June 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Continued from (Part 1)
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- Gree Employee Got Support 90% of Smartphone Purchase Cost
- Tweetmeme Adds Japanese Localization [En] - awful Japanese though
- Fujitsu-Toshiba Cellphone Alliance Officially Acknowledged
- Writers and editors jointly to release an e-book without publisher and dealer.
- Sakura Internet To Open Stadium Sized Data Centre In Hokkaido, release
- Fenrir's iPhone 2-channel Viewer Supports Better Ascii-Arts Display
- Recruit Releases Virtual Mobile Campus Dating Game For Girls. release
- Face Recognizing Digital Signage Starts At 20 Stations In Tokyo - technology like U.S. Trumedia
- Baidu holds UnNatural Language Processing Contest
- Refridgerator Talking Gadget
- Rube Goldberg-Twitter Promotion By Shochu(Another Japanese Alchol) Company - movie
- Coca Cola Japan To Introduce Vending Machine With 46inch Touch Panel LCD
- Virtual Internet Diva Hatsune Miku Comes To An Arcade Game By Sega
- Recruit And ex-pro-wrestler Antonio Inoki To Run Twitter Toast Campaign For Guiness Record - It did not reach the record. Instead, World Cup tweets did
- Slashdot Japan Discusses That iPhone 4's Retina Display Is Not The World Highest Density, Not At All - Japan already had that level cellphone in 2006
- Over 1,000 People Lined Up At Three Stores for an Anime Porn Game In Midnight Akihabara - much longer than the one for iPhone 4 at Ginza or Omotesando
- Asahi.com Changes Background Blue To Root World Cup Soccer - now it's back to regular white
- Yahoo! Japan Pointed Out 26.5 Billion Yen Unpaid Tax - WSJ [En], Reuter
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