2011-02
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January 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 3)
Continued from (Part 2). Last part of January news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Akihabara Free-Of-Vehicle Sunday Held …
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Clwit Develops Interactive Infomercial Widget That Will Never Bore E-Shoppers
Clwit[J], a Tokyo-based company developing social web services and Internet security countermeasures, announced it would start an e-commerce platform using Ustream in April. It allows you to …
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Domino Pizza Hansome Deliverer Voting Campaign Rigged By 2-Channellers
It was January 14th when Domino Pizza Japan started three weeks customers-involved web campaign “Ikemen Domino 25 Contest”. The word “Ikemen” is a Japanese slang which means a …
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How Japanese Over Thirty Feel NEC's Joint Venture With Lenovo
A week ago, China’s Lenovo and Japan’s top-shared PC vendor NEC announced to merge their PC business and to establish a joint venture company. Lenovo and NEC say they will create a joint …
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Toyota's Marketing Arm To Hold Social App Contest And Cheer Motor Industry
Toyota Marketing Japan(TMJ)[J], a 100% subsidiary of Toyota Motor Corporation, announced it would have a contest on ideas of new apps integrating social network platforms which especially intend to …
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Japan's No.1 Social Network - Gree And Mobage Town Competes
At the beginning of February, two of Japanese social networking giants, Gree and DeNA(Mobage Town company) released quarterly financial reports. Gree’s 2011-2Q report [J] showed its sales …
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A Glimpse Into the Home-screens of Japanese iOS Jailbreakers
And my personal favorite, via Insidears [J]
