2010-02
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Social Application Forum: Made-in-Japan apps for the world
The recession, almost no IPOs, structural shortcomings, not enough hot startups to invest in: The Japanese venture capital industry is in a critical situation. The current state of affairs forces …
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Ig-Nobel-Prized Dog Translator BowLingual Finally Hits iPhone In Summer
Real time speech translation is the hot topic in last few days because of Google’s speech-to-speech translation development news and our reported Japanese government experiment. However, …
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[UPDATE] NHK World TV iPhone app: English TV programs on Japan in your pocket
UPDATE: Over 3G, make sure to wait 30-60 seconds for the stream data to get cached. After that, you’ll notice a significant jump in picture and audio quality. Japan has a plethora of TV …
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First Arrest by Perfect Dark, the Latest P2P Client
Different language, different application. That is not an exclusive phenomenon for web services like Facebook against Japanese big 3. The most popular P2P file sharing software on Japanese web is not …
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Real-time Translation Scouter Is Tested In Yamanashi, Japan
NICT(National Institute of Information and Communication Technology)’s Master Project, which stands for “Multi-lingual Advanced Speech and Text reseARch Project” are running an …
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Twitter Featuring Reality TV Show Begins In Japan
Japan’s legendary reality television show comes back with heavy usage of Twitter. Denpa Shonen 2010 (Denpa Shonen = Radio-Wave Boy), a successor program of the Susume Denpa Shonen, which started …
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Hummer Is Certified As "Eco Car" By Japanese Government
(photo by airgap) This may not be really web/IT for regular Asiajin, but fuel saving is supported by IT, and car and software may be hot topic around US Toyota incident, too (thanks for link Paul). …
