The Japanese subsidiary of a Korean online game service operator, NHN Japan[J] announced at the briefing event held on Monday that they would enter the arena of social game business. The company’s game new platform enables to change the progress of games according to where/when you’re playing, how the weather around you is, and expects… Continue reading NHN Japan Shakes Hands With 70 Game Developers To Enter The Social Game App Business
Day: July 27, 2010
It’s Official Now. Google Announces Their Search Platform Provided To Yahoo! Japan
Google Asia Pacific and Japan vice president Daniel Alegre announced [J] on official Google Japan blog that Google’s search technology is again provided to Yahoo! Japan. According to the article, Yahoo! Japan uses Google’s search engine as a backend, is able to customize frontend in any way. Google emphasizes that Yahoo! Japan has freehand on… Continue reading It’s Official Now. Google Announces Their Search Platform Provided To Yahoo! Japan
Is Yahoo! Japan Switching To Google Search?
Wall Street Journal’s blog All Things Digital(ATD) reported that Yahoo! Japan is going to announce that they will use Google Search as its search backend, switching from their customized Yahoo! Search Technology(YST). At this point, there are no Japanese media reported this rumour, except Bloomberg Japanese [J] which just refers All Things Digital. Until more… Continue reading Is Yahoo! Japan Switching To Google Search?
Motorboat Art Zipping Up The Sea
A Japanese artist Suzuki Yasuhiro‘s [J] “Zipper Motorboat” is sailing at Setonai-sea art festival [J]. Tokyo-based modern art creator Suzuki, who made a small prototype in 2004 (Movie), who has been dreaming “to divide the sea by gigantic zipper”, made up the ride-able sized boat as a water taxi. # It is under trial operation… Continue reading Motorboat Art Zipping Up The Sea