2011-09
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August 2011 Japan IT Links (Part 2)
Continued from (Part 1). Middle part of August news which we did not write as a dedicated article. Continued to (Part 3) Referred pages are all in Japanese, unless otherwise stated. Mid-August news …
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Mobage Company DeNA Rumored To Buy A Pro Baseball Team, PR Denied
According to Sankei Sports [J], DeNA, known by running a big social gaming network Mobage, is one the list of companies who are talking with TBS, a Japanese TV network company who owns Yokohama Bay …
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Tonchidot’s Face Recognition App “Smile Fever” Supported In English And Korean
Tonchidot has released the iPhone application “Smile Fever” v1.0.2 which now supports the English and Korean languages. “Smile Fever” is their first free iPhone application. Thanks to facial …
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Hulu Japan Starts - First International Extension
Hulu established its Tokyo subsidiary on August 10. On the announcement, the service launch in Japan was told “later this year”, but it seems they are speeding up. It took only 3 weeks …
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Mixi Launches Mixi Page
On August 31, Mixi announced its new feature, Mixi Page [J]. It is a feature to enable Mixi users to create semi-public web pages under Mixi’s domain. The pages have built-in communication …
