Telecommunications Carriers Association with all 5 Japanese cellphone carriers NTT Docomo, KDDI au, Softbank Mobile, Wilcom and e-Access(who runs e-Mobile) issued release on December 21 [J], ask their users not to call or e-mail around and after the midnight of 2012’s new year’s eve. “Rabbit’s last, and dragon’s first request” line is from Chinese Zodiac,… Continue reading Japanese Carriers Begs Not To Use Cellphone For 2 Hours Around New Year’s Eve Midnight
Month: December 2011
Twitcmap – Twitter-based Masssive Comic Market Directory
Twitcmap [J], run by a illustration sharing community Tinami [J], is a web service to try to make a huge map of the world’s largest self-publishing comic fair “Comic Market” [J], which is held twice in a year in Tokyo, in a user-generated style with utilizing Twitter. Comic Market official says that there are over… Continue reading Twitcmap – Twitter-based Masssive Comic Market Directory
Livestar Securities Erased All Database By Human-caused Mistake, Orders Went Away
Livestar Securities Co., Ltd., a Japanese online brokerage service issued a released to apologize its trouble started around 10 a.m., during trading time on December 27. Livestar Securities web transaction service was completely inaccessible over 4 hours from 10 a.m. to 2:05 p.m. In their announcement, the trouble was caused by an outsourced company removing… Continue reading Livestar Securities Erased All Database By Human-caused Mistake, Orders Went Away
Ascii-Art Translated To English By 2-Channelers
SOme 2-channel users tried to translate captions of popular ascii-art, drawing by letters they often post on 2-channel. ,-､ ,.-､ ./:::::＼ ／::::::ヽ /::::::::::::;ゝ–──– ､._/::::::::::::::| /,.-‐””´ ＼:::::::::::| ／ ヽ､::::| / ヽ| l l .| ● | Umm…. l , , , ● l ` ､ (_人__丿 ､､､ … Continue reading Ascii-Art Translated To English By 2-Channelers
Rakuten’s Virtual Currency Claimed To Be Stolen And Used For Online Game Nexon
There have been consumers complaining that their Rakuten Super Point, virtual currency circulated in Japan’s largest online shopping mall Rakuten Ichiba and its affiliated services, had been disappeared, the record said that they had spend it on online game service Nexon. There are already over 100 Rakuten users reported to Rakuten that their points were… Continue reading Rakuten’s Virtual Currency Claimed To Be Stolen And Used For Online Game Nexon
10 Year Lasting LED Bulb Commercial
Toshiba’s new TV ad for its LED bulb depicts a life of Japanese 10 years. thanks @tmiz
Anti-Sleep Driver’s Sheet “Sleep Buster” Comes In February, Warn You 10 Minutes Before Falling Asleep
Tokyo-based Juki Corporation is going to sell an anti-sleep system “Sleep Buster” for driver in 157,500 yen (US$2,000) in February 2012. The product keeps collecting a biological signals in the driver’s heartbeat rate and pulse wave sensor, which are built into the driver’s seat, shows seven levels (concentration, relaxation, distraction, fatigue, drowsiness, physical deconditioning, etc.)… Continue reading Anti-Sleep Driver’s Sheet “Sleep Buster” Comes In February, Warn You 10 Minutes Before Falling Asleep
Ameba Gets Security Attack – 50,000 Users Unregistered From The Service
Cyber Agent’s Ameba, one of Japan’s largest blogging service with thousands of celebrity blogs and virtual community around Ameba Pigg, announced on its staff blog [J] that Ameba services got illegal access, and some of its users are seeing trouble that they can not log in and look withdrawn the service since December 24 night.… Continue reading Ameba Gets Security Attack – 50,000 Users Unregistered From The Service
Japan’s Web News Week 50
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. Japanese Facebook Users By Prefectures via @tokuriki – 1/5 populartion in Tokyo. around 2% countrysides – It’s an urban social network in Japan Luna Luna Releases Chinese/English Service For Taiwan –… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 50
Follow-up Of The Social Networking Column On The Japan Times
This morning column 2011: The year when Japan went global over social networking on The Japan Times, both on paper and online, Japanese English-language newspaper is a monthly tech column brought by Asiajin. As it is for newspaper, there are not enough space to show the references. I leave the links here from my writing… Continue reading Follow-up Of The Social Networking Column On The Japan Times