This week’s Japanese Web/IT related news which we did not write as a dedicated article.

Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated.

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  “Will you make a baby with me?” advertising truck in Akihabara street

  

  via 2ch News Flash Vip Blog

• Tag With Virtual Mini Around Tokyo – Winner Takes A Real Mini Coupe via Noma no Shiwaza

• I/O Data Announces PC TV Tuner Supports Nico Nico Jikkyo(livestream) – you may overlay Nico Nico users comments on TV program
• Yahoo! Japan Search Result Now Shows Train Delay Situation Directly – Y!J also begins measurement conversion like Google Search
• Mixi Nengajou(=new year’s day greeting card) Supports Smartphone, Collaborative Card-Making With Social Friends This Year
• Docomo And Recruit To Start A New Coupon Service Utilizing e-Money iD Next Spring, by Cnet Japan
• Hatena Bookmark Testing New Version
• Kayac Releases Smartphone Transportation Game “Go Go Cargo” For North America
• Real Mario Fan Movies In Kanagawa And Kagoshima

• Tokyo Turkish Restaurant Arguing With Tabelog On Existence Of Word-of-mouth Manipulation Service For Paid Owners Offered By Tabelog’s Agents via DigiMaga
• Yahoo! Shopping Introduces Cellphone Payment With KDDI au via Yahoo! Japan official blog – starting with 1,437 out of 20,625 shops, you may purchase online if you have au cellphone/smartphone
• Hand-warming USB Mouse
• Dentsu Announces 2011′s Hot Products Ranking – TheNextWeb wrote about top 20 out of 30 [En]
• ex-Olympus CEO Michael Woodford’s Press Conference Was Aired On Nico Nico Douga
• Rakuten Introduces “Shop Together” Feature Based On Buy.com Technology They Bought via Cnet Japan
• Online Video Service Actvilla Starts Offering Popular Programs From Cellphone Video Service BeeTV In Full HD Resolution

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Tags: Japan IT Links by Akky Akimoto
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Dai Nippon Printing Co., Ltd. [J], one of the nation’s and the world’s largest printing companies, listed on Tokyo Stock Exchange First Section (code:7912), has released the Windows Phone “beard simulation” application “Mote♥Hige” (have a beard), where you can easily grow a beard onto a photographic portrait.  Download is free [J].

“Mote♥Hige” is a simulator application that can easily grow beards just by reading portrait photos from your camera album.  It uses the Increment Company’s face recognition API detectFace();, and it combines 6 types of beard with your photo portrait and allows you to adjust the “growth condition.”  In addition it also supports saving bearded photos into your album or posting them on Facebook.

Translation authorized by VSMedia

Tags: News, Social game by Chiho Komoriya
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