2008-10
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livedoor started "Geocities 2.0"
Japanese portal site livedoor announced today that they started a new free hosting service EDGE co. Lab. Developers/entrepreneurs can get hosted servers from livedoor and run their web service …
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Softbank Mobile to Release 1-seg TV tuner for iPhone
Softbank Mobile announced today to release 1-seg digital TV tuner device for iPhone in the middle of December. The 80-gram device provides the feature of TV over WiFi (converting TV signal received to …
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GMail supports Emoji for Japanese Cellphone
Official Google Blog (Japanese) announced [J] that their gmail on PC now became capable to send Emoji, emoticon-like letters supported by Japanese cellphones. (receiving emoji-mail from cellphone has …
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Sun and Recruit's Mashup Awards 4
On Sunday, 19th October, Mashup Awards 4 , Sun Microsystems Japan and Recruit’s [Recruit on Asiajin] web-service mashup development contest award ceremony was held at Recruit headoffice, next …
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Register for the New Context Conference 2008 in Tokyo (November 5-6) [UPDATE]
Canceling this year’s Web 2.0 Expo in Tokyo was considered a mild disappointment in the Japanese web world. But now it seems Digital Garage’s New Context Conference 2008 [J], a 2-day …
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Open Web Asia '08 - Video Report
Open Web Asia ‘08 started. I wrote here that WiFi connection worked well yesterday, yes exactly, the signal was strong enough, but I found I couldn’t get bandwidth enough to bring live …
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Asiajin news updates
There are some updates on the topics Asiajin reported recently. Let me write them shortly. Cyber-Maid becomes purchasable next week Cyber-Maid Augmented Reality was one of the most read article in …
