2009-09
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Japan's No. 2 Mobile Social Gaming GREE Sues No. 1 DeNA (Mobage-town) Over Fishing Game
Bad blood in Japan’s mobile social gaming scene: The country’s second biggest company in that area, GREE [JP, Asiajin articles], has filed a lawsuit in the Tokyo District Court today, …
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The First Mixi Appli Is Blamed And Stopped As Discriminatory
Mixi, the biggest social network service in Japan, started their OpenSocial compliant application platform Mixi Appli officially opened to every Mixi user on PC on last month. Mixi Appli Mobile is …
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Google Japan's In-Train Ads Asks Cellphone Users To Search By "Google"
In Tokyo Metro train, I noticed small ads by Google Japan. The ads are for Google Mobile Search promotion. This one suggests to search Google by “Shibuya Movie” when you want to know if …
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Mi-in sigye: Korean compny offers Korean Hot-girl clock gadget similar with Bijin-tokei
Korea based company Megacoms[KR] offers clock gadget “Mi-in sigye” at Talkon. Mi-in means “beautiful girl” in Korean. It shows ramdom street-casted 3 hundred Korean girls …
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Uroboros Programming With 11 Programming Languages
A Japanese blogger Ku-ma-me made an interesting program code. It is a variation of Quine program. The Ruby code generates Python code, which generates Perl code, which generates Lua code, which …
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Japanese Comics Target The World's Second Most Populated Market
An NTT group company in mobile content development, NTT Solmare, and Kyoto-based mobile content developer Zero-Sum started distributing Japanese comic titles for cellphone users in India last Friday. …
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In Japan, Freemium Works. Nico Nico Douga paid member user base passes 500k
One of the big differences between the web in Japan versus America or Europe is the way sites are being monetized. Generally speaking, the level of acceptance for the freemium model seems to be …
