2011-03
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Yahoo! Mobage Passes 3 Million Users In 5 Months, Facebook Falls Down To 6th Position
Yahoo! Mobage [J], a joint PC social game platform by two Japanese web gorillas Yahoo! Japan and DeNA, announced [J] that the number of their users passed over three million in 5 months since its …
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Coca Cola Japan's Facebook Promotion App Stopped Two Days
Coca Cola Japan’s Coca Cola Park [J] is one of the most successful Facebook promotion is Japan. The original promotion site, which supports both Facebook and Mixi, embraces 10 million members, …
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Kawaii Security - Over 30 Computer Virus Personified In Japanese Security Book
It is understandable to make your favorite web services drawn as characters, but how about internet viruses? A Japanese publisher Sansai Books started selling a security book “Kawaii …
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Amazon Cloud Makes Landing On Tokyo, Japan
Amazon Web Services announced on March 2 that they had added a Tokyo data center as its 5th in the world, 2nd in Asia after Singapore. Almost all of Amazon Web Services except Elastic MapReduce, …
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What New iPad2 Smart Cover Reminds Japanese - Bath Tub Lid
Apple’s new iPad2 announcement was followed by a lot of coverage, so I do not have much to add from Japan. A funny thing happened in Japanese web was about their newly-introduced official …
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Steply: A HK-made Photo Sharing App Attracts iPhone Users, Especially In Asia
Last August, I was invited to attend Startup Saturday, a Hong Kong’s first ever remarkable tech start-up event, by Takeshi Hirano, the editor and writer for TechCrunch Japan, during his …
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Using Your Smartphone Camera To Count Calories
We’ve come across a service by NTT Communications tentatively called “Health Enhancement Assist Service” [J], which unlike its name, is an incredibly interesting little innovation …
