2010-02
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Yahoo! Auction Releases iPhone App
Yahoo! Auction, Japan No.1 auction website who had defeated eBay in 2002 (eBay now collaborates with Yahoo! Auction), expands [J] its frontend into growing smartphone segment with a free iPhone …
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Half Of Japanese Male iPhone Users Keep Their Japanese Cellphone
Nikkei BP Consulting and AdMob ran an online research to 1,000 Japanese iPhone users. The result [J] tells that 49.4% of Japanese Male iPhone Users have two or more cellphones. On the same research, …
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February 2010 Japan-IT Links (Part 1)
First half of February news which we did not write as a dedicated article. (follows to Part 2) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Another Japanese iPad on… iTunes! …
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Nikkei Officially Announced Its Digital Version With 4,000 Yen Per Month
As we reported the leaked info last month, Japan’s industrial newspaper Nikkei Shimbun (Nikkei is abbreviation of Nihon Keizai = Japan’s economy) is to begin their paid online version …
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The First Twitter Drama Starts In April In Japan
Fuji Television (Fuji TV), a Tokyo key station who has nationwide network, announced their coming Spring drama program which features Twitter. The drama “Sunao ni Narenakute” [J], which …
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Planned In Japan: e-Books Only Downloadable At... Bookstore?
Kowa Computer Co. Ltd., who have been providing book publishing system for industry, revealed that they are to enter downloadable e-book market with their own smart-phone-sized device. The unique …
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Internet Ads Overtakes Newspaper To Become No.2 After Television In Japan
Dentsu Inc., Japan’s largest advertisement agency, published its annual Japan’s advertising expenditures report. [J, pdf] According to the report, Dentsu estimates that advertisers spend …
