2009-05
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One Month Long Closing Of Alumni SNS Incites Anxiety About Personal Data Leak Of 3.5M Users
A Nagasaki headquartered SNS focusing on connecting classmates that you used to be together with has been closed since early May, which incites its 3.5 million users about possible personal data leak …
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Japanese Manga/Anime: Simulcast and Same Day Release On Two Sides Of The Pacific
This coming Sunday, Toei Animation, Shueisha[J] and Fuji-TV will start broadcast the popular Japanese TV animation series “One Piece” on the Internet for North American audience, in …
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Is It For Monitoring Your Performance, Or Preventing You From Adult Disease?
NTT DoCoMo announced today it would launch a new service providing corporate users with health advisory for preventing their employees from adult disease. If a corporate user applies for the service, …
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Earn Points In Mobile Game, Plant Trees In Chinese Desert
On Wednesday, Two Tokyo-based mobile tech start-ups Ceres[J] and Orso[J] jointly launched a forest growing mobile game called “Morippy”. In the game a user can virtually grow a forest by …
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NTT pumps $470 million into cloud computing by 2012
It seems Japan is getting more serious as far as cloud computing adoption is concerned. Nippon Telegraph and Telephone, better known as NTT, is planning to invest about $470 million into cloud …
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NTT DoCoMo To Start Cellphone Banking Service, While KDDI Runs A Year Ahead
NTT DoCoMo and Mizuho Bank are reportedly planning to launch a micro payment banking service using cellphone handsets. By using the bank agent system that permits non-financial companies to deal with …
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Japan's No.1 TV web portal acTVila tops 1 million subscribers
It took 28 months, but now it has happened. Japan’s answer of sorts to American video platform Hulu, a content-on-demand service called acTVila, has racked up one million subscribers [JP, PDF]. …
