Continued from (Part 1). Middle part of October news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 3)
Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.
- Female Pro-Shogi Player Defeated By Computer First In History
- A blogger’s report on Gree New Office At Roppongi Hills
- TBS Opens Facebook Fan page, First Among Japanese TV Stations
- NTT’s TOB Against South African Company Dimension Data Completed
- Hondas Happy Fit Twitter Campaign
- Mobage Town Coca Cola Joint PR Campaign
- JT Canned Coffee Promotion For e-Manga For Cellphone
- Docomo’s Network Gardening Sensor [En]
- MovaTwitter’s Hiring Page – funny idea to reach more people
- ITMedia takes up the recent Facebook buzz in Japan – followed our article [En]
- Nico Nico Douga Premium(Paid) Member Passed One Million
- Android Moe-Voice Calculator via ITMedia
- KDDI au’s “Forbidden App” For Next Smartphones Is Skype
- Gumi Funded A Few Million Dollars From Gree [TCJ]
- Shibuya-based mobile app developer Crazyworks introduced a prototype of an open e-comic distribution platform for the Android – A web-service packs your zip file of images into Android app
- Oracle Japan Is Welcoming Its 4th Company Dog Candy
- Mash-Pumpkin Tutankhamen On Cookpad via @mahihi
- Netafull Coupons Launches. The same backend as 100shiki coupon by Cobo. Flash coupon under famous blogger brands
- Microblog Mogomogo To Shut Down
- MyGengo partners with Six Apart.
- Hatena Land Terminated In Two Weeks. Some rumor that Nintendo is not satisfied the kids social network’s safeness quality.
- Dentsu To Run AR Ad On Yomiuri Shimbun
- TBS Confirms Official Japanese Spelling Is フェイスブック With Facebook. not フェースブック.
- Japanese Net Jargons Collected From 2-channel and Nico Nico Douga. pdf via Otsune’s bookmark
- ComiPo – Manga Authoring Tool For Bad Painters [En]
- Tweets Reciter Tsuimaru Movie by @jetdaisuke – The gadget will be shipped in Feb 2011 by Takara. can be pre-ordered on Amazon Japan already
- Another Twitter reading gadget Charatter – released in November
- Technology Makes Candy Taste Cider
- NHK To Animates “If a manager girl of high school baseball team read Peter Drucker’s management book”
- Real Blind Dating Project Llove In The Dark – matchmaking event by shutting down your visual perception
- Skype-KDDI au Alliance Officially Announced. KDDI release
- Social Media Consultant/Blogger Harada Left Arcarna CEO. Arcarna Changed Name
- Gree Tightens Filtering For Minority. More censoring. Friend request for under-18 is now fixed prepared text. Users unable to change DOB.
- Recruit Media Technology Lab to launch Nijibox for accelerating their social app development.
- Japan’s Listed Companies Flash Usage Research by Goga
- [New Meme] A New PS3/XBox360 Game El Shaddai Trailer Buzzed On Nico Nico Douga, 200 Mash-up Made, Some Are Played Over Million Times. Very hard to explain in English.
- Rakuten China Opens
- IP radio simulcast service Radiko will be incorporating.
- Honda Invented Two Black Triangle Marks On Car Windscreen Reduces Accidents In Narrow Roads
- Rakuten requested the Fair Trade Commission to investigate possible violation of the antitrust act over the Google-Yahoo Japan partnership.
- Free Cellphone Flash Game Themes 33 Chilean Miners
- iPhone has 70% of the Japanese smartphone market – and the number of smartphone users is 1/10 of all cellphone (same or more smart but non U.S. OS) users
- DeNA Sells Mobile Fashion Mall Mobakore(mbkr.jp) to Senshukai, mail order company listed on TSE first section, shared 49% of Mobakore
- Kyabakura social game got 5 million users.
- A Japanese Caused Massive Twitter Rainbow XSS Attacks Got T-Shirt From Twitter by reporting 14 XSS vulnerabilities and other security holes, he writes
- Baidu Japan Tieba’s Mobile Version
- Japanese Q&A Service OKWave Releases Facebook Version Arigato In 13 Languages via Markezine
Japanese chess is more complex for computers as it lets players reuse captured units.
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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