June 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
First half of (June) news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- Ustream Only Women Pro Wrestling Starts
- Softbank’s Viewn Starts With Server Trouble. Masayoshi Son Tweets They Are Adding 10 Times More Servers
- Viewn Stops, Decupling Servers Failed, Son Tweets
- Gree Moves Up To TSE First Section Next Week [pdf]
- NetRatings Points Out Twitter Usage Passed Over Mixi, Bigger In Japan Than In USA
- Online Designers Competition Service Do-Des
- Yahoo! Japan – Taobao Press Conference was on Ustream
- Rakuten Opens New Technology Research Centre In New York
- Shibuya Karaoke Place Becomes Ustream Studio
- Amazon Japan Thinking Japanese Books On Kindle Earliest In This Year
- Mixi Adds Photo Sharing Function
- Analysis of responses to PM Hatoyama’s resignation tweet.
- iPhone/Windows Mobile NetPrint App Released – You can get printed paper at near Seven Eleven
- Social Weather Information Gathering By Twitter – release
- Softbank Announces To Sell iPhone4
- NHK Develops Camera That Can See Through Obstacles [E]
- i-Mode’s Father Natsuno Thumbs Up On iPhone 4
- Blog TechWave Begins TechWave English
- METI Sets Up “Cool Japan Office” For Exporting Japanese Contents
- HootSuite CEO Said 38% Of Traffic Is From Japan
- Geolocation Game Colopl To Start Open Platform
- “Win a Lawsuit” iPad App
- Fujitsu And Toshiba Talking To Merge Their Cellphone Business To Be Japan #2
- Fujitsu PR denied Nikkei’s report
- Aucfan Opens Chinese Version Of Their Auction Vertical Search – Aucfan China [Chinese]
- Mixi Voice Adds Twitter Integration Feature, Passed 100 million Chirps
- Neo Tamago Kake Gohan Generator
- Gizmodo US Blocks Japanese Readers. Force Redirect To Japanese version.
- Softbank Mobile iPhone App Had Security Problem, CTO Showed Ignorance On Twitter
- Cookpad Doubles Sales And Profit
- New Japanese Twitter Meme “Naruhodo 4ji ja ne-no”(= Yes, it’s 4 o’clock) – automatic tweeting service for it
- Nikkei Shimbun Frontpage Says Amazon’s Cloud and Yahoo! Japan’s Cloud Will Start Soon In Japan
- @yoshiori’s Wedding Party In IT Conference Style – Google App Engine/PayPal/JSON API/etc. – It’s announce
- Twitter Paid J/E Translation Service SekaiNow Launches – via Markezine
- Hatena Starts “Sponsored Bookmarks”, Initially With Oracle And Two Others
- Ustream Senior Evangelist Told How Ustream Is Doing In Japan
