1 is here.
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- METI Lottery In Exchange For Used Cellphone Campaign Collaborates Hatsune Miku
- Chinese Guy In Saitama Arrested By Providing Proxy Servers For Chinese Gamers To Play (and earn by RMT) Japanese Online Game
- Harlequin Novels On Nintendo DS
- Kobe-based sports tabloid Daily Sports to start publishing e-edition.
- “Onsei Ninshiki Fusen ST”, iPhone App to Memo by speech-recognition
- Mekiki’s Patent Lawsuits Against Facebook Explained By American Lawfirm
- Sekai Camera’s Tonchi Dot and 5 companies Runs St. Valentein Day’s AR Event at Shibuya
- KDDI says 10 million cellphone sale this fiscal year will be difficult, at 3Q report
- Transcosmos Sells DART Business To Google, Lawsuit To Be Dissolved
- Twitter Japanese Mobile Site Adds Cellphone-mail-to-tweet function
- Nifty Lanches Cloud Service
- Sending Thousands of Origami Crane to Haiti Project On Mixi Causes controversy on Japanese web
- Over 200km Freekick Machine
- Kakaku.com launches Android app
- Two Fishing Boats In Tokyo Bay Starts To Tweet 1 2
- Mobage Open Platform begins, 92 apps by 40 companies at the launch day
- TV Tokyo’s Documentary Went Too Far On Taking Sony Walkman’s (one month) Takeover Against iPod
- Digital Garage Makes Another Investment To Twitter
- Dentsu purchases Innovation Interactive [English]
- University of Tokyo associate professor complained on Google Japan’s Non-Disclosure Agreement (NDA) applied to students during the recruitment
- Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications starts the internet contents self-rating experiment
- January Forbes Asia Cover Features Gree Yoshikazu Tanaka
- A blogger counts how many common apps on Mixi Appli and Mobage Appli platforms. 36 out of 86 Mobage Apps are also on Mixi
- CyberAgent CEO admitted (their Twitter Clone) Failed to investors, but he has not given up
- Softbank Continues Free iPhone 3GS Plan
- KDDI, Hakuhodo DY Media Partners and Hokkaido Broadcasting To Hold An AR Event At Sapporo Yukimatsuri
- Docomo President Shows Interest In iPad At 3Q Fiscal Report Meeting
- Thanko’s 80 ports USB Charger
- A new Japanese font Kazuraki fully-proportional in both writing directions
- Asahi writes about Twitter user reports from Stopped Shinkansen train
Please let us know if you think we should write details on any news above.
Akky Akimoto
Leader at Asiajin
@akky is one of the first pro-bloggers in Japan [J]. He also leads Asiajin, writes for The Japan Times, consults for some foreign companies interested in Japanese web market. (please inquire to akimoto on gmail.com).
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