January 2012 – Page 2

Hatsune Miku’s Song Used For Google Chrome Commercial Tops At iTunes Japan Chart

“Tell Your World “, the song which is used for Google Chrome Promotional campaign of livetune feat. Hatsune Mike (初音ミク) tops at iTunes Japan among all categories. iTunes Japan chart at 19th January was following. The song was released in 18th January on iTunes Japan and right after the release, ranked top 10. On next day, it… Continue reading Hatsune Miku’s Song Used For Google Chrome Commercial Tops At iTunes Japan Chart

Privacy: How To Get Postal Address From Amazon Wish List

Amazon’s wish list is a list of products that you can publish on Amazon and ask people to purchase and send, a kind of donation feature. You are expected to be anonymous and still receive gifts, for example blog readers. On January 18, a Twitter user @mopetsune explained how you can extract anyone’s real address… Continue reading Privacy: How To Get Postal Address From Amazon Wish List

Goo Web Search Offers Useful Tweets On Search Results

NTT Resonant, a subsidiary of Japan’s largest telecommunication company NTT, who is running Goo, a search engine for PC, mobile (mainly for Docomo handsets) and smartphone, released [J] that Goo starts providing “Useful Tweets” on its search result page. The useful tweets showed on the search are selected by Goo’s original language analysis and scoring… Continue reading Goo Web Search Offers Useful Tweets On Search Results

Japanese Government Tries To Distribute Fake Pirated TV Drama Over P2P File Sharing Networks

Jpaan Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications(MIC) on January 20 released [J] that they are running an experiment to distribute files which name look like pirated TV drama videos from January 23 to 29. The fake drama videos will be distributed at least on two popular Japanese peer-to-peer file sharing tools/networks, Winny and Share. The… Continue reading Japanese Government Tries To Distribute Fake Pirated TV Drama Over P2P File Sharing Networks

10% Of Ministry Staff Open Suspicious Mail Attachment On Surprise Security Drill In Japan

Japan’s National Information Security Center reported on January 19 that the results of its security drill with 60,000 staff in 12 government organizations around malicious mail attachment [J, pdf]. According to the report, from October to December 2011, the center held security training to the 60,000 staff, then sent two mails which you could not… Continue reading 10% Of Ministry Staff Open Suspicious Mail Attachment On Surprise Security Drill In Japan

Japan’s #2 Carrier KDDI Pushing Ads On Android Notification Bar

KDDI, Japan’s second largest cellphone carrier is being blamed by users on Twitter [J] by displaying advertising on Android “as a system notification”. Here is a sample screenshot informs from KDDI to you “Diet by an App”, on the system notification. The Android app to insert such ads on the Android system notification is an… Continue reading Japan’s #2 Carrier KDDI Pushing Ads On Android Notification Bar

Japan’s Web News Week 3

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. Domino Pizza To Sell Net-Limited Heart Pizza For Valentine’s Day via MyNavi Sutelog – Judge If Given Tabelog Restaurant Reviews Are Suspicious By Stealth-Marketing – background [En] Face K-on Anime Shirts… Continue reading Japan’s Web News Week 3

Yahoo! Box: Yahoo! Japan’s Online Storage Service Tops One Million Users

As the country’s biggest website, Yahoo Japan is constantly rolling out new products like mobile apps, social networking services or games. Some of them fail, and some of them turn out to be successful: Yahoo Box!, the online storage solution Yahoo Japan launched in October, belongs to the latter group. The company pushed out a… Continue reading Yahoo! Box: Yahoo! Japan’s Online Storage Service Tops One Million Users