July 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 1)
Posted on July 20th, 2010 by Akky Akimoto
First half of July news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 2)
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- Groupon Clone Q:pod Occupies Yamanote-Line Train. Q:pod Is A Joint Venture By Pakureserve And Infinit Ventures
- Rakuten Releases Rakuten-IE8
- Tokyo Metropolitan Police Introduces The First Surveillance Camera Car By 160 Million Yen
- Google Japan’s Upper House Election Buzz Analysis
- Japan’s First Banana Vendor Machine [En]: follow-up article article. movie
- Akihabara Evangelion Coin Locker via @nagasawa144
- Japan KFC Opens New Generation Store With LED lights, Digital Signage, Non-Fried-Fried-Chicken
- CyberAgent Builds A Content Winner’s Avatar Room In Real Life via CNET Japan
- Pixiv’s Site Renewal Includes Microblogging Feature
- Sieg Jimin – A Liberal Democratic Party(Jimin-tou) Candidate Agitates Net Users And 2-Channelers In Nazi Style (which is a parody of Gundam character, but who is modeled after Hitler. “Sieg Jimin” starts around 5:33)
- Microsoft K.K. To Rename Itself With Japan Microsoft. Also plans to move to Shinagawa
- Baidu Japan President Chen Haiteng’s Seminer
- LovePlus+ Hijacks Nation-wide TV guide Magazine – LovePlus+ implements geolocation virtual prize system and some eager users are travelling around Japan for that.
- Docomo To Unlock Cellphone SIM Protection Next Spring
- NicoNico Douga Musical To Feature Ex-Livedoor CEO Takafumi Horie As A Main Actor
- Shizuoka Gundam Officially Finished Up
- Softbank Group’s Employees Meeting Held At Budokan Stadium for 2 days, Top Idol group SMAP Sang. Their owing pro baseball team Softbank Hawks’ replica uniform shirts are distributed.
- Bing Japanese Version Sheds Beta Label
- Japan’s Digital Book Market Size Was 57.4 Billion Yen In 2009
- Docomo To Get Into eBook Business
- Knowing Crippled Twitter API Performance On Twitter (Unofficial)
- Sexual Harrassing Akihabara Gender Fighting Game
- Nikkei Online Version Paid Subscribers Passed 70,000
- Japan Cabinet Office Announces Estimation Of Making National Dossier System as 610 Billion Yen
- Another Foursquare Clone Tou.ch Teasing
- JRA’s horserace game app gets sensation.
- Yahoo! Japan Updating More Than 10 Of Search Categories
- Even Williams Comes To See Japanese Users Again This Year
- Spending 100 Billion Yen In A Month… In A Cellphone Game
- Mobile Social Game You Can Work Menial Labor
- Japanese Groupon Clone List
- Fujitsu And Microsoft To Ally On Cloud Computing
- Sony ex-CEO Nobuyuki Idei Begins Twitter. Confirmed By Google Japan’s ex-CEO
- A Book To Instruct How To Create Twitter-Bot Published
- Naver Japan Grabs Image Search Provider Position Of NEC’s Biglobe Portal. Biglobe Introduced Naver’s Movie/Audio Search Since 2003
- CyberAgent Ameba(Blog and social services) Gets 10 Million Registered Users. The site for celebration
- Fukuoka-based collaboration drawing web service Cacoo is on NY Times education article [En]
- Microsoft’s Bing Official Launch Promotion Page
- Gree’s Stock Drops Sharply – Mitsubishi-UFJ-Morgan-Stanley Lowered Rating
- Following to massive parcel delivery delay [En], Japan Post Bank ATM Suffers Over 5 Hours Trouble Nationwide
- Livedoor’s Blog Media Blogos Puts Whole-car Ads On Yamate-line. Groupon clone Qpod also did it (I cannot find photos). The cost for that can be at least $100,000. In past, UQ WiMax, Google Japan did in that style for example.
- Softbank Masayoshi Son’s “We’ll do that” Tweets Are Listed And Progress Are Displayed
- This Week’s Weekly Diamond Featured Article Is “Twitter Marketing”
- Government Funding Mitou Youth Project Explained In Manga [pdf]. What is Mitou project? [En]
- Fast Retailing(Uniqlo) And Grameen Bank To Set Up Joint Venture [En]
- Docomo To Start Sp-mode To Cover Up Lack Of Regular Features On Smartphone via Internet Watch
If you want to know any specific news more, but unable to find them in other English blog/media, please let us know.
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