Following Google’s Japanese IME (input method editor) newly introduced in the beginning of this month, the Japanese subsidiary of China’s largest website search portal Baidu[C] also introduced a new one for our language, which is named Baidu Type[J] (in beta). By referring to the Japanese input method which has been adopted for cellphone handsets, Baidu… Continue reading New Japanese IME Has Come From The Origin Of Chinese Characters
Month: December 2009
Chinese Domain Name Authority Closes 699 Accounts In 4 Days; No More Individual Registration
On Monday, CNNIC (China Internet Network Information Center) suspended 699 .cn domain names which seemed to be inappropriately used for porn websites just in four days since they had set up a hot line to receive anonymous reports about the malicious use of domain names. And then, the authority suspended to accept new .cn domain… Continue reading Chinese Domain Name Authority Closes 699 Accounts In 4 Days; No More Individual Registration
Yahoo China Closes Online Photo Album, Users Are Ready To Sue Against It
Yahoo! China[C] shut down its online photo album service last Thursday, and it hit tens of thousands of Chinese people using the service. The users are blaming and demanding to get their photos back to their hands, Beijing Daily[C] reports. The service was believed to be provided permanently for free, but it was closed… Continue reading Yahoo China Closes Online Photo Album, Users Are Ready To Sue Against It
Send a Package via Email Address
SoftBank Frameworks, logistics provider and a subsidiary of SoftBank, announced a new service where you can send packages without knowing the recipient’s physical address. The service is called Meru-Ado Takuhaibin (Email Address Door-to-Door Delivery). To send a package, sender would fill out an online form with the email address of the recipient. The service will… Continue reading Send a Package via Email Address
Google Search yahoo.co.jp Returned Suspicious Site
As reported on Google Help Forum in Japanese [J], some Japanese search users who searched on Google by “yahoo.co.jp” was taken to a site which has a strange domain “twakuwakuland.info”, but shows the totally same contents as Yahoo! Japan. People usually search Yahoo! Japan by “Yahoo” but not “yahoo.co.jp” (well, I don’t know why people… Continue reading Google Search yahoo.co.jp Returned Suspicious Site
Bijin-Tokei Gots Inevitable Follower – Adult Version
We covered the first Bijin-Tokei (Beautiful Girls Clock, if you are to take Japanese language exam, “Bijin-Dokei”), every single of 1440 minutes has a different photo with a beautiful girl hanging the time on a blackboard, on their launch. It got huge attentions and has been producing a lot of variants, both by themselves (Binan… Continue reading Bijin-Tokei Gots Inevitable Follower – Adult Version
Japan’s IVP Invests $1.5 million In Chinese Social Gaming Company Rekoo
One of Japan’s most famous independent venture capital firms, Infinity Venture Partners (IVP), seems to have a big interest in the social gaming space and China. IVP already has a number of startups with this profile in their portfolio, and today it came to light they’ll intensify the relationship with one of them through a… Continue reading Japan’s IVP Invests $1.5 million In Chinese Social Gaming Company Rekoo
ESPer2009: Exploratory IT Engineers And Developers Wrap-up This Year’s Japanese Tech Scene
Since 2000, IPA, a Japanese governmental arm in charge of promoting IT industry, has been running an annual contest to find young computer engineers who have developed services and technologies that we’ve never experienced, which is titled the Exploratory IT human resources project a.k.a. MITOH. There was an year-end alumni meet-up where the entrepreneurs who… Continue reading ESPer2009: Exploratory IT Engineers And Developers Wrap-up This Year’s Japanese Tech Scene
The 7th and Final Bonen Kaigi
Daiya Hashimoto and 100shiki’s Gen Taguchi’s annual year end event Bounen Kaigi (Year-forgetting party+meeting) was held at Yahoo! Japan’s headoffice, Roppongi Midtown, Tokyo. This 7th anniversary, however, had been declared the last one. 2009 Ranking As always, the two hosts made their (personal) year ranking what impressed them in 2009. MovaTwitter (Asiajin): unofficial Twitter site… Continue reading The 7th and Final Bonen Kaigi
Taiwan’s Apple Daily: A New Style Of Making News Visible Gets The World’s Reputation
The world’s most successful professional golfer Tiger Woods is now facing adultery scandal. Taiwan’s gossip news media Apple Daily (owned by Hong Kong’s Nextmedia) made 3-D CG videos on his car crash and what might have happened. Some of the videos were put on YouTube and marked 2 million views in the last ten days.… Continue reading Taiwan’s Apple Daily: A New Style Of Making News Visible Gets The World’s Reputation