2009-10
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Taiwan's Far EasTone Starts Distributing Japanese Manga For Cellphone Users
Tokyo-based digital content distributor Bitway[J] started distributing popular Japanese manga series today to handsets of Taiwanese cellphone operator Far EasTone Telecommunications[C]. The …
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"Koe-tan", A Free iPhone Voice Search App For Public Transit In Tokyo
Tokyo-based Internet ad agency Traffic Gate[J] and U.K.- and Silicon Valley-based speech recognition technology developer Novauris Technology jointly released an iPhone/iPod touch app allowing you to …
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Mixi Adds New Friends-Making Feature For Shy Japanese
Mixi, Japan’s largest social network service, introduced a new feature around Mai-Miku(=My Mixi, my friends) management, called My List. Your new “My List” is completely private for …
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Japanese Mobile Biz Entrepreneurs To Visit Silicon Valley To Meet Potential Tech Start-ups
Inspired by Geeks On A Plane that was organized by Founder Fund co-founder Dave McClure and took 50 Silicon Valley tech geeks to Japan, Korea and Mainland China to meet up with Asian friends last …
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Cellphone To Check Your Golf Swing
Fujitsu announced that Hosei University and they developed a technology to sense your body’s movement during golf swing by an equipped cellphone on your waist. The application will be bundled on …
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WebCam: Tokyo's New Landmark Is Currently Under Construction
Japanese terrestrial TV transmitting is set to completely turn to digital on July 24th of 2011. Here in Tokyo, all TV signals are currently being transmitted from the top of Tokyo Tower (332.5 meters …
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Japan's First Twitter Novel Book Is On The Way
A paper book named “Twitter Shousetsu - 140 ji no Monogatari”(Twitter Novels - 140 Letters Stories) is to be published at the beginning of next month, announced by one of ten professional …
