Keio University SFC (Shonan Fujisawa Campus), known as a technology hub for Japan’s Internet community in academic field, had a two-day event called Open Research Forum 2010[J] last week, where 142 research teams showcased their development results and works. As one of them, “Densha Now” is a third-party Twitter app that shows you tweets by… Continue reading Play Tag, Sharing Tweets Among Train Passengers – Keio Students Unveil Unique Social Apps At Their Showcase Event
Day: November 27, 2010
ex-Google Japan President Starts A New Company Alex
Koichiro Tsujino, who served as Google Japan’s president, which was an exceptional position in Google, resigned this April, has just begun his new venture, Alex [J]. On the Alex’s board member, there is an interesting name, ex-Sony CEO Nobuyuki Idei (cf. Forbes). Tsujino led VAIO and other products in Sony before Google. On the new… Continue reading ex-Google Japan President Starts A New Company Alex
November 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Continued from (Part 1). Middle part of November news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 3) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. DeNA Invests And Coworks For 3D Contents On Smartphone Ustream suicide 2-channel and Sankei had reported now on Telegraph(UK) [En] Bilcom President Talks On… Continue reading November 2010 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Facebook Japan Covered By Japanese TV First Time
November 9th, small hour of the morning on NTV, one of the largest commercial TV key station, broadcast a program featuring Facebook Japan office first time ever. The “IT information” program called iCon, was aired from 1:29 a.m. to 1:59 a.m. (usually described 25:29-25:59 on the day before in Japan). NTV published the edited version… Continue reading Facebook Japan Covered By Japanese TV First Time