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2009-08

• Microsoft Innovation Award 2009: Five Tech Start-ups Nominated As Finalists

  

  2009-08-31 · By Masaru IKEDA AR Augmented Reality Link Knowledge Little Island Magic Cube One Be Real Narrators San San Sky Fish Sokkly Trust Delete Wall Through

  Microsoft announced the finalists of Microsoft Innovation Award 2009 last week, and there were a judging committee for the award at the company’s annual conference for system engineers in …

• CJIC2009: Internet-Enabled Home Appliances Come Together To Foresee Our Future

  

  2009-08-29 · By Masaru IKEDA Cerevo CJIC CNET Japan Innovation Conference FreeBit iPhone Panasonic Sony

  Today at Roppongi Hills, a skyscraper located in the heart of Tokyo, CNET Japan[J] held an annual tech conference called CJIC 2009 (CNET Japan Innovation Conference) where two tech-startups, …

• Sharp's Pocket-sized netPC: Ten Hour Lifetime Gives You No Fear About Dead Battery

  

  2009-08-28 · By Masaru IKEDA NetWalker Sharp

  On Thursday, Sharp introduced a brand new pocket-sized netPC terminal named “NetWalker[J]”, which is expected to go on sale in late September for USD460 each (estimated street price). It …

• Mixi Finally Shed 'Beta' With Mixi Appli

  

  2009-08-26 · By Akky Akimoto application platform Beta Honda JT Konami Mixi Mixi Appli Nike Nikon OpenSocial Recruit RockYou RockYou Asia Sony Yahoo! Japan

  Mixi [J] (Asiajin articles), the biggest social network service in Japan, starts their OpenSocial compliant application platform Mixi Appli officially opened to every Mixi user on PC. Mixi Appli …

• Virtual Singer Application Vocaloid Played Her First "Live" for 25,000 Fans

  2009-08-25 · By Akky Akimoto anime Concert Hatsune Miku live Miku Hatsune Nico Nico Douga Perfume Saitama virtual character vocaloid

  One of Japan’s most popular video sharing Nico Nico Douga’s driving force in its early stage, Miku Hatsune, a virtual girl character attached to a PC application Vocaloid performed her …

• Event Wrap-up: 400+ Geeks Applaud Web Innovators At WISH2009

  

  2009-08-22 · By Masaru IKEDA 100shiki.com 30 min. ActionPad Agile Media Network Akky AKIMOTO Carwings Cerevo Conit Dressphile Gen Taguchi Hiroshi Nishi Joker Racer Kentaro Hashimoto Kokuban.in lang-8 Masao Ito Motoaki Tanigo Motohiko Tokuriki Nissan San San Sony Bank Takuma Iwasa User Local WISH2009 xtel Yonda4 Yondayo Yoshinori Munehara Yoski Akamatsu Youyou Ki Yuichiro Katsumoto

  More than 400 Internet users joined the event on Friday evening in Tokyo. Tokyo-based blog marketing agency Agile Media Network (AMN)[J] held Japan’s first conference having a number of tech …

• Live Event: WISH2009 Is Just Ahead

  

  2009-08-21 · By Masaru IKEDA Agile Media Network Motohiko Tokuriki WISH2009

  As we reported here on Asiajin last week, Japan’s web industry’s showcase event in mid-summer, WISH2009 will be held in Tokyo today. Live streamcast starts at 7pm J.S.T. or 10am U.T.C. …